By noon we were off. Freshly fed and rearing to go, the group of 30 CEA students hopped on two busses ready for our 8 hour trip to Krakow, Poland. Planning ahead, I downloaded a few movies on to my computer to supplement the films that CEA would be showing on the closed circuit bus TV.
Along the way, we stopped twice between viewing Schindler's List and a movie of my own choosing. I remembered watching Schindler's before, maybe in high school, but I guess I never guessed actually paid any attention to what happened. Horribly depressed, I was glad to have my own movies to distract me from the incredibly guilty feeling the movie forced upon me.
Eight hours and some urgent pee stops later, we were finally in Krakow. Our hotel seemed a little sketchy, but at that point, I was just glad to have a bed to sleep in. Before we headed to bed for the night though, Hillary, Cynthia, and I decided to try and see some of the city. Our hour long walk resulted in our seeing a random old church, a lot of random closed stores and a really long stair railing that I tried to ride down. That night, I tried to mentally prepare for what was to come in the next day, knowing that no matter how much I thought about it, nothing would come close to how seeing those atrocities would make me feel.
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