Wednesday, April 13, 2011

It NEVER Gets Old!!


Today Daryl and I were excited to have the chance to speak at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn. When I first got the request I thought it to be a little much for us to be speaking for eight periods straight without taking any breaks in between but agreed to do it nonetheless because I know the importance of education. Once we got to the school and set a format where we both could speak during each period so that the students would be able to get both our points of view and save room for Q&A we knew that the event would go by easily. I know from speaking regularly that High School Students can be one of the most difficult groups to speak to because they like to talk and have side conversations. I hoped that these students wouldn’t be a group of talkative ones because I know that if you are talking then your not listening and I always feel that its important to listen if your being educated about anything that’s important.
Once the first group of students came in, we had a really great time speaking together and educating them from both points of view. This was Daryl's first time ever speaking in front of a lot of people and he really did well. I knew that he wouldn’t have a problem speaking because he has spoken on camera for interviews before and has been very well educated about HIV/AIDS for many years. By the end of the day, though we both were tired from speaking for eight periods, we knew that all the students as well as some of the staff at the high school now all had a much better idea of what HIV/AIDS was. We also knew that they were now equipped with the information they needed to know in order to protect them selves from becoming infected with HIV.
We both left the school today smiling because we know that if none of the 4,000 students we spoke to are HIV positive then they have no reason at all to become positive after today.
If we were called to a different school to do the same thing tomorrow, we would because to us educating... Oh It NEVER gets old!!

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