Experience With no Power-Primary resource

Experience Without Power-Primary Resource

During a Period three lesson the school experienced a power cut. All of us expected the power to return in a few moments, as this is the normal procedure, but after five minutes nothing had come back on. The dim emergency lighting had been engaged and we sat in the dark wondering what was going on.The teacher took us to the cafeteria where it was lighter, but it was very cold and eerie, with no one in the corridors or any lessons going on. The teacher decided to go on his phone to show us a website about a theater play to try and resume the lesson but suddenly realized he had no Wi-Fi. This happened on several occasions due to people forgetting that the power was gone. All of us tried having conversations, I ended up enjoying myself a lot more than I would have done. we laughed and joked about social things like Football, Lego and Drama. At the end of lesson we decided to leave but where told by members of staff not to go walking around (even though we had just stepped into the corridor) in case of safety measures. The dilemma was if the fire alarm went off nobody would know. Nobody from years 7-11 could contact their parents to go home and had to spend the rest of the day in the same room for emergency measure with no food or break. Sixth form where allowed to go home because they could sign out, but where told to do so discretely in case of upsetting the younger ones.
I arrived home only to find all the digital clocks going off and the internet down. My mum explained she had to manually cleanup all the dishes at work and not in the dishwasher, which mounted up work as she had people to serve and floors to wipe. When my brother finally returned home he talked about how boring his lesson was, and ended up drawing with his friends and playing games on an old phone (Pac-Man etc). There was no electricity at home either as the grid had shut down but we had gas and was able to still have dinner that night. The power eventually came back on and we ended up going back to normal (watching TV, going on the computer)