tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72461257325754084742024-02-19T01:54:06.542-08:00On The Road With The RippersThe Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-3772726194810568172013-03-27T18:35:00.000-07:002013-03-27T18:42:30.137-07:00Curios QuestionsSometimes I forget how unique of a place we live in. We treated ourselves to ordering pizza... we ordered from a place over 250 miles away and a plane brought it. Then we had to pick it up from the air port. So we got on a snow-go and drove out to the landing strip in -20 degree weather.<br />
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When we walk to work we cover almost every inch of our skin and look out for polar bears and foxes on the way. I have an escape plan on if I do encounter one on the way and I know the closest house door to where I am.<br />
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I traveled with the ski team over the weekend to another school in our district. We didn't take a bus, we took a plane. We slept on the floor of the school for three days. As we landed I had one student say, "I've never seen trees before!"<br />
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I brought a pine cone back from our trip and had it sitting on my desk to show my class during science. All day kids kept picking it up so curious about what it was and asking, "what's this?"<br />
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We have been collecting a list of interesting questions that we have been asked up here. I think these questions, some funny, some serious, give a good insight of how we are living. Here is our list of questions we were never asked before we moved to Shishmaref:<br />
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"Has anyone invited you duck hunting yet?"<br />
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"Do you want to go to the dump this weekend?"<br />
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"When are you going to start your tribe?"<br />
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"Do you want to see my cute little Eskimo carving?"<br />
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"You only have one sister?"<br />
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"Are your pipes still frozen?"<br />
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"How do you like not showering everyday?<br />
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"Can you cut my hair?"<br />
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By Students:<br />
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"May I take a drink?"<br />
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"Is that your real eye color?"<br />
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Student: "Lisa, what's your Eskimo name?"<br />
Lisa: "I don't have one."<br />
S: "How come?"<br />
L: "I'm not Eskimo."<br />
S: "Oh, are you Indian?"<br />
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"May I take a fresh air?"<br />
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"When is cheerleading practice?"<br />
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"Is there ski practice today?"<br />
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"How come you don't got any kids?"<br />
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"Why are you white?"<br />
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"What's traffic?"<br />
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"Can I call you mom?" <br />
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"How come?"<br />
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"I like your necklace, who made it?"<br />
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"Can we visit?"<br />
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Directed to Mike:<br />
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"Why are you so hairy?"<br />
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We will keep our ears open for more questions that make us smile and be thankful for where we are and we will share them with you when they come our way!The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-45742749362948475162013-02-24T21:15:00.001-08:002013-02-24T21:15:07.798-08:00Catch Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Alright. We did not realize how long it has been since we have updated our blog so you get a special treat today. Usually we like to have a theme to our blog but while I was looking at pictures we have acquired over the last two months I noticed that we did not have any big events but rather a collection of a few pictures here and a few pictures there of this and that. So, this post's job is to catch you up on what we have been up to for the past few months. Enjoy!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our friend Edwin invites us over for dinner sometimes. He always feeds us some sort of Eskimo food.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This kiddo was over and Edwin offered</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> him food too. He was happy to eat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was our last meal at Edwin's. A year and half ago I would not have dreamed of eating this meal. But I ate the whole fish and enjoyed it! (not the eyes though : ) I left those to the boys.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making Christmas cookies for my class.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then I decided to make cookies With my class. They were handed out at the Christmas program.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of our parents made this for our Christmas party. It's a Santa cake, isn't it cool?!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I got these blankets for my class this year. They all loved them! Then they all decided to try to be Linus from Charlie Brown. That's why some are sucking their thumbs and why they all have them over their heads.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the way to PA for Christmas break. This is the view out the plane window at the "air port."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When I looked out the other window on my side of the plane I noticed the sun set/rise... at 1PM.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally made it home for Christmas break! We brought back some Eskimo food and berries. This is my cousin, PJ, trying and liking some berries!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now my sister's turn... she's not sure about it...