He taught us some very outstanding facts in a fun way. Officer Gabrielsen and Mrs. Williams did a role-play to show our class what peer pressure is and how to handle problems that we may be involved with. He told us the consequences of being caught with drugs and he explained to us the damage drugs could do to our bodies.  I learned many things about alcohol. I learned you have to be 21 or older to drink alcohol. I know that too much alcohol can lead to a coma or death. In addition, alcohol kills brain cells and it goes directly to your bloodstream. I also learned that every eight seconds someone dies from cigarette smoke. There are 101poisons in just one cigarette. Most people smoke cigarettes because of nicotine. Nicotine is a very addictive chemical. One day you smoke one cigarette the second day you smoke two and it leads to more each day. I also learned about peer pressure. Peer pressure is one someone makes you do something that you don’t want to do. Mrs. Williams and Officer Gabrielsen acted out how to handle problems we may have with peers.

As you can see, I have learned a lot in D.A.R.E. this year. I think D.A.R.E. was the best thing we learned this year because it was fun and informative. We are becoming more mature and this was a very special gift to us. I think D.A.R.E. made us way more mature and it gave us a feeling of getting to know more about life and ourselves. Hopefully we will get to pass D.A.R.E. onto the younger kids at Lincoln-Titus.