My High School is gone

I had wondered what I would write a second blog about, as if anyone other than my wife would read it. However, I received news yesterday through Facebook that they are planning on tearing down my old high school alma mater, Adams City High School in Commerce City, CO. Not to be confused with the new Adams City High School also located in Commerce City, CO. I remember when I was living in Commerce City and the proposal for the new high school was on the ballot. My grandparents told me to make sure I voted for the new school, so natually I did. Immediatly afterward I regretted it. At the time the plan was to build the new school and to turn the old high school into a charter school. These 2 proposals were listed on the ballot seperately. The new high school passed while the proposal to turn the school into a charter school failed. This meant that the school has been sitting empty, deglected and dare I say forgotten by some people, and I would include myself in that group. I didnt go to any of the "alumni" activities like seeing it for the final time or touring the new one or anything like that. Yesterday however I seen these pictures a friend had posted to Facebook, you may be able to see for yourself by clicking this link:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/album.php?aid=2049856&id=1293608717&ref=mf

I found the pictures to be very alarming, very sad...like a ghost town. All the memories of what happened in the particular part of the building the picture taken were nice, trying to even figure out what the picture was...not so nice. Its kinda strange now to think that it will no longer be there, kinda like losing a piece of your childhood or even for some people I would imagine like losing a friend. The saddest things for me was the various classes who had painted murals inside the walls of what soon will be a rubble pile...you can move trophies, lockers, books, computers, equipment and various things like that but the murals that people worked hard on and displayed proudly thoughout the school will be no more. Very sad. I dont want to say to much more, I have a lot of fond, fond memories of the high school and the friends, teachers and everyone else I met there, what I learned there and how I still use it today (hated geometry, and guess what I do ALL day now, you guessed it geometry), there will always be a Adams City High School thanks to the new school but its not MY Adams City High School and it never will be.