I apologize for being incredibly slow on updating you all here...I have been SO busy since I last posted that sitting on a computer hasn't even really been an option. I am now midway through my first week of teaching here and absolutely loving it. I taught a class called Earth Works twice yesterday which is an art type class where children create their own impermanent art outside (I believe I mentioned the class in one of my previous posts). Today I taught a rock climbing class (where I was evaluated) and a Voyageur class which is a class where I pretend to be a French Voyageur for three hours while taking students (in this case college-aged) out in a voyager canoe to an encampment where they learn to make flint and steel fires, make tent stakes, and many other things.
Each day I am getting closer with the people and the land here in Minnesota. I absolutely love the community. Last weekend I went to a benefit folk concert at a greenhouse here in town (which isn't even really a town) and heard local bands (and two of my fellow naturalists) play.
Last Friday we had our matriculation where we were made an official part of the program here and got our famous 'blue coats' which are patagonia rain coats with our names and Wolf Ridge's name embroidered into them.
I spend so much time laughing up here that I've forgotten what it is to spend each day doing something I don't love...and I am so happy I am forgetting that. To think that one year ago, and even two years ago, to this day I would have been sitting in an office doing something I hated, to go home to do something I might semi enjoy, when now I spend every day surrounded by a great group of people doing thing after thing that I love...it just sends my mind spinning.
