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My Life In My Senior Year Of High School

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One event that was lifechanging for me was my senior year of high school I decided to be a part of the Every 15 Minutes Program. This was a two-day program that included juniors and seniors to help prevent their peers from drinking and driving on the night of Prom. On the first day of this program, every fifteen minutes that passed on the clock, the intercom would come on throughout the entire school to announce that someone had “died”. This announcement would start with an introduction that read, “Every fifteen minutes someone dies due to a drinking and driving accident” and then they would say the name of the individual who has just died. After this took place, the grim reaper would go into the classroom, in which the student who had “died”, and he would state a beautiful introduction of that individual. The student would then put on a black and white mask and go into a classroom and hide out there for the rest of the school day. In the afternoon of the first day, the students who were apart of the Every Fifteen Minutes Program, including myself, reenacted the accident for the juniors and seniors down at the football field. Before everyone came out to watch the reenactment, the three other students involved in the car accident and myself had to put fake, sticky, red blood on our faces, hands, and arms to make it look like we were actually hurt and bleeding from the car accident. Then the four of us had to get into a wrecked, crushed up car that the school brought in from

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