Back to School

I started the course on Wednesday and it’s already pretty intensive. We go from about 8am to 5pm and then have a hefty load of homework. But we’re getting a lot of individual attention with three instructors to eight participants. The eight of us are a North American crowd with six from the U.S. and two from Canada. Six men and two women range in age from 27 to 56. There’s a married couple from Vermont taking a year off for something different, a man who wants to pursue screenwriting and use teaching as his bread-n-butter until he sinks a movie deal, and a guy from Oklahoma who met a girl in Thailand two years ago and finally made it over to be with her. We all gelled from the beginning, which is a good thing since we'll be spending almost all of our waking hours together.