Blizzard

After 2 days off for students, school is finally back in session.  Monday was cancelled due to extreme winds and temperature. 


Yesterday was cancelled due to the snow and winds. Poor Nali did not want to go out.  Her first attempt to climb up failed.  She just fell back.  I had push her back out the door.  She had success the 2nd time around. 






Our principal decided to make yesterday a teacher in service so that we would have one less day to make up later.  I had to scale quite a few snow banks, some as tall as me, just to get to the school.  By the time I got home, I literally had to climb the mountain outside our entryway, and slide down to get to the door.  It was an intense challenge. The first time I just slid down, so I used the railing to step up on.  It worked perfectly. 

 Later that night I shoveled us out.  I had to wait for the winds to stop because my previous attempts to shovel were a waste of time.  My work would be covered up within the hour

Semester 2

Over Christmas break I found I dog that I had to rescue.  I absolutely love having her!!! Her name is Denali but I like to call her Nali.

I'm so glad she actually made it out here with me.  I had so much trouble getting her on the plane, to get her to Alaska.  First it was too cold for American to fly her, so I got on the plane, and my wonderful dad drove her to Chicago.  When I got to Chicago I called to get her on, and Alaska Airlines could not find my reservation.  After numerous phone calls I finally got her on, and it was smooth sailing from there on out, except the flight from Bethel to Toksook Bay.  That was definitely the roughest flight I have been on.  I was just waiting for us to turn back around due to the turbulence.

When we finally made it to Toksook Nali and Sookie met each other.  That did not go so well at first, but now after about 3 weeks they love to chase each other around the house.  Megan was gone one night last weekend, and is gone this weekend, so it has been a dog party in my room.  They both pile onto my bed with me at night.  It is very crowded but they do very well surprisingly.  They just love to have licking wars of who can lick each other the most.  Which sometimes ends up coming back to me and they attack me with licks.

Both dogs saying "We miss Megan. When is she coming back?"

Nali just loves the snow.  She usually comes in covered with snow.  Sometimes when its really windy, and blowing snow she is less than thrilled about going outside, but who would be thrilled.