b'STUDENT LIFE JANUS MEMORIES We returned to Echo Hill and eventually our homes with life changing memories.The experience completed the LIFE LESSON FROM THE SPIRIT OF The First Week of School MASSACHUSSETTS analogy of navigating educational waters.We learned to set a course and achieve objectives.We learned vigilance by Wendy Hershey, Trustee and former Janus parent and responsibility.We faced a real storm, survived, and Please enjoy photos from the first weekwere stronger for it. of school.It was a time for teachers,There are times when we experience something foreign, students, and staff to reconnect, andunique, or challenging that leaves us positively changed.For those of you who would like to see the Spirit also to welcome new students andSuch was the Janus Schools adventure trips Before theof Massachusetts again youll find her moored in faculty members into our wonderfulMast on the Spirit of Massachusetts and camping atKennebunk, Maine.She was restored and retired from community. Echo Hills in 1994 and 1995. service in 2014 and is now a restaurant serving cocktails and small plates.Im sure you wont have to wash dishes Many of you who attended the Janus School in its earlythis time in the galley.years will remember this whole school adventure.The students, teachers, faculty, and many parents travelled to Chestertown Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay to Echo Hills.Echo Hills served as a base for the sailing experience and provided educational and team building programs as groups of students alternated class experience with sailing time.Everyone was divided into groups for their turn on the tall ship, a two masted 125 schooner dedicated to educational expeditions.We were assigned berths, directed on how to manage the bilge pumps and heads, and learned how to put up and take down the sails.Everyone was assigned to a watch - an hour-long assignment throughout the night.Many were given middle of the night watches and found it difficult to fall asleep, anticipating the need to check the heads and bilges so the ship wouldnt sink.Chores on the ship included reading charts, tying knots, bosun duties, and, of course, galley clean up.(One young man reminded us that they had a dishwasher at home so he never had to wash dishes.)The Chesapeake is renowned for churning up afternoonThe Spirit of Massachussettsstorms.Of course, we were not disappointed.Huddling in the below deck cabins, one child insisted, We are all going to die, the other children broke into tears andDo you have a Janus memory youd like to share in our needed reassurance, but as storms do, this too wouldnext newsletter?Wed love to read it!If so, email your pass, which it did.We all felt better with fresh air on thestory toTim Steffen:tsteffen@TheJanusSchool.orgdeck later. 6 |THE JANUS JOURNALFALL 2022 TheJanusSchool.org| 7'