A Quick Turnaround

A quiet conversation quickly turned sour at the Children's Shelter Foundation during UWC’s grade eight Chiang Mai trip over the extent of crude remarks being thrown at a certain individual. The trip was meant to give the students a better understanding of how to effectively take action and help a cause but instead, the opposite happened and the result was pandemonium.

The students were all from class 8REM and all were good friends. The victim in question was Nikos Antipatis the only redhead among the group. “They have no respect for gingers!” he was heard screaming at the other boys in the room as the conversation took a turn for the worst after another, Hugo Howell, said something that really sent Nikos over the edge with rage.

The witnesses at the event saw it escalate from bad to worse. At first just a few jeering remarks were thrown but soon after, a brawl initiated. One of the witnesses, Sam Potter, was lying in the bed next to Hugo when it started. “I don't know what happened, first it was a few slight remarks but then i heard footsteps and the bed next to me became a war zone” he remarked. The two students were seen grappling and punching each other like two bears fighting over a mate. The madness caused the rest of the group who were sleeping to wake up with vigour and back against the wall to avoid the flying punches. Then Paddy, who was the gappie governing the group, intervened and used his strong arms too grab them both by the back of their shirts and spread them apart to avoid further destruction.