LARP day

The day started off as usual with breakfast but we were already feeling the pressure of it being the last day. We knew we had to say goodbye quite soon and we had gotten so attached to our friends, we really didn’t want to. After breakfast we had an energizer and a brief session on the LARP game, even though we were sad the days spend in Motycz were slowly slipping away, we were anticipating the game.

The scenario was simple: one classroom in which the best two students were drug dealers because they couldn’t afford going to University otherwise. Layla and Charles were brilliant in physics and chemistry but had limited means of supporting themselves through uni, so the solution was dealing drugs. Their polar opposites were Peter and Bobby, scoundrels and rebels, they didn’t care about school, they cared only about having fun and they were very disruptive. The teachers played by our colleagues Crystalla and Emese were brilliant, supportive of the students and trying to make them achieve something in life. The whole plot was that one girl from the class, Laura, had killed herself because some nude pictures of her were leaked on Facebook and suspicions were running at an all time high, who was it?

The first suspect was of course her boyfriend, Dean, but he didn’t seem to know much or played the innocent part very, very well. He was busy in trying to get everyone in the classroom on his side, even the princess of the group tended to believe his story and even the nerds. The psychologist of the school started snooping around and asking questions…even Headmaster Johnson was a suspect. To add even more pressure, the police was there all the time and tried to pry as much information out of the students as possible: nerd Marc was terrified and even the problem students were. The cleaning lady seemed to know way more than she was letting on and was constantly spying on everyone. A journalist, the mother of Layla was trying to kick start her career with the news but was she using all the material she knew or was she cherry picking?

In the end, after two hours of pure fun we had to call it a day. Charles was arrested on suspicion of being guilty and so were headmaster Johnson and the character played by Razvan (a troubled boy, always a prankster, never paying attention to the class). The rest of us could breathe easily. This game bonded us even more, we had to act a little bit and try to stay in character during the whole two hours and that was a little difficult but definitely not impossible.

The last evening was bitter sweet, we all played Mafia, cards, pool and discussed about the lives we were going back to, nobody really wanted to return home and everybody secretly wished we could stop time and this night would last longer. We sang together, we promised we would meet again, we ate together and we exchanged goodbye notes, hoping that in the era of technology we would manage to stay connected because our time in Motycz managed to bond us maybe for life. Without sounding too corny, I guess we can safely say that this was probably the most memorable Erasmus+ program in which we took part and, definitely, not the last.

Let us hope we meet again, for we are young and the world is our playground and if we dream something we can do it…

With love,

Adelina from Romania