What a great first week back, seriously! Students were in a good mood ready to do work. Friday we had a wind storm and school was dismissed at 1pm. The roads and parking lot were an ice rink and with winds of about 90 mph cars and 4-wheelers and buses were blowing all over the place. I blew off the road 5 times just trying to get back to my apartment and it's only about a mile.
My favorite announcement all year was at about 10am, they come over the intercom "sorry for the interruption, but there are many 4-wheelers blowing off the parking lot into the tundra"
Here's some pictures of the parking lot when all the students were trying to get out at 1pm. There was no bus so all the parents had to come get them- what a mess!
That's the big grating machine and all the kids skating around about to fall on their butts.I other news, my name has officially been yup'ik-ized, as a student wrote on my board:
This is Ms. Balice'aq, signing off!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
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So happy to see that you're back and haveing yet, even more new adventures. Winds blowing your ATV around, butchering moose, cold and bald eagles. Now THAT one really surprises me. We've gots lots of bald eagles in Colorado right now, and I saw them in Yellowstone at Christmas, but still in Alaska?!!! There must be some warm water around somewhere.
Well I don't know about warm water, but there's definitely water. Togiak is right on the bay.
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