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Fall Break Free Post

Bright and early, Friday morning, my mom dropped me off at a dingy apartment complex. I met with my friend as we both prepared for the next four days of constant school over our fall break. We climbed the wobbly stairs and opened the office building door. As we passed through the hall and reached the room we took deep breaths, dreading what was to come. We met our eight classmates we would be with for the next few days and our teacher. Immediately we were shown a shocking video of a girl and her friends getting into a car crash. At that point I knew, drivers ed was exactly as I predicted.

Our extremely long days were spent taking notes from a textbook, watching pointless videos, and taking unnecessary breaks that only took up time. I noticed as each day began, everyone looked more exhausted than they had the day before. As my classmates and I reached the final day before the test, we all felt underprepared. We slowly started panicking wondering if we did not pay attention enough or if we had taken enough notes.

My friends and I are cramming last minute studying and hoping for the best as we prepare for our test tomorrow.

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