Sorry in advance if it was too descriptive. I feel it could help me.
The school took us to a camp for 3 days, around 40 of us. There were a group of 80 students from another state residing in the same camp. We were staying on the ground floor whilst they were already on floor 1. Floor 1 included a shared dining room.
Yesterday, the popular football match El Clásico was being held. Being the “tech” guy, I was asked by others to set up the TV present in the dining room around 2 hours prior to the match. I took my laptop there and tested the possibility of streaming a match with the available equipment, it worked. I left the laptop there and went back to my room.
15 minutes remaining, I left the room to set up the match stream and call other rooms to join. Half way to the stairway, our principal and a classmate stopped me, claiming the situation up there was not quite ok. “Kids started fighting, their supervisors separated them while utterly cursing and hitting them. One boy was taken out of the building as punishment by one of the supervisors” Curious to find out more, I took the path to the bathroom which had a view of the stairway. A supervisor was yelling at a kid, and some were crying.
Realizing I wouldn’t be able to set the match up given the constraints, I went out of the building to get some fresh air. That’s when I saw the boy. On the ground, right near the front door (not visible from inside), lying on his chest and stretching his hands forward. Only having a glance at him, first I thought he was looking for something, though I couldn’t find a thing after a quick look on the ground. Thinking he might be playing hide and seek, I looked back at him… His body was shaking, his body was locked (the body was shaking as if it didn’t have any bone joints), his eyes were white, his mouth was foaming. I have no idea how but he managed to mutter “call help” in that situation.
I ran back into the building, yelling much louder than the angry supervisor “Your student is having a convulsion, front door!”. He didn’t care. Some kids, realizing it was the same person taken out (possibly concluding something out of a part of the story I didn’t know) started to call the supervisors as well. They still didn’t care; So, I yelled as loud as I could, “Man, your student is dying! Come down!” which somehow convinced one of them to take the situation seriously. I mean, you’ve brought them from another state, you are to protect them. Take a look and beat me if I was lying, that ain’t hard for you mate. I was too shocked, I forgot to call an ambulance. The supervisor lifted him up to a table. His body was like a piece of wood, gravity couldn’t beat his body lock. His arms and feet stayed at the same weird position as when he was on the ground when he was lifted.
The supervisor’s face was yelling I ain’t got no idea what I should do with this. They decided, in all seriousness, to put a garbage bin aside the table in case he puked while foaming. So, our principal quickly came, turned him to his side and struggled to open his mouth canal with a tissue. The boy, being able to breathe properly, instantaneously started to cry and shout “I can’t see, I can’t see!”.
The camp was a bit remote so the supervisor decided to take him to a hospital himself, instead of calling an ambulance. They did that 15 minutes later because the boy “looked” better. I know. I know man. But I don’t know what’s going on inside of him, take him to a hospital!
He was taken, ultimately. I found myself crying, mixed with headache and nausea. I kept walking in the camp that night until 2AM, it was freezing cold and rainy but I couldn’t sleep. My brain was keeping his picture in front of me everywhere I went. I cried a lot outside and went back to sleep.
I’m still shocked but further thinking what would’ve happened to him if I didn’t randomly decide to go outside. I’m still not sure if it was convulsion or seizure, else if it was caused by the beatings of the supervisors or the stress pressure they put on him.
The supervisors though: yelled at students, cursed them, hit them, forced them to stay outside while it was cold and rainy, refused to check on a student who was reportedly “dying”, had delays in taking the boy to the hospital and the list goes on. Complete assholes.
I can’t stop thinking about him. Oh god.