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She likes them!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you don't know... every year on Christmas Eve we have a Rock, Paper, Scissors contest... the winner of the contest wins a fun hat and is in charge of bringing the hat the next year. This year I made it to the final two but was out witted by Ben!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now we're back in Shishmaref. There have been a few polar bears around. We have looked up how to protect ourselves if we are out and about and run into a polar bear. This polar bear was shot during the school day and was brought by the school. How many people can say, "oh, I took my class out to see a polar bear today?!" P.S. notice the childen with no coat... not even cold!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few of our little cheerleaders getting ready for a basket ball game.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I snapped this picture at church. The choir is singing... please notice the littlest member of the choir who went up and got a book on his own : )</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My class is all dressed up, we are getting ready for the Christmas program!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here we are performing at the program. All We Want for Christmas is Our Two Front Teeth!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now we're going on an Elf hunt.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike was so excited to see Santa!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These two decided they wanted to be our children for this picture... for real, they wouldn't leave 'till we took one with them!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made my own candle! I melted all the leftovers of the old candles and poured them in this one! You have to be crafty up here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike and I got seal skin slippers this year. Our friend made them for us and they are so warm!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There were some pretty cool northern lights out. I only got a few pictures though because my battery died quickly in the cold. This is the side of our house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blurry but bright!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike surprised me with flowers for Valentine's day. Do you like the Alaska style vase?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was playing with my tripod after taking pictures of the flowers. Here is some of our Alaska art.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of my class working on oil pastels for the art show. They were very proud of their art and put a lot of hard work into them!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We picked up garbage around the school to be good citizens in our community.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's been too cold to go out for ski practice so we have been practicing some laser shooting inside.</td></tr>
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<br />The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-30270917807242992402012-12-16T22:33:00.000-08:002012-12-16T22:34:15.041-08:0012 Hours in Shishmaref<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I would have to say the most common questions asked about us being here are, "How cold is it there?" and "How much snow do you have?" But people forget to associate the amount of sunlight in the day with how far north we are and honestly, last year, the amount of light outside took us more time to get acclimated to than the temperature. Yes it is -9 degrees outside and feels like -24, yes we have a little bit of snow. I gave myself a project of taking a picture outside our front door every hour so you could see the light throughout the day. Feel honored because I had to get out of bed at 8AM on a weekend to do this!</div>
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<br />The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-56627962993400767462012-12-15T12:05:00.001-08:002012-12-15T12:05:13.476-08:00Our Thanksgiving<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Want to know how we celebrate Thanksgiving in Shishmaref? First, we sleep in a little bit because we have been looking forward to this break from school for a long time! When we wake up, we get ready for the day and get to church just in time for it to start at 11:00. After a lovely church service Mike goes home to play Xbox and I go over to watch the Thanksgiving parade that has been DVR'd with some friends. When we have seen Santa Claus come to town we all go our separate ways. Mike and I make green bean casserole and mashed potatoes to take to the feast that night!</div>
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Every year there is a feast in they gym at the school. The men make reindeer or caribou stew for the community. All the tables are set up and covered with paper. There is bread, butter at each table. Stew and juice is provided, and anything else you want at your table, you bring. The walls are decorated with Thanksgiving art from the kiddos at school. You have to get there early or all the tables will be taken. You also need to bring your own bowl, cup, spoon, and whatever else you want for your food.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my students came to visit us at our table</td></tr>
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My students remind me that me and Mike are in love everyday... as if I didn't know.</div>
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After everyone is full of good stew we leave, take our leftover food, stew, and now dirty plates and go home for a little bit to digest. While we are gone, the tables are being put away and everything is being cleaned up. After about an hour of being home (when we start hearing all the four wheelers drive past) we head back to the school for the festivities! This year they did Eskimo dancing and played some community basketball games!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For the last dance they called all the teachers and staff to come down and dance! What fun!</td></tr>
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The Friday after Thanksgiving we have a Thanksgiving meal that we are more used to. We get together with a few friends and have a potluck meal and play some games afterwards!</div>
