We're three days into the school year, and--with the exception of the usual new-student-homework-shock--it feels like we haven't missed a beat. Returnees are cool; here are Owen and Gracia studying physics.
Wednesday afternoon provided enough time for student volunteers to harvest organic vegetables from the substantial garden behind MacKenzie House. These kids are picking New Zealand spinach from stems for the salad bar..
But there's another side to the start of school. It's the return of adolescent risk-taking. For some, going from here to there needs to be accomplished in the most radical manner possible.
New students get in to the act as if they've always been here.
