Brandon Fortner<\/p>\n
ROUGH DRAFT<\/p>\n
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\u201cAs I said earlier this evening; all good things must come to an end, but Brandon Fortner never comes to an end,\u201d I tipped the cup upside down and let all of the cider fall dramatically to the ground, cheers.\u00a0 Those were the last words I said during our, \u201cfriends and family,\u201d picnic on the last day of Teen Council.\u00a0 I had successfully become the sex knowledge master that I had been striving to be for years.\u00a0 College was ahead of me and I had one last fun high school summer with my friends.\u00a0 This part is the end though, and the full story starts with an interview and some crazy-fun kids who made me extremely nervous.<\/p>\n
I was covering my booty, pretending to be the pokemon Charmander hiding its tail from the rain.\u00a0 The current members of Teen Council looked at me, judging my performance and laughing.\u00a0 Teen Council is a group of high school students that work for Planned Parenthood and go around schools within their community to teach comprehensive sexual education to their peers.\u00a0 The Charmander charade was part of the interview process.\u00a0 Teen Council was a club that I believed to be the most cool, ultimate, badass, liberal sex club ever.\u00a0 This highly exclusive club had been an interest for me ever since they barged into my physical education class and showed everyone pictures of vaginas.\u00a0 Not just any old healthy vagina either, vaginas that were affected by venereal diseases.\u00a0 From the moment I saw the first afflicted vagina I knew that Teen Council needed me to be the herald of reproductive care.\u00a0 I fantasized about being in their place, walking through the halls throwing condoms in everyone\u2019s faces.\u00a0 I was very dramatic back then.\u00a0 Not to mention the members who were teaching the class totally ripped apart the sexual education that our textbooks were trying to teach us. Instead of saying, \u201cDon\u2019t have sex,\u201d we were told by the Teen Council members, \u201cAbstinence is a great way to prevent pregnancy, STDs and STIs but it isn\u2019t what works best for everyone here are some other ways to prevent this from happening to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the age of fourteen the only thing running through your mind is sex, appearance, music, fun, drugs, and popularity.\u00a0 This may not apply to everyone, but I thought at the time that it was fairly universal.\u00a0 My life needed to be affected by as many things as possible; I was desperate for change and hungry for distinction.\u00a0 That one class in a sense changed my life, without it I wouldn\u2019t have become a member of Teen Council, and then decided to go to college and ultimately become a teacher.\u00a0 To be completely honest I didn\u2019t do much teaching while I was in Teen Council, it appeared\u00a0\u00a0 scary and intimidating.\u00a0 In retrospect I wish that I would have tried to take advantage of this opportunity because I was in a role that really went against what the dominant narrative wanted adolescents to understand.\u00a0 This was what was so appealing to me about going into teaching, I had the opportunity to change peoples lives, which sounded like a worthy enough career choice.<\/p>\n
There was a little welcoming meeting that we were told to bring our parents to so we could be introduced to the new facilitator.\u00a0 Mother and I hopped into whatever sedan she was driving at the time and motored on over to the Shelton Planned Parenthood.\u00a0 I opened the completely blacked out door and entered the hallowed lobby that would soon become the den of all reproductive care and knowledge that I would acquire.\u00a0 For the real Teen Council meetings we entered through a less grand side door of the building.\u00a0 My mother and I sat in our chairs and she attempted to talk to me but I mildly ignored her, I hated my mother at the time and thought that she was a huge bitch, but in reality my mother is a bad bitch (all respect meant).\u00a0 It came time for everyone to, \u201cget to know each other,\u201d we each shared where we were from and then we also had to say something that we liked about the person who came with us.\u00a0 I cant quite remember what my mother said, I\u2019m sure it was something very similar to what the other mothers had said about their children.\u00a0 I remember specifically saying in a very bored and monotone voice, \u201cMy mother loves all of her children but sometimes\u2026\u201d my mother had cut me off and said, \u201cSometimes I can love them too much.\u201d\u00a0 We looked like such idiots, I love my mom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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