Nali

Well Nali is making things way more complex out here.  To get her home for the summer she needs a health certificate from a vet.  Well guess what....there are no vets in the village and in Bethel the vet only comes out for 1 week out of the month.  Looks like we will be taking an extra flight to Bethel on May 10th as long as the weather is good.  What a fun way to use a personal day. jk. If we can't get in, I guess I will have to go to Anchorage :(  (We'll hope that doesn't happen)  No matter what Nali will be coming home with me.  The vet back in Indiana just did not understand how hard it would be to go to the vet.  Maybe I can explain when I get home so next year this doesn't happen again.

Dance

This is what I made for a class I am taking, but I thought everyone might enjoy it.  This was the Dance festival at Toksook Bay.  It was probably about a month ago.  I really enjoy watching the dancing or as they call it yuraq (hopefully I spelled that right).  The drum beat is very relaxing and there is always a lot of laughing. 

Science Fair

Sorry it has been so long :(  I have been so busy.  Science fair was at the beginning of March, then there was a dance festival in Toksook, and finally a couple of weeks ago I took a trip to Anchorage.  It has been a whirlwind, but in a good way.  Here is a video that I made to show our school what our students did at the science fair.

$37

This is what $37 will buy you at the store.

My wonderful students!!!

Conversation with my students at the end of the day.


Student: I'm gonna go to college, travel the world, and then make babies
Me: Sounds like a good plan to me
Another student: She's gonna have babies from all over the world. Korean babies, Chinese babies, and Yupik babies
Student:  Not Yupik babies our eyes are ugly.  I don't like our eyes.

*Some was probably lost in translation, but you get the gist.

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.