Woah....School Lockdown

Today I finally experience a school LOCK DOWN!

There are an armed robber who was sighted within RPI premises. As a result, the school sent all students sms telling us not to leave the school building and to lock the doors and windows. When we received the message, Valerie and I were in our basic drawing class. It was quite interesting to see that the local students here were really quite chill about the whole thing. In fact, they started to talk about other such incidents in the past and complained about being confined to the classroom. In the end, the professor and students left the building before the lockdown was lifted.

It was really hard to even worry about the whole incident when eveyrone around seem to chill, so I just spent the extra 90 mins of lockdown on my drawing. While they were discussing, I was just quietly drawing away, occasionally picking up some jokes and giggling at them. Well the time spent on the drawing paid off since i was able to refine my work!

Apparently, lockdowns have happened before due to many different incidents. One was from a shooting near RPI premiseand apparently implicated a drug deal. One of my classmates from Texas mentioned that there was a school lockdown in middle school because a bull run free from a nearby farm! But well, it's texas! So while the discussions went on, there was sirens ringing form outside the class occacionally, and the PA system announcements that could hardly be deciphered from within the classrooms-since they asked us to lock the window. Well, the PA system runs OUTSIDE classrooms, so you see the problem?

In the end, Valerie and I left the building too because we were so hungry and also because we could see that outside the school building, students were already walking around. Haha, so we kind of hecked it. But thank God we're safe and sound!