The last days of summer, before school starts are used at the new playground.
Classes begin there in Eastern Greenland August 17, while we began August 14. Many adults at school who see me ask how I am adjusting. I was gone four weeks so did have time to really appreciate the air, the quiet, the light, the sea ice, the people, the simplicity, nature, and a clear vision. After arriving in my hometown, Chico, California, to be welcomed by family, fatigue entered my mind and body. It had been an exhausting experience, truly not a vacation, but a very significant event in my life. Stepping out of the car by the front walkway, I stopped to scratch Kitty, who meowed as if I had never left. He expected the traditional rubdown; neck, belly, top of tail, that had always occurred. When we both agreed it was enough, I moved toward the front door. Looking up, the sky appeared so much more star-studded than was usual for August here in the northern Sacramento valley... Then I realized; I was seeing stars, and seeing them through the night sky. It was night. I had not experienced a night for four weeks, so had not seen even one star for four weeks! How very strange. That is what stands out when anyone asks me about getting used to being back in California, after Greenland. I also really loved the quiet; no phones, no television, few people talking, no cars, no freeway, and no electric wires discharging electrons.
*A world without electric noise *
Of course each of these noise makers irritates me normally, so the lack of them was greatly appreciated.
Now that school has begun, I want to look over each journal entry and make additions so that anyone else who looks over the website can get greater insight into what our lives were life at the field camp at Kap Hoegh.
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