May is here already and spring has truly sprung. Northern European winters are long and dark, and even though the climate is milder here in Cornwall than the rest of The UK, we’re happy that the Earth has spun around the sun and our students are returning along with the warm days and long evenings. April was a busy month and we’ve already made several lovely new friends and shared some wild and wonderful experiences with our students, whether that was walking the coast path (Englisch und Wandern), or on our Arts and Culture programme.
The year moves rapidly into its second quarter and nature is starting to explode into a mesmerising kaleidoscope of colour and light. Songbirds outside our classroom at St Agnes put on a show each morning, lifting our spirits ahead of another day of exploration, curiosity, learning, and perhaps most importantly laughter. ‘Earth laughs in flowers’ wrote the great 19th century naturalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nature’s laughter is blooming and booming right now along the Cornish cliff paths, carpeting the fields and lining the hedgerows, a Divine Comedy comprised of bluebells, buttercups, violets, campions, daisies and dandelions.
The universal language of Nature is all around us. Nature is music too, another kind of language, the sound of the sea and the song of the finches, wrens, robins, larks and starlings, the twitter of these original tweeters, reminding us for a moment that there is a world out there beyond the borders of our new digital reality, that the beauty of nature is not defined by algorithms, that Elon Musk, contrary to popular opinion (including his own), is NOT GOD.
If May was a symphony it might be Beethoven’s 9th: Ode To Joy. But what are the ingredients of this feeling, this illusive experience in the dark and dangerous times we’re living in? There is no singular formula of course, we all have different ways of experiencing joy, but the enchantments of the Cornish landscape and the many ways of exploring and interacting with it have provided our students with the opportunity to expand their horizons, exercising both their minds and their bodies, and hopefully their spirits too.
With Ode To Joy as our music, our motto for the coming spring and summer might be: ‘Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air’ (Ralph Waldo Emerson again). Due to our small class sizes and because we are a business dedicated to providing a unique language learning experience, one which suits the specific needs of every one of our students and exposes them to the delights of Cornwall- its history, its nature and its culture- we hope to provide a little of what the month of May, Beethoven’s 9th symphony and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poetry have to offer. Joy.
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