By Rachel Firestone
This morning we woke up and went to Columbine High School. When we arrived we went up a hill that overlooked the school to see the newly dedicated memorial to the horrible tragedy at Columbine. The memorial was extremely powerful, beautiful and, of course, very sad. The memorial was really set up, and we were really there, to commemorate the lives of those who were killed and not how they died. I saw a quote on one of the walls that was said by a student. It said, “The hardest part to understand was kids killing kids.” This is something that went through my mind when I was walking through the memorial. It is totally not comprehensible how two people could be so hateful that they want to kill other teenagers. The memorial was very personal to the 13 people who were killed. Under each name was a description of his or her life written by members of their families.
We then went to Boulder, Colorado where our first stop was Naropa University. We met with Steven Taylor who told us about the history of the Beatnik writers. He brought the lives of the writers and poets of the beatnik era to life for us. Our time with him got us ready for our time in San Francisco.
After the discussion we got a tour of the Naropa campus. The school is based in Buddhist principals. We saw the class and meeting rooms including a meditation room . Our tour guide taught us the basics of meditation and we got to practice for a few minutes.
Once our tour was done we walked to Pearl Street which is a shopping district for some free time and then dinner. After dinner we went to see a movie and then got ready for our overnight drive to Salt Lake City.
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