Sending the message!

On Sunday 28-03-09 an important manifestation about brain and smoking took place in Patra's University. This event was Marigoula Margariti's idea and started 3 years ago. Our school, Antirrio, participated with a theatrical play. The 3rd high school of Nafpaktos joined with a good performance. There was also a band, students who drew exciting pictures and students who worked on computer. The comments for our performance were very good. That's a big honour for us, because even though we are a small school we succeed and people liked our work.

The theatrical play that we took part in was about a student, Alex, who had recently started smoking. We showed people what happens to our body when we smoke.Students dressed up like different organs and made people realise that these organs die when we smoke. Finally Alex said no to smoking and decided to change his life. We sent people a message that they have to live their lives and say no to smoking.

Four months before the "big day" the students started practising. They practised a lot and in order to make the theatrical play better. Although they had to miss lessons ,the things that they learnt are as important as their lessons. They were not tired because they liked what they did, they were always in a good mood with a lot of desire. They had to make the costumes and the sceneries by themselves and they felt very happy because people liked it. Teachers gave all their energy to the students and helped them a lot.When the "big day" came everything was ready. The students were very anxious, but when they finished they were glad, because it was a success.

Students' creative ideas didn't stop there. They had the idea to make posters which showed,step by step,the way to stop smoking. These posters were given to smokers hoping to help them.

I think that children, students, teachers and people learned a lot that day and they'll remember it forever. We decide for ourselves NO SMOKING!!!

by Dimitra Konstantinou