NCS: kpm

The enclosed picture is of the evening kitchen crew, one of the most coveted of all student work jobs. You sleep in, you get to eat early, you get the freshest of the fresh bread, and you get to go to study hall a little bit late ... What’s not to like! However, like all the jobs in the NCS work program, the chores are demanding, important to the life of the community, and help develop a real sense of responsibility.

On a totally different note, this is always a challenging week at NCS. It has been a long busy term. Call it cabin fever. Call it the stress of getting academic projects ready for the end of term. Call it the anxiety of secondary school placement. However you describe, it every year at this time there is a strange blend of feelings and emotions ... One part incredible excitement about upcoming trips and intersession offerings, mixed with one part fatigue from long physical days skiing or sledding, sprinkled with one part ennui from seasonal affective disorder, and then toss in one part yuckiness from the 24 hour stomach bug that usually goes around in late February. That is what most of this week is like! The 10 days that follow though are brilliant, all consuming, and often transformative; nobody ever seems sick!