But moving on to the interesting and scary details of what happened today when my safe, always happy high school had a gun scare. It was right after my lunch in the middle of class the Principle came on over the intercom and annouced that we were having a "code red". (* the first sign to know that something was wrong*... my principle made the annoucement and she's never at school) Now a "code red" means that there is a crisis in the school, [i.e. guns, bombs, pyschos, listening to J-Lo sing...] so at first we all thought it was just a drill but then the principle just sounded way to scared that it started to make us all panic. So we kept thinking it might be a tornado watch but then the one thing that clicked in all of our minds was Columbine. For those who don't know, Columbine was in 1999 when two kids came to school and murdered students and then killed themselves. Even the thought of a gun will freak teachers out now.
But I guess at my little safe high school not to many people were worried. The students in my class were terrified.... for about a full minute and then they went on talking except for a few of my friends and I. We all started telling each other how much we loved everyone and I was so scared that my life would end right then, even though I had no idea what was going on. Well finally about 5 minutes later the "code red" was lifted and we were dismissed from class. In my next period (where gossip lives) I found out that a kid bought a gun to school! And he was planning on shooting some guy who had talked about his mom. No one even knows who the kid was but it's so scary to know and to think that right under my nose- in my school someone could have been killed. Thank God they got the kid before anything could happen. But again thats another reminder in my life that life could end any minute... any second just by the carelessness and cold heartedness from another person.
Never take life for granted folks. Take care of yourselves everyone and each other!
