Our workshop today was harmony drug awareness. I expected it to be about how music influenced our emotions and that drugs can affect us in bad ways and music can be a pick you up. I was wrong.
After we first sat down, a man showed us some slides on how drugs can affect you mentally, and how it affects your family. He also showed us some clips of anti drug and smokings adverts. He told us about his story of drug and alcohol addiction, which was very sad, and how he got through it with help. He explained how you see the world when you have and addiction.
We got to look at Amy Whinehouses story, and Eminem, who have written songs about drugs. Other than that there wasn't much of a connection between when he talked about drugs, and talked about music. I did learn however how drugs mentally affect you and how to get help. But I didn't learn much about how music affects you and why the workshop was about music and drugs.
Towards the end of the day we had to write a rap song about drugs. I'm not much of a rapper and founds it difficult, but we did have a bit of a laugh trying to come up with lyrics. Also rap isn't my style of music. Then each of the groups sang their rap, which was quite funny.
At the very end of the day my legs were a bit stiff because all the workshop was just sitting down watching a slideshow from a projector. I didn't come out knowing much more than when I went in. He showed us lots of statistics but they all went straight through my head. I think a but more involvement with music and a but more interaction would have made this workshop more appealing. I hadn't planned on doing drugs in my lifetime anyway and I don't think having lots of knowledge on drugs will help me. But I do respect the man who did the workshop with us, he was very motivated and had shown us that if you do get into difficulty you can come out ok on the other side.
No comments:
Post a Comment