Not much has been going on here lately... On Saturday night I went to the movies with my host brother Daniel, I don't know what it is called in English but it was a comedy with Ben Stiller. I know what some of you are thinking, it was NOT a date, he is my host brother ok? haha anyway, then today I went to a small zoo with my host mom. It was a little boring at first, because we were looking at a bunch of boring fish and reptiles and birds, but then we saw the monkeys and the kangaroos and pigs and it got interesting.
RIP CHRIS CWIK 4.26.88 - 11.3.07
Early Saturday morning a friend of mine was hit by a car and killed. He was drunk and walking on the side of the road alone. He graduated with my brother, and I am sure this is really hard on Ryan too. He was with Cwik the night he died. I used to be close with Chris, he hung out with Leona and I all the time our freshman year. After he graduated we lost touch, but still talked every once and a while. He was one of the coolest guys I have met in my entire life. All of Antioch loved him, even all the teachers at ACHS loved him. He was one of those guys with that charm, he is like a legend in our town. I cannot even believe this has happened to him, he didnt deserve this. I still remember the last conversation I had with him. It was the day before I left, he called me to tell me he couldnt make it to my going away party. He promised that we would hang out when I got home, and he even said he was going to try and save up some money and visit me (I knew he wasnt really going to). I dont know if any of you know Facebook... But its a website kind of like myspace, where you can post pictures and communicate easily with friends. You can make groups to see what people have in common I guess. Well anyway, on Saturday someone made a group called "RIP Chris Cwik". It is Sunday night, and I just joined the group of already 467 people. The word spread so fast, and all of Antioch and Lakes High School is in shock.
Click the link below for the News Sun article on Chris.
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/news/634298,WA04lakevilla.article
Then there is my friend Steven. Me and him are alot closer than Chris and I. He is in my class and I have been great friends with him since we were in 6th grade. Last night he was dumb, driving drunk with 2 of his friends, Andy and Kristian. They hit a turn at 60 miles an hour on North Avenue in Antioch. They flipped the truck 3 times, Kristian got flung out of the car. Steven broke both his ankles, one of his wrists, and his collar bone that he had already broken before. Andy was the only one able to walk. Steven had a concusion, Kristian didnt want to leave Steven because he wasnt talking. Kristian and Steven are both still in the hospital. I don't know what is going on in this world. Don't drink and drive. Don't even drink alcohol period, it kills people everyday. In the past 2 days I lost one of my good friends because of alcohol, and almost lost another great friend the night after. Thank God Steven is alive, I hope now he will never drive drunk again. Hopefully, he wont even drink alcohol again. His 18th birthday was last weekend, he is not old enough to be getting drunk anyway. This is really scaring me.
4 comments:
Aunt Kimmy
I am sorry to hear about your friends.
Hang in there Megan! I hope everyone learned some lessons from these tragedies. It is a hard way to learn something, especialy when a young person has to die.
I'm so sorry! I know how it must feel. I lost one of my best friends when I was in HS too. She was also driving drunk. Unfortunately, it takes tragic things like this to happen before people realize the severity of their actions. And even then, some just think "it'll never happen to me." It is scary, no doubt! I'm just so thankful you're smart enough to know better even before something could happen! I'll be praying for you! Take care of yourself! Monica
Scares me too Megan...especially with kids and nieces and nephews that drive themselves or with others. If something like that happened to one of you...it would put a hole in our hearts forever, I promise you that. From what I understand, your friend was very well liked and extremely popular, but also partied quite a bit. I suppose that when a friend is lost so senselessly, we can either come away from the tragedy with a warning not to repeat the same mistakes, or come away from it with nothing - because sometimes we think we are invincible and partying is so much fun. It's ultimately our choice, isn't it? You take care and stay safe. k?
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