Today I moved to Winston-Salem. It's only for 6 weeks, but the back of the Element looked like I was moving across the country.
Tomorrow I start staff orientation for the 2010 session of Governor's School West. (West will forever & always be best.)I'm the Publications Coordinator this year, to say I'm mildly excited to be returning would be an understatment.
I attended GSW in 2007 for Dance. I would be lying through my teeth if I didn't say that it was the absolute best summer of my life. I made amazing friends and grew up considerably. For most of the students, Governor's School is one of the first times they really get to stretch their independence. They're away from their house for 6 weeks, living on a college campus (be an all-girls school or whatnot), and interacting with one of the most selective cross-sections of their peers possible. When I attended as a student, it was a summer of love, magic and warm, rainy nights.
Appropriately, it rained this evening. Something special happens when it rains during the summer of the campus of Salem College. The rain normally makes it hotter, the pavement starts to steam, and the streets start of sparkle. Everything seems possible, and the only thing you want to do is stand there and take it in.
It's different, though, standing there 3 years later. I'm not a teenager anymore (though I'll always have the same bro-humor). I'm not a highschool student on the cusp of college applications and senior year. I'm not a girl coming out of one of the most disallusioning school years ever. I think I've gotten a much better grasp on who I am/what I want to be in these last years; hence, it's a little disarming, standing in the rain, attached and rooted rather than on the edge of new. Regarding my attachments (it amazing how much something can revive itself in a week), I think the time I spend here will be good practice for the greater lengths of time I will spend returned to New York City (and where ever I wind up after that - if I can tear myself away from that glorious metropolis).
So here's to summer. Here's to more word vomit & petty details. Above all, here's to cryptic messages carrying loaded diction.
xoxo, D
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The next 6 weeks, I will be living in Winston-Salem. I'm working as the Publications Coordinator for NC Governor's West (a fabulous NC program where I spent the best summer of my life just 3 short years ago). The perspective should be different and noteworthly worthy happenings should be marked this time, from the faculty perspective.
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