Starve a Vampire, Save 3 Lives
by Robert Garcia
On Friday November 20, 2009 at Southwest High School held its twice yearly blood drive hosted by the Red Cross. The blood drive offers community service and a t-shirt if you donate blood or try to donate blood. Many people went in with the slogan "Starve a Vampire, Donate Blood" being ironic for the purpose that Twilight New Moon had premiered that day. Many students in school donated as well. All lot of new student this year and a few teachers, and parents came to donate blood for the first time. In order to donate blood they had to make sure you were a "Safe Donor" followed by a interview and a small blood sample that checked if your blood was safe to use. After the interview donors were sent to a bed where they lay back and the professionals began to take their blood by sticking a needle in their vein. The whole blood-drawing process depended on the person's blood flow, but overall the new people who were nervous came out satisfied and realized it was not as bad as they though it would be. After people had donated blood they relaxed in the refreshment area where donors were served snacks and drank juice or water. In the end, people donated and lives are going to be saved. And to those who wanted to donate but couldn't because of reasons of not getting the permission slip signed, there will be another one next semester.
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