CONTRASTS NORTH AND SOUTH
Ah…my nursing class is over and I’m finding myself with some wonderful evenings of free time. It’s taken several days to unwind and to begin to enjoy what feels like a normal several hours after work before succumbing to a deep winter's sleep in this dark and interesting place. I could get very used to these sorts of evenings and to waking up without a nursing assignment on my mind, at least until they begin again on January 12. That should be plenty of time to feel rested and reinspired. The wind chill has caused temperatures lately to be between minus 20 and minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit. It will drop as winter goes on to 50 to 60 or possibly more degrees below zero necessitating, even now, warm clothes and for me, interventions like hot tea after trekking for any distance. Kind people stop often on the roads before and after the lagoon and offer rides on cold and windy days. I seem to need a great deal of exercise and enjoy it as well, so usually find myself smiling an