Day Seventeen: Recharge

Today I skipped class (!) and went back to the Hutterite Colony I used to be an assistant at.  I needed some Hutterite Kid Hugs and I needed to ask the teacher there, who has taught for 25 years, to clarify some of the things that are expected of me at university.  I fell a bit better, less lost and more like I know what I am doing.  Mostly I needed a recharge.  I needed to get away from the city and back to rural Alberta.  I needed to see some space and talk to people that say please and thank you and have a nice day.  I got to chat with my old students and see that things there are pretty much the same and we joked about that.  They listen just as well as when I left, they still argue with each other and they still tell me the most outrageous things (like all the men had the shave their beards off.....the little bums!)  They ALMOST had me with that one.  I feel like I have reconnected with the reason I am going to school, for those aha moments, for the smiles and the fun.  I felt at home in that room and I can hardly wait to get back to the small town schools when I am done.  The city is killing me....but I can do it.  I can focus.  I can think of Hutterite Kid Hugs.