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Isn't is crazy to think we've been here for four weeks now? For four weeks we've slept in beds that weren't our own, waited in caf lines that wrap around the salad bar in Stav, and heard the echoing chimes while sitting in Adirondack chairs on the lawn. Through clubs and dorm dance parties we're all grown together into a wonderful community. In our readings this week we talked about landscape, and Lane in particular would discuss the idea of finding place, and not being lost in space. This place houses so many wonderful people and grants us so many opportunities... to me it seems like the perfect balance. Almost anyone here, on our microcity on a hill, will smile back if you smile at them walking to Buntrock. Any of the desk workers I've met at Hoyme are always willing to have a conversation, even if it's over something like my laundry. At the same time, we are free to explore the world at large! Our college adventure began and now we can go wander into the wilderness of the natural lands or serve the Northfield community. We can study abroad, throwing ourselves into a new place, knowing we can come back here and be just as happy as we were before. We have a new base from which we are free to explore the wilds of the world. This balance is what Lane says Americans long for; I'm blessed to have found it.