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Welcome to ANI In The Air, Under The Sky, By The Fire, and Around Baltimore, your daily
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broadcast briefing of all the goings ons, ins and rounds, arts and ideas, Sudbury School.
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So today is Friday, the last day of our first full week since we've been back in person.
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It was a cold, windy day. We still had our windows open of course, although not as wide
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open since the cold air just kind of wants to flow in. It's kind of amazing just how
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strong that flow can be, which is good. We like to dilute all the air inside with fresh
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air on the outside. Our heating system is going full tilt and keeping us all toasty
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warm, I hope. Of course many students are still outside, which is great. So lots and
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lots of our students able to handle the cold and the wind and well I'm out here cold and
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being blown but I'm surviving. Today there was the hike. Had apparently a nice good group
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of people kind of all hiking together at a base they all liked and coming across I guess
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a nice little beach and a band building that they kind of explored. There's some great
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photos that Ashley took and hopefully some of them will appear in the newsletter that
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will hopefully be coming out very shortly. Here at school Phil and I had put up some
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test stuff for new tent stakes to keep the poles up and we took them down. Still a little
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bit of work to get everything to be done efficiently when we go to put up the big tent but we have
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ordered the larger heavier drill in stakes to make it a nice solid tent raising experience
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when we get to it in a few weeks hopefully. For now we are all very appreciative of being
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able to just sit in the bright sun because it's so cold. Did I mention it was cold? It's
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cold. Looks like there was some workshop activity today and lots of running about on the outside
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and yeah I don't know it's all good. So it's no JC today so it's kind of calm on that front
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and we are still getting reports of people planning coming back. Hopefully we'll see
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a couple students come back next week and then you know we'll see. I think in a couple
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weeks we'll be doing our first visiting week since we've been back. For the most part it
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will be people doing the visiting week in anticipation of the fall but we might get
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one or two new students enrolling this year. It's still a possibility particularly thanks
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to us having extended the school year by a few weeks because we usually cut off enrollment
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three months from the end but that is now a little bit farther out. I guess I should
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also just remind all the listeners out there that you know we had modified the calendar
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so in addition to ending later in June we also got rid of our spring break and just
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replaced it with March 26th we're taking off that Friday. Otherwise we are in session so
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yeah that's all good and I think that's everything. So farewell Friday it was a good week. First
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J.C. in school meetings since we were back. Lots of activity outside even in the cold
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and the wind that we had at the end of the week and I don't know was it raining earlier
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in the week? Yeah it was raining on Monday but you know our students are very hearty.
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Chickens are hearty too. They've been enjoying the fact that we've been back so that they
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can go walking around throughout the day. Yeah I think that's about it. Oh we also we
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had installed through our safety grant these lights looking out onto our parking lot from
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the roof and being able to highlight the fields. We have had some successful tests of that.
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It's kind of light when we end the day so it's a little hard to get too much of an insight
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as to how it's going but on my way home at times I have seen them come on and just a
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nice bit of illumination. So looking forward to that. And of course we had gotten an inflatable
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screen for movie nights in the future. That was on our school meeting on Wednesday. So
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yeah. A good week of preparing for the future. Yep. Alrighty then. I think that's all I have
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to blabber on about. And you all have a great weekend. See you on Monday either in person
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or online. And you all have a good one. See you when I see you.