After five months in DNS: checkpoint!

Expectations don't always meet reality... luckily! I had to let go of many aspects I expected about DNS and about myself living in a community. I am facing many more challenges than I thought I would and I am learning on a great variety of levels and directions. For example, I didn't know I could be such a good facilitator among group dynamics and at the same time struggle to open up myself to others. DNS is not only a university of pedagogy, it's a school for Life! The people I live with - who come from a great variety of places and backgrounds - are sincere mirrors of the different shades of me, and recognizing myself is not an easy task. I find that the program I'm building together with the other students and the teachers is a powerful fuel for my soul: I still get amazed by the number of things I get to do in just one week, by the power of community, and by the ways in which I'm developing myself. I'm curious to see who I'm going to be at the end of this four-year program.