I think that going straight from college to teaching high schoolers really did force me to become an all out grown-up quickly. I'm almost always conscious of how I present myself when I'm outside my trailer. In a community this small, I'm concerned about keeping up impressions.

I don't think I realized how much that had changed me until this roadtrip summer. When I'm really relaxing. When I'm laughing with friends. When I'm meeting strangers. When I'm recruiting seniors to blow bubbles at professors. When I'm dancing to the music that's being played because how can you hear this and not get on your feet. There's something that gets turned off too much in my new life. I need to take note and find a way to bring it back.