Day 39

It's been a while, let me tell you, not a lot has happened. Ha. Well, ok, that's not entirely true. But I am enjoying the slower pace of life. Not always having to rush around everywhere.

I guess I can start by telling you about the steaming experience last weekend. Steaming is pretty crazy up here, people have these little shacks for steaming. There are two rooms, one is really hot and small where the stove is, the other is cooler, there's more room to sit and relax. In Togiak the men and women go at separate times, I heard that in other places they have co-ed steaming, no thanks. The hot room is really hot, they really cook you in there, I heard that sometimes they get it up to 350 degrees. When I went we had it at about 260, not too bad. But then they splash water on the rocks-wooo! Hot! Anyway, it's a cleansing thing, it's also very social. You hang out for a couple hours, at least. Good time.

So, this week went by pretty good. I did lots of teaching. The kids did a little learning. Fun times. It's been raining A LOT, so I haven't gotten out a ton. Let me just tell you, it sucks riding a 4-wheeler in the rain without sunglasses. Your eye balls feel like they're going to burn right out of your head. Unless you just close them. which is always exciting too. Went to a teacher's house down in the village last night for some cajun food, that was fun. I also convinced Jon Sharp to help me make a mancala board.

I spent a lot of time sanding yesterday.

Also, in my spare time, I learned how to juggle scarves. Except my scarves are too heavy, so I'm not very good at it. Whatever. In Alaska you gotta have hobbies.

In tribute to the hurricane season, my current issues class made some models of cities which have been hit by different level hurricanes. This was a really fun project that got all the kids involved. Here they are, in order from 1 to 5





Hit by category 1 hurricane, this is supposedly somewhere in Africa?








Hit but category 2 hurricane, those are the twin towers, I think this group was a little confused.








Hit by category 3 hurricane, I think they named it hurricane Ling Ling







Hit by category 4 hurricane, they named it hurricane katrina, even though katrina was actually level 5.










Hit by category 5 hurricane, named hurricane Yo Momma (the blue stuff is water.)



Yep, this was a good project.

Thanks for tuning in to this week's edition of, "Well I'm out in the middle of nowhere Alaska... what am I going to do now?" Have a good day!