Over the weekend my parents and i went to the Bridge School Benefit Concert. It was quite the experience.
The Bridge School is a school for kids pre preschoolers though middle schoolers with severe disabilities. These students may be vary smart but they need help to express themselves. I am friends with a mom of a son with CP who goes there. I did not go to Bridge because I have mild CP. I had begged and begged my mom to go and we got the tickets on the lawn. We naively thought that would be ok.
It was not. When we got there, about an hour into the show, we went to the lawn; it was packed. There was no room to sit on the grass to watch the music we went so far up that we could not see the stage and I could not see the projector. I turned to my mom and said we could go home. My sensory stuff was not going well and I do not mean the noise. It smelled horrible from smoke and other drugs.
My mom took me back to the bottom of the hill where there were all these booths for food. I wanted to get a t shirt so we stood in line for one. I have a ATM card so I had to sign my name. The lady helping me says,
" YOU HAVE THE NICEST HANDWRITING I HAVE SEEN ALL NIGHT."
The irony of that statement is that I have CP and NLD aka poor find motor control. That gave my mom a chuckle. I took it as a compliment but I laughed to.
We then proceed to the parent booth where I met the twins of the lady who i knew from face book. ( They really should start playing it's a small world now). we then found some picnic tables and waited for my dad who stayed up on the lawn.
While we were waiting I got a churro, and my dad brought back some garlic fries while we listened to Carlos Santana shortly thereafter we left.
My thoughts I really liked the cause it was going to but disliked all the drugs. Next Year I think I will go to the dinner party and try to reserve seats near the stage. I really like watching the news reports that the school i watch them often enough that I can match names and faces. I hope I can meet all the kids sometimes or whose knows maybe I will work there down the line only time will tell.
1 comment:
Hi AZ.
Wow: 25 years of the Bridge School!
I don't think I would like the drugs either. They do seem to be part of a lot of music festivals/benefit concerts.
In the 1990s glowsticks became really big.
"The nicest handwriting I've seen all night".
Listening to the It's a small world tune.
Hope you do work at Bridge or have some connection there. It seems to be a wonderful community place.
(especially the transition and outreach functions of the organisation).
(Are they the sorts of places where every day is an open day? What about an internship for your course?)
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