Day 31

I've been in Alaska for a month! And I'm still alive! I would say that's quite the accomplishment. So I've taught another week, it was a long week, even though it was actually only 4 days. I won't go into detail about my students and so forth, but I'll just tell you it's different from Michigan.

My physics curriculum finally came (2 and a half weeks into school) so it's going to be fun trying to find all the materials that I will need for all the freaking labs. But I guess the kids will like it because of how labby it is. I haven't looked at it closely enough to figure out if these labs are actually going to teach them anything about physics. We'll see.

Other exciting news, we just had a Step Up marathon, consisting of Step Up on Thursday night, and Step Up Two, The Streets, Friday night. Both excellent movies, I recommend them to anyone.

Oh, Thursday was also Parent night at school, so several of the families came to the school to meet teachers and stuff. It was sweet because these cool Yupik dancers played and danced a few traditional songs, that was awesome. Sorry I didn't have my camera with me, but I can tell you that it was neat.

Today I hiked out past the dump up Two Hill with Mark Snell, middle and high school special ed teacher, and Maddy, an energetic dalmatian. My feet are pretty tired, but my new hiking boots worked great and my feet don't feel as bad as they could after hiking about 8 miles. In this picture you can kind of see the village, waaaaay out there, then the bay just past it. So, the first row of buildings is the school, my apartment and some other newer housing, that's called Togiak Heights, then all the way down to the water is where Togiak proper is.

Look at all those lakes! If you like lakes, Togiak might be the place for you! It was very windy on top of the hill. You could see pretty far, even though it was kind of cloudy.

Well, um, still haven't decided to buy sirius. I got a gas can. I'm about to go steam for the first time. I'll let you guys know how it goes!

Chow!