My Expectations Of An Aa Meeting From Movies And Tv Shows

My expectations of an AA meeting come from movies and TV shows. I have always thought that the meetings were long – at least 2 hours. I also expect there to be a small amount of people at the meeting. I think that the majority of the people at the meeting will be men in there 40s or 50s. At the meeting, I expect everyone to be sitting in a circle. I have always thought that the people at AA meetings do not want to be there. The people will say â€Å"Hi I am ______, and I am an alcoholic.† I think that people may or may not share personal information. In addition, I’m not sure what the ratio of recovering/sober alcoholics to the amount of people still addicted to alcohol. I also think that even though the meeting will not be necessarily†¦show more content†¦The site also gave me an option to change the meeting type. There are closed, open, beginner, men only, gay, smoking permitted, wheelchair accessible, young people, women only, etc types of meeting. I chose open meeting. From there, the site gave me over twenty open meeting options that day for the time that I chose. I scrolled down the page until I found three or four options close enough to take public transportation to. I found one meeting right off of the subway called â€Å"Early Night Out.† The building that the meeting is held at is called â€Å"The Washington West Project† located on 1201 Locust St. The meeting took place on the second floor of the building in a small room. The meeting began with the discussion leader reading a passage from a book called Living Sober. The chapter was titled, â€Å"Be good to yourself.† After reading the passage, the discussion leader talked about his sobriety and offered some words of wisdom to the group as a whole. He then opened the floor for each person to say whatever he/she wants about his/her journey to recovery. The meeting then was passed from person to person. This part of the hour-long meeting went on for 45 /50 minutes. Each person began their statement/story with â€Å"I’m __________, and I am an alcoholic.† The others then responded, â€Å"Hey/Hi ___________.† Some people talked about how they are several years sober. Others were obviously very new to the process. Most of the individuals