(June 14, 2007) — Each year, the sophomore Humanities students go on an end-of-the-year fi eld trip to the Museum of Tolerance , which consists of two parts — the museum trip and lunch at the Farmer’s Market. At the museum, students get an opportunity to gain hands-on experiences in the model gas chamber and concentration camps. “This experience helped me see the world with different eyes,” senior Tamar Mirzayan said. “I realized how fortunate I am to be here in America. Those rooms were so cold.” Many students, just as Mirzayan had, learned to appreciate their lives through this trip. “One moment I remember the most is when my docent, an actual Jewish Holocaust survivor, showed us bunk beds where as many as three to four Jewish people had to sleep on,” senior Joshua Robins said. “I had a bunk bed during then too and I felt really bad for those people.” After the emotional, three hour-long museum tour, students separated into their own groups to have lunch at the Farmer’s Market. Excited sophomores visited stores ranging from small antique shops, to restaurants, to a hot-sauce shop. “I remember someone bought hot-sauce and just one drop of it made him cough, teary and red as a lobster,” said senior Nick Khalizadeh. “No amount of water was able to salvage his pride.” Many say that sophomore year is one of the hardest years of high school. After all, it isn’t freshman year or the senior year, but just in between the “best years of high school.” But clearly these students had some memorable moments between the portfolios and the pages of reading assignments.