Posting one blog per week over vacation makes me anxious, and I'm happy to have subjects on campus today. The day starts with breakfast at dawn with temps in the 20s.
The bio-mass furnace is roaring and its clean steam exhaust belches from the stack as we head to first period class.
Peter (a day student) and Daniel are enjoying Dunkin Donuts and ice tea at 8:10. Let's hope the sugar helps. Daniel is barely with us, having flown in from Seoul!
As is often the case, we seem to start very fast.
These students have just dehydrated a salt over a burner, and are determining the nature of the salt from its residual weight.
Ryan (background) has informed me that he approves of my haircut.
9:10, and time to move to "A Block".
Before math starts, there's time for a Tron experience.....
Upstairs in biology, we're fashioning strings of beads representing X and Y chromosomes for a demonstration of mitosis.
Afternoon, and the Blackwater Ski Area is happening!
Tim Norris's intrepid ski jumpers are training.
Hurtling on to a rough fabric mattress takes some courage, but this is ski jumping!
Eli enjoys an afternoon in the music studio.