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We enjoyed our Thanksgiving break with new experiences, good friends, and the challenge of making our own dinner! We learn a little bit more each year and we are thankful for the people in our lives, our friends, our family, and the lives we are living!The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-35161356025592760092012-11-07T22:13:00.001-08:002012-12-09T22:11:10.732-08:00Speechless<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For anyone who ever doubted or still doubts us coming here. I want you to look closely as this picture and know that I am grateful everyday that God has blessed us with this adventure.The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-49527474023226557322012-11-04T19:31:00.003-08:002012-11-04T19:31:35.841-08:00A Happy Halloween<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another Halloween come and gone. This year we were much more
prepared with costumes, candy, and what to expect. We got one more
trick-or-treater this year. Last year we got 147 and this year we got 148!</div>
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This is my 2nd grade class all dressed up for Halloween. No
one was absent this year! It was a great Halloween and there were a lot of good
costumes! I am the Cat in the Hat and Rachel (the Sped. teacher and our
neighbor is Minnie Mouse)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the parents made this awesome cake for our Halloween party. Isn't it cool?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of our treats from parents. There was also popcorn but it was being popped during this picture. We get sooooo many snacks! Only 17 kids in our class so this is a lot of food!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All my kiddos without the teachers : )</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of our friends here. Their daughter is also in my class!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heather, Nathan, and Pastor. Heather left the next day to go to Anchorage to wait for their new baby!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the staff at SHH. The man in the orange hat is our principal.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At then end of the day on Halloween all the elementary and any middle and high school kids who have costumes go into the gym and they have a parade! Everyone walks around in a circle and family members all come to see their costumes and take pictures.</td></tr>
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I will now post a lot of pictures of cute kids in costumes so you can see some cute kids and costumes!<br />
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<br />The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-49326829763902357572012-09-29T12:15:00.000-07:002012-09-29T12:15:06.363-07:00Our House by the Sea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We are going to take you on an exclusive tour of the Ripper residence in Shishmaref Alaska. Do not be fooled by apparent size of outside of the house. Also, note many personal touches to make our house a home.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a picture of the outside of our house. There are two apartments in one. The left side of the house (the two story side) is where Rachel and Donna reside. The right side of the house is our apartment. You can see the steps leading up to the door and about where the paint starts to fade is where our house start. The only thing we share between the houses is a 150 gallon water tank which is half the size of what we had last year with double the people which results us in hauling water about once a week. We are going to order some 50 gallon cans to hold water too which will hopefully result in us filling up less often. If I had taken the picture a little more to the left you would have been able to see the sea wall behind it in the distance. This picture was taken in front of our friends, The Kokeok's house, showing we are close by a lot of people we like to spend time with. If Mike and I are late for work we have a 6 minute walk to the school. If we are just walking to the store or visit somewhere it is about a 10 minute walk to the school.</td></tr>
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In case you were not aware, we did move houses from last year. About three days before our flights were coming to take us to Pennsylvania for the summer we were told we had to move. So we spent our last days of our first year hauling little cart full after little cart full of stuff with the four wheeler (quad) through the slush and mud. Thanks to a few good friends or we would have never been able to move our stuff in time.<br />
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When you first walk into the house you go into the kunituq (arctic entry) which is small, damp, and dank so I didn't bother taking pictures. Last year we left our boots and things in our spacious and illuminated kunituq, this year we just use ours as a shield from the wind while unlocking the door. We also leave the kunituq door unlocked and lock the inside door so we can get in quickly in case there is bad weather or bears. This is common practice among people so we feel safe if we are walking out and about and we do see some sort of wild life we can just duck into anyone's kunituq and be safe. Also with the recent sightings of bears close to and in the village we have been extra cautious about this.<br />
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After you unlock the door to our house you first enter the living room/ kitchen area which is connected to a middle storage room and then goes into our bedroom. Since I uploaded the pictures backwards and our internet is slow and limited you get a backwards tour. If it really concerns you, you may go to the bottom of the blog and work your way up for a proper tour : )<br />
