A lovely student created for me this “Duke University” banner to hang above the homeroom pictures I put up earlier this week.

It’s only been a week and a half, but I definitely feel like Rise is somewhere I belong – at least for the next two years. I hardly ever felt that way at Cram, probably because it was in Las Vegas.
I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I’ve felt so long
(Erase all the pain till it’s gone)
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I’m close to something real
I wanna find something I’ve wanted all along
Somewhere I belong