Arctic Adventures

Today in middle of class a fox wandered past the school and one of my very observant students saw it.  "Look! Fox!  Bad!"  (bad=sweet, awesome. . . )  In an instant all of the kids were at the window. Here's a good quote for your book: I was running with the Middle School girls before practice today and one of the girls asked, "Where does the fat go when you run?" I asked her what she meant and she said, "Everyone always says fat goes away when you run, but where does it go?"  Coming in for the landing Our road. . . . nicknamed Riverview Drive if we need a street address for UPS.  (We only have PO Box addresses, but everyone knows where everyone lives.  There is one family who does UPS for the village, but many websites that ship by UPS won't ship here anyway). Snow-gos and Hondas..... the preferred modes of transportation.

I apologize for neglecting my blog lately.  It has been so crazy busy lately, but today made up for it.  I went out ice- fishing on the Noatak River with Tina.  It was a beautiful day!  16 degrees and bright and sunny...gorgeous!  Here we are setting up. She's all set!  Notice the couch cushion she is sitting on. Tina with her Salmon egg bait that she would shave into the holes.  Notice the "rod." Herbert was pulling up fish all day!  As soon as they stop catch fish from one hole, they just move to a new hole and try there.  Its seems that about 15 minutes is the longest waiting time. This lady was pulling up fish every few minutes it seemed! I did catch my first arctic fish (a little whitefish) and I was quite excited about it.  Tina took a picture of the event and is going to email it to me, so I will be sure to post it then :) Looking back up river. This fox kept creeping closer.   It snuck up right in the middle of the whole group! You can kind of see Noatak nestled a

Shishmaref was here playing ball this weekend and the back of their warm-ups read:  "Got Seal Oil?"  I wanted to get a picture, but felt a little weird :)  The Middle School boys challenged the Staff to a ball game before the girls' game and we accepted. . . but LOST in OT! haha It was fun and the boys really enjoyed beating their teachers! Valentine's Day is a pretty big celebration here.  We make Valentine pockets for the lockers and the kids deliver Valentine's to other students of all ages.  Even the High Schoolers come down to deliver Valentines :)