It
was late on Wednesday evening, the sun had set, and I decided to go on a walk.
Now, you may be thinking that walking through the casino district of the city
of Reno after dark probably is not a very safe thing for a female college
student to be doing alone. Don’t worry, I was thinking the same thing. Because
I was not about to walk alone at night, I called 4 of my friends from high
school to go with me. One of the nice things about going to college in your
home town, is that you will always have someone to call when you want to do
something, because at least one person is going to be free.
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| The Reno Arch from the balcony of Commrow. |
My friend Andrew picked me up, and
in the car were my other friends too. Kris, Olivia, and Bob. We drove to the
Eldorado because we were too lazy to walk all the way there, and the Eldorado
parking is free. As we were walking around, I read the walking blog prompt
aloud, so that my friends could help me find in depth answers to these
questions.
Olivia, my best friend, was the
first one of us to point something out that related to my writing topic. She
said, “There’s a big difference between down town and UNR. UNR is much cleaner, and is a whole lot
safer.” As I looked around, I completely agreed with this statement. I feel
very safe around the campus of UNR, but I have always been at least a little
bit scared of going into the casino district, no matter how big of a group I go
with.
We continued on our stroll, and saw
the Reno Arch, and we had to take a picture. It is one of those things that is
completely required to do. We found a random security guard and handed him my
camera, and we all stood in front of the Arch and smiled. As we were standing
there, a man in a car yelling something out his window at Olivia. When she
heard this, she ran away from the car, and she messed up the picture. We had to
take it again. This is also a big difference between campus and the casino
district. On campus, you don’t have to worry about having someone yell at you
because they think you have a nice butt.
As we passed Commrow, we couldn’t
resist going inside. All through summer we would all go rock climbing there,
and we made so many amazing memories. Even our high school prom was in Commrow.
We walked inside and immediately went to the escalator and took it to the
second floor. This is the floor were the rock walls are. We went out to the
balcony and looked at the Arch, and from the balcony, we were actually able to
touch the arch.
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| Us in front of the Arch! |
It was getting late, so we went back
into the car and started to drive back to campus. On our way back, we discussed
whether or not the casino district is off limits to college students. I do not
think that the down town area is off limits to college students. In all
reality, it is a nice place to hang out with friends. Places like Commrow have
made it more student-friendly, because now people who are under the age of 21
have fun things to do down town.
The casino district in Reno is not a
bad place to be. And the Awful-Awful is in the Little Nugget, so I love down
town!
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