Never, ever, again. [journal]

[kyrasantae]

[ref. Part 1 and Part 2]

Glad to not have been the only one traumatized by it. A couple of other first-years in the same role as myself had been quite visibly upset by it too — heard Jon had been almost in tears by the time he got back here that night. Kevin and Jon had planned to write a letter to ESS about how badly executed it was and stuff [Yeah, I'm sorry, but not even my parents, as trained registered nurses, for a living, work on a nurse to patient ratio of 1:25. I somehow don't think 1 sober monitor to 25 drunk kids (2 monitors to a bus) — or on some buses on the way back, where there was only one monitor, 1 to 50 — is legal under whatever licence we operate this.], but Kevin said they tossed the idea because they didn't want to gain the party-pooper reputation so soon. [I forgot to mention that Kevin, although jokingly, suggested that perhaps all sober monitors get counselling after their experience. If reality TV stars get professional counselling after their appearance, we should too. Our experience is comparably psychologically damaging.]

Now, these two very nice gentlemen are older than me — I think they're taking this as a second degree so they're already accustomed to campus life and such — and they were affected similarly severely.

I am not alone in this, then, although its effects were stronger on me because I've come straight from high school and have never witnessed people drinking to get drunk until then.

Don't misunderstand my views — they are result of my experience there, not beliefs that caused me to be dissatisfied there.

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Everyone has their different weaknesses.

[naruki-oni.livejournal.com]

What would traumatize me would be growing up in a culture that doesn't want to put this man (http://www.ifilm.com/viralvideo?ifilmid=2650343) behind bars. Perhaps we could switch places...

Trauma

[(Anonymous)]

I am not alone in this, then, although its effects were stronger on me because I've come straight from high school and have never witnessed people drinking to get drunk until then.

What I'd like to say about this is that I certainly didn't grow up not seeing people who drink just to get drunk. In fact, it's quite common in Finland. I suppose I wouldn't get traumas from that, even though controlling a crowd of 50 drunk college students sounds like something I wouldn't want to do.

-Venge

Re: Trauma

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

Although there were 25 partyers to a monitor, and two monitors to a bus, there were five buses, for a total of 250 drunk freaks. Of course there was also the bar staff, but being thrown into that kind of a situation as the first experience of what people do to party, is extremely stressing on the psyche (to me the most horrifying surprise was how 'pre-drunk' people had gotten themselves before they even went on the bus. Almost everyone on the bus had a bottle of hard liquor (which they madly had to either finish drinking or hide before they could get into the bar) or a heavily mixed drink/more liquor disguised by storing in a pop bottle or something. - I think that was the most traumatizing of all, firstly because it was a surprise and second of all because I couldn't avoid it by moving to the other side of the room since I had to be on the bus with them, sitting in the midst of it all.).