You never know what life is going to bring you. Today was another very fun in-person day. But what we didn't learn until later that evening was that it was our last in-person day. We had to shift our final scheduled in-person session to Zoom. It is sad that we won't get a chance to say good-bye to each other in-person and celebrate the end of our summer together. It is so important to appreciate each day because you never know what will happen.

Today started our day with a (virtual) visit to Hono‘uli‘uli National Historic Site. Like Minidoka, this is a place where Japanese-American citizens were imprisoned for no reason other than their ancestry. After learning about this story we (virtually) toured through downtown Honolulu. Then our in-person crew got to visit with José Barzola from the Matsunaga Institute for Peace. We learned about the history of the Matsunaga Institute and how Senator Matsunaga said that "If we want peace, we must educate people to want peace." Mr. Barzola also taught us so many important and interesting things about his peace-building work. This inspired our p4c question: Can kindness of peace lead to something bad?

After a fun lunch break Mr. Barzola joined us again in the afternoon. This time he led us through a negotiation simulation and conflict resolution exercise. We had to imagine that there were 12 people on a flooded island and we could only save 6 of them. Who would we save? First we had to think about it on our own and then we broke into groups and had to decide how to prioritize the people. It was hard and our decisions helped us to better understand our own values. After the exercise we made another whole-group p4c circle and reflected on the reasons behind our decisions. It was definitely a thought-provoking day!