Challenge Day 2010 - Be the Change

Wow. Challenge Day was truley amazing for me. I could feel love as soon as i walked into the gym. When we walked in through the tunnel of love {the teacher and other adults all dancing and cheering for us} it was amazing and fun and little akward butt it was cool. when i sat down i made sure i was sitting with my friends. I was just gunna hang with them all day and i didnt really have an open mind to anyone else. Then when Jennifer {one of the leaders} told us to go to the middle of the circle and high five 10 people i just tried to stay around the people i know. but as the day went on i found myself reaching out to people i wouldnt normally talk. I will admit the it was akward and weird at first but eventully i felt at home. I finnally felt like i belonged somewhere. We also did play a lot of games and it was alot of fun getting to know other people. Some of those people are people i see everyday and i didnt know anything about. Everything was just really eye opening for me and everyone really. Even the people that just went to get out of school for a day got a lot out of it. Any time we really understood what someone was saying or if we wanted to show them our love we would raise our hand in the air and make the sign language sign for I LOVE YOU and it was amazing to see all the love. We also did a thing called Cross the Line, everyone stood on the line and Jennifer would say "If you've ever.....please cross the line now" and it was really interesting to see who cossed the line. it was amazing to me that sooooo many people in our school are going throo all the same things, and there was so much love and compassion from everyone. People you didnt even know would hug you when you cried and you felt like they understood what you were going through.now that we all learned how other people feel i really hope that we all continue to be friends with all the people we met and we dont judge people anymore and we all just get along and live life to the fullest.  I would definetky reccomend that everyone goes at least once while they are at FHHS and has this amazing expience like i did.