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Our bed room is huge! Really, we have our bed and dressers on one side and then I have room for a craft table/area on the other half! We also have nice wood paneling this year that gives our house a more cabinish and warm feeling. Also, former tenant, took the time to wallpaper some of the house so we did not have to do that either!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My dresser featuring photo of me and Mike, gifts from Aunt Janet, Christ signs from Ruth, Elephant snow cone cup from circus, trolls from Dad, rose from Mike's valentine last year, and birthday card from Mom : )</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our little bathroom is off of the middle connecting room. Here you see birthday floor mat from last year and honey bucket. The mat is really nice this year because my socks stick to the carpet (kind of Velcro-ish).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In case you were wondering what the honey bucket and bin consisted of... a bucket... and a box... interesting</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For some funny reason the electrician this summer thought it would be convenient to make our bathroom light turn on only when our bedroom light is on. So, if Mike has to use the restroom in the middle of the night then he has to turn on the bedroom lights... well it didn't take us long to figure out this wasn't going to work for us so we finagled this little fixture so you don't have to turn the bedroom light on. So when you go to the bathroom (it's always dark because there are no windows in the middle room) you have to open the door, blindly swing your hand around above you until you feel the lamp and then twist it on.</td></tr>
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Sneak Peek of the Living Room: <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike hanging up the lantern.</td></tr>
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The Middle Room:<br />
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We mostly use the middle room for storage. You will notice a door that goes into the other side of the house. This is convenient when we want to visit Rachel or Donna or want to borrow something, or need to fill the water tank which is on their side. The stairs also go up to a door to Rachel's bedroom.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see door and stairs, also the hose we use when we are pumping water from the tank we hauled outside to the cistern inside. If you are able to spy the blue thing on the stairs, that is the pump, we put it into the tank and hook it to the hose and it pumps the water inside for us.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whoops, I left the door open to the bathroom haha. Now you know where the bathroom is :) You can see some of the storage shelves and makeshift bookshelves.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Creeper stairs" up to Rachel's room. Don't worry... we don't creep.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just some more storage. Also you can see the door to the living room.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">The Living room/ Kitchen:</td><td style="text-align: center;"> </td><td style="text-align: center;"> </td><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJEM_tTbGdEmnM3_Tp0GP77u9DV7aU9bGheSlihEwTHgJhejjBWgn61Ckv5uge_P-0xmfO2BieMGbBwSyUWicIe4xcB4dJ9s6NyzXFYmXFFhZzMILn5S9HgBtqRuq8Au-CnlhH86CVGw/s400/IMG_9534.JPG" width="400" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our view out the window. I took this one to be silly, you have to stand at an awkward angle for this view of our honey bucket bin. Yup, that's where we dump the honey bucket when it's full, we also share this with Rachel and Donna. Then when that gets full we call someone who works for the city and the come wearing suits and suck it all out with a giant hose... don't ask me where it goes after that because I don't know and I don't ask.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our real view from our window. We have much better views than last year, house, house, school. This year we can see down this road, out towards the sea wall, and over towards the church. See that tall red building on the right? That's the "Walter's Store."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maybe a little more clear. The little light catcher in the corner was a birthday present from one of our neighbors : )</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tada! That door is the main door we would come in from outside. The kitchen and living room are kind of one.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another angle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitchen mostly. That door is to the middle room.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our TV stand. Former tenant made it out of old bunk beds!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close up of sun catcher. Did I mention I'm taking these pictures with my new lens Mike got me for my birthday? So I'm having a little fun with that, that is why there are so many pictures!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mom's quilt above our couch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wedding gift from Kate beside our couch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two kiddos decided that they would like to call Mike, "Uncle," instead of dad and spelled it on our fridge.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They still refer to me as, "Mom" though.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our fridge, we like when people send us pictures! We are running out of magnets though... (hint hint : )</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The side of our fridge with lots of picture from kiddos.</td></tr>
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Thank you for joining us this day our on a tour of our humble abode. Until next time...The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-42301254255193696492012-09-08T23:46:00.001-07:002012-09-08T23:46:51.053-07:00Seward Bound<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Alright! So after our full first day north of Anchorage we had a busy second day planned south of Anchorage. We took the recommendations of my dad and decided to drive south. He described it as, "every sight I saw was just like, 'wow, this is the most beautiful sight I have ever seen. Wow, This is the most beautiful sight I have ever seen. WOW, THIS is the most beautiful sight I have ever seen..." and so on... and we have to say... we agree! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was a little foggier and cloudier at the beginning of our day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We didn't see any belugas even though we sang the song :(</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike collecting some glacier water for dad. Sorry to ruin the surprise! I hope it's not illegal...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We saw a whale breech (jump)! We didn't get a picture of it jumping but this is the splash it made!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Racing the clock to get our car back to the car rental place before midnight! You can see how bright it is out at what time... and it stayed light a lot later too!</td></tr>
