(Post and Image provided by Hope Frye)
Today was our first full day here at the Väddӧ Folkschool, and it was very chill! The weather was not great, as it was pretty cold and rainy in the afternoon, causing our meeting that was supposed to occur then with a local environmentalist wellness educator, Malin Ericksson, to be delayed until Friday. This gave us plenty of free time in the morning, until we met for class in the afternoon! My roommate, Olivia, and I spent that time going grocery shopping at the local ICA supermarket, which was just about 20 minutes away by walking. We used this opportunity to plan and buy enough food for all the meals and dinners we will have to make while we are here at the folkschool!
During class, we were focusing on doing our readings, but this time, we read for about 45 minutes, near each other, and focused on whatever we found interesting, whether from the class reading book, All We Can Save, or from one of the books in our “Sister Forest Library,” then after that time we came back and shared about what we had found interesting from our individual readings. I only read from All We Can Save, and I focused mostly on reading the poem “Dead Stars” from it, which I highly recommend. After that part of class, we then focused on brainstorming ideas for our community art project in Singӧ, in which, I was with a group that mainly focused on building bat houses to give to the local community.
Overall it was a very chill and relaxing day, especially after our really nice, but long experience camping; and I’m glad to be able to stay in some really nice dorms!