Walking around ... and things I forgot to say earlier

On Wednesday I subbed for the MS/HS English teacher. I got to watch the same ~20 minutes of Hunger Games: Catching Fire 4 times that day. The MS/HS kids were great, they wanted to know where I was from, what I was doing in Alaska, and were all around pretty cool kids.

Thursday morning one of the MS kids came down to the 3rd grade classroom because I told them I was subbing there. He gave me a hug and said, "Thanks for being my sub yesterday." It was sweet! I love it when that happens. It makes the difficult ones less difficult.

Today I walked around town, taking pictures. I walked to the beach, all the way along the road to the end of it, then back into town. Not sure how long the walk was, but I'm pretty sure it was a couple of miles. I didn't walk close to the water because I wasn't sure where the ice pack started, nor how thick it was. There were piles of ice on the beach that were probably taller than I am. When I got here, the ocean was completely frozen over. Now it's breaking up. It might freeze again, but who knows?




Some of the town has running water and plumbing. Some of the town does not. They have to travel in their 4 wheelers up the side of the mountain to get water for their families. There are pictures near the end of the area where the water pump is.

I also stopped by the store today and picked up a few items. They had potatoes!

Things are expensive here. 

Photo by Eric Camp -- Russia! 

Photo by Eric Camp -- The Gym at the school

I couldn't see Russia today, but I stole a picture from the mountain that Eric took a while ago. He also took the picture of the polar bear in the gym.

The school with the mountain behind.

The other part of the mountain

The road to the beach

The beach

Snow buried boats

Boats

This is the old elementary school, it is now teacher housing

Looking towards the school from the other end of town

A dog that walked with me today. For Breanna. If she was here, she would want all the dogs that walk around town.

My house

The old playground

Sunset 3/1/14

To the left of this hut is where the town gets their drinking water if they do not have running water. The load up gas cans or water cans on their 4 wheelers and then drive them up to get water for their homes. It's pretty far up the side of the mountain. 

The little speck is where the house from the above picture is.