kloiterra

old school/new school.
for the first time in my life, i went to emporia, kansas today to enroll for fall.
there was a fairly small group of people there for this purpose.
we registered and then sat in the commons area waiting for the inevitably boring ritual to commence.
these orientation days are dramatically less enjoyable the second time you have to sit through one.
the third time is like pulling teeth. yeah, i'll take boring and uncomfortable over painful any day.
i made small talk with a very plain, very familiar looking girl who sat down at my table. she's getting married. i can't remember where she said she was from, but she had the type of face that you only see in small towns.
we were split up into groups and each was assigned a 'leader'-- a student who would lead us through the orientation and enrollment process.
ours introduced himself as kurt, a senior something major, from gardner.
he graduated from the big new high school probably nine years after i graduated from the old one.
turns out i know his dad and even went to europe with his older sister and his cousin once.
the detached familiarity was rather comforting; we had something in common.
again, small world, but i wouldn't want to paint it.
so its official--i'm an emporia state hornet. go rah.
i'm very excited for august now.
to walk away and put a considerable distance between yrself and everything and everyone you know and head into a completely uncharted situation is a rare liberation. its the modern explorer in a way.
looking forward, never back.