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.

Only in bethel

Classic. As part of your carry out order you can get cigarettes or Copenhagen. Only in the bush would you see this.

Unknown precipitation

This is what my phone told me this morning. Only out here would you get something like that.

Blizzard

 Yesterday was the first blizzard. Stayed inside pretty much all day watching the 50 mph winds blow snow everywhere. Sookie laid in front of her "bush fireplace" while I crocheted, watched a movie, and read a little.

 












Then we had a staff cookie exchange and game night!!! It was a blast!!! Trying to make antlers was epic. Our team lost pretty badly. we had good ideas but they just didn't pan out What a great night. 

Our losing creation

The other teams winning creation

This morning I walked outside and this is what our doorway looked like. 

Caught in the act

For those of you that didn't see my Facebook post, I caught a student cheating this past week. It was probably the best one I have caught so far. Usually they are blatantly obvious about cheating. This time a girl taped a sheet of paper between her legs. I saw her looking down and thought she had a phone so I stood at the back of the room to watch. As I was watching she was awkwardly lifting up her legs and I was a little concerned. As I walked to get a student's paper she lifted her leg and I saw the paper. I asked her to give me the paper and she handed me the test. I asked for the paper under her legs and she just turned away. Later I got this crumpled up piece of paper. When I read it later I realized it was just the answer to the bonus question. All that work to try to get 1 bonus point!!!

Crocheting

Well I have had lots of time to crochet so I thought I would share with you one of my projects.  I gave this headband to Cisidra and she loved it:)  When you have nothing to do but watch ER and crochet at night you learn to become very creative.  I have also learned that when you can watch an episode of ER and it seem like its only been like 10 minutes that it is a sign you are getting way too involved. lol.