Perspective

I enjoy coming back to places I'd once been used to, these I haven't seen for a long time. Every time I return, it's an opportunity for me to think back to the past and think about who I'd represented back in the day and what my life was like. The idea first hit me when I was sitting in a coffee place at downtown Warsaw, starting at the city center through the window. I looked at the buildings which I used to watch live on an on-line webcam while in the States, longing to home. But here I was, back, in the real world. Now I could at most watch Yakima through an on-line webcam, away from there for good.

Perspective.

Personally, treating life from different perspectives makes my life easier. It makes me happier, prevents me from worrying about minor stuff, and strengthens my belief in the future and my call. Relying on the perspective proves that everything that happens, happens in a way it's supposed to.

7. Freshman Orientation

[August 24, 2015]
School doesn't start until two days from now, but I already get to know the reality of A.C. Davis High School. Here we go: Freshman Orientation.

I get the first idea of how it's going to be in the months to follow. It's 7:30 in the morning, the sun stands low, the air is cool, and the space of Davis courtyard vast. This time, it's also filled with some two hundred fellow students. Freshmen. To be precise, I am going to be a Senior, yet I am new to the school. And the Orientation is something an exchange students undoubtedly needs.  

I'm surprised to be the only incoming student wearing our school's colors - black and orange. I have prepared myself for being a Pirate way back in Poland - I remembered to pack all clothes I could find in these colors. I've already been a Pirate even before I formally became one.