Students and Teachers Celebrate the End of Winter

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Several SJHS students and teachers celebrated the start of spring and the end of winter by going to the Color Festival. The Color Festival was held on Saturday and Sunday, March 24 and 25 at the Sri Sri Radna Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah.  The point of the Color Festival is to celebrate the end of winter and the start of spring. At the Color Festival, attendees buy chalk that comes in  many different colors and throw it on others.  People in small groups are seen singing, dancing and throwing colors on each other. They have a color countdown every two hours, where they count from ten and at one they throw colors in the air, which makes a cloud of many different colors in the air so everyone has at least some color on.

On Saturday, the Color Festival went from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm, and on Sunday it went from noon to 4:00 pm. The colors are completely washable and come out of clothes and can be washed off skin with water.  The admission is free and a bag of five colors only cost ten dollars. Single bags are two dollars. In fact, even some of the teachers went to the Color Festival, Mrs. Cole, the seventh and eighth-grade history teacher at Springville Junior High School, said, “I have gone to Color Fest almost every year that I've lived in Utah. I think it is important to learn about and experience other cultures -we are really lucky to have a Hare Krishna temple in the area so we can learn a bit about that sect of Hinduism.” Cheyanne Sherman, a seventh grader at SJHS, said, “I loved being covered in colors and the festival is very fun.”

The color festival happens only once a year in Spanish Fork and Salt Lake City. It’s a good time to have fun with your friends and enjoy the passing of winter and coming of spring by dancing, throwing color, listening to live music, and having a chance to go see the cultures that celebrate everyone.

Attributions
Lexey Anderson, SJHS Staff Writer