Teaching DARE with Brenda !!

Cindy had to attend a meeting today and I was unable to attend the meeting with her. So what she decided to do was send me along with Brenda to teach a DARE class. It was so awesome! Cindy drove me to the school and we arrived at about 12 30. Brenda and I had about twenty minutes to kill so she asked if I wanted to go to Shoppers and I was like heck yes !! Brenda and I went , and it was so cool inside the police van, she had her emergency sirens in the car, a radio. While we were diving I would listen into the radio calls ... I might say they are a little confusing !
We then arrived back at 12 50 and talked for a little bit and then went into the school to teach class. It was so interesting to see how the program changed over the years. I remeber when I was studying DARE alot of the students shied away from answering questions. In this class everyone wanted to participated , I thought this was really great! It was really great to see that children cared about their future and took the time to listen.

After Brenda was done teaching the class her and I left to head back to headquaters. On the way back her and I had a conversation and we talked about why I wanted to become a police officer .I explained to her that my father was and still is sick and I was recalling times were I had to call the police . I had been amazed at how they could control a situation that seemed almost impossible to conquer. Now it was my turn to be the person in someone elses life. And to Brenda's suprise that was the same reason she became and officer. It was really cool and I was so honored to spend a day with her !

officer annmarie lavecchia