Wednesday 4th November

Made it in today :) Although a bit tired now :(

Made it into college today, which was a good thing really as I met up with Richie who informed me we were going on a trip. He had received an email that it looks like no one else got to let us know to turn up early. Gradually people turned up and were told. In the email it said that we were all to meet up by 8.45 to have the register taken and to get on the bus that would take us to Glenrothes. It came to 9am and no one came, so we asked a passing member of staff what was happening. They said that the substitute tutor wasn't in today so we would have to "look after ourselves and behave", which was useful. We got on the bus and we went to a theatre in Glenrothes where we saw a production of "Stay Safe" which was generally watching clips from a presentation on a road traffic accident and the gradual stages of what happened next, during the intervals there was a member of an emergency service - paramedic, fireman etc, who gave a speech on what happened and in one case - the triage nurse - actually partially demonstrated how to insert a tube into a chest cavity when your lung has collapsed, as this is what had happened to one of the characters in the presentation. After this another speaker came on the stage, he was a father of a crash victim, the victim being his son, and he described the dreadful day of when his son was involved in a car accident, when he had finished his speech he called his son out onto the stage, the son, who is now in an automatic wheelchair due to being paralised, and is also unable to talk, came out and using a machine which allows him to communicate, told us about the accident and advised us that it isn't cool to show off in a car and to always wear a seatbelt. He also spoke about what his life was like before and after the accident, he spoke of playing football, enojoyed skiing holidays with his parents, but now everything has to be done for him as he now unable to do these things due to the accident.
When the show had finished we grouped up together to make sure we were all accounted for and got on the coach back to college. To make sure that tutors/student payroll knew we were here we all wrote our names and numbers on a piece of paper and handed it to a tutor in Media Space.