Life Education Trust A.K.A Harold the Giraffe

On Monday the 16th August our class went to the life education trust caravan. We learnt about how drugs can affect the body and the mind. We also learnt the reason why people get addicted to drugs, alcohol and smoking. Its mainly because the things that they are taking are effecting the chemicals in their brain and the brain stops making them, so they have to take double doses and if they dont they get depresed, and that is why they take so much. That is what people call addiction. Its amazing what happens to people when they take drugs or smoke and sometimes they dont realise what has happened to them. We also learnt that some people only take drugs to fit in with everyone else. Hey think its cool, but since we found ot what it did, we didn't think it was. The caravan travels all around nz, going from school to school, teaching kids abot things like how the liver works, what the body does and how the body works. It really is quite interesting. We dont know what we are going to be learning about next time, and were all exited to go back