That Moment Everything You Read or See Reflects Your Immediate Life

Today I was reading from a book assigned for my Drama course. The author Eugenio Barba, spoke of his experience of living in Norway. When he was seventeen he left Italy and worked as a welder’s apprentice in Norway, where he did not know the language. What he says in his book, The Paper Canoe relates closely to the shared feelings of the international students with me at Rhodes:

“People simply reacted to my presence, which communicated neither aggression nor sympathy, neither desire for fraternization nor challenge.”