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<br />The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-77502009330870646752012-09-01T12:37:00.001-07:002012-09-01T12:38:55.261-07:00Wasilla!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We spent a couple days in and around Anchorage on our way back up to Shishmaref this year. We only had two days to travel around but we filled them up and have a list of things we still want to do for next time. Our first day we slept in a little bit, rented our first rental car, and ventured up to Wasilla where we visited some friends. We first stopped at Lori and John's house. Lori was our mentor as first year teachers. She came to Shishmaref, helped in our classrooms, observed us teaching, and always brought us fresh food : ) She became our friend and invited us to visit if we were ever staying in Anchorage. So we did! We didn't have long with them but they took us hiking up to Hatcher Pass (their dog is named Hatcher after it).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One view from our hiking adventure, you can see a road that winds through. We drove on one like this to get where we were going.</td></tr>
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We had a very nice visit with them and are sad to find out that Lori won't be our mentor again this year but we have been keeping in touch. Every where we turned the sights just kept getting prettier and prettier. We learned about red algae (ask Mike), saw some beautiful sights, and enjoyed the cool air. It was nice to be outside without sweating! "It smells like... trees and dirt," Mike announced at one point and I think this pretty much summed up our trip north of Anchorage.<br />
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We also visited some friends we had made in Shishmaref who then moved to Wasilla (live about 15 minutes from Lori) I wish we had taken some pictures there but we just didn't think of it! One of their daughters was in my class last year so it was fun to see her just a little bit older. We got to see their fancy new house, visit into the wee hours, and have some savory steak and potato salad! However, they did promise we would see moose when we were driving back to our hotel and we didn't! Seeing moose is still on my list!The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-58787035145441424052012-04-28T19:43:00.000-07:002012-04-28T19:43:01.037-07:00Iditarod - Mush - Mush When in Alaska... The school's spring breaks in our district align with when the Iditarod mushers will be coming through/near their village. So for spring break we took a trip to Nome, Alaska to see the end of the race!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The teachers we went with: Erick, Lisa, Mike, Lani, Zach, and Rachel</td></tr>
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<br />The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-55614307389701460062012-02-18T18:37:00.000-08:002012-02-18T18:37:12.331-08:00Field Trip to the Post Office!<span style="font-size: large;">We are pen palling with Michelle's class. After we finished our last letters we practiced addressing the envelopes, putting the stamps on the letters and dropping them off at the post office. As a special treat, the Post Master, Mark, took us on a behind the scenes tour!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Haha. Waiting in line to go behind the scenes. Silly Children!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was their favorite part. Seeing the back of all of the P.O. Boxes where their mail gets put and how it is marked with the names.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really wanted to take a good picture but I couldn't get them to not make silly faces! Oh well, you can see them at their finest : ) This also happens to be a day when a lot were sick. You can see seven here, two were lagging behind, and usually we have 12.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-87125986127516011132012-01-23T21:30:00.001-08:002012-02-09T19:44:57.645-08:00Serpentine with the Steneks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A Christ Sign is like a Christmas ornament made of seal skins and decorated with beautiful beads. When we first got her I saw how beautiful they were and loved the name of them and knew I wanted a bunch of them for Christmas presents. We asked around and found out that our neighbor made them and so we place a "small order."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It turns out that the patterns for the Christ Signs were still at our neighbors camp on the mainland and so they were taking one last boat ride to get the patterns and a few other left over things. They were so kind as to invite us on this trip and these are a few of the beautiful pictures we left with!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The boat ride out there. I want to say it took about 45 minutes to get there. The water was really shallow in some places, so shallow that they needed to get out and push! We traveled with our neighbor and his wife and four of their six kids! The boy next to mike is one of my second graders. A bit bright out on the way there!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you look closely on the skyline you can see the village. We are on the lagoon looking out to the village on the other side of the village would be the sea. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">: ) Me and one of their girls, she is also one of our third grade cheerleaders!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is outside of their camp. She showed me where they pick some berries and we collected a few.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ahhh the beautiful sunset!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the entire camp!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ken, I just wanted to let you know what Mike was teaching your child in the back of the boat on the way home... haha. I also want to point out the cute sleepy head, he slept the whole way home even when the waves were kind of choppy!</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>We had a fabulous time. It was a while ago so I forget some of the details now. All we know for sure was that our neighbors were super kind to invite us and we enjoyed it so! I also remember my feet getting incredibly cold, so cold in face that I pulled out a pair of socks they were taking home and put them on on the way home. This was in September so it brings us warm memories in the bitter cold.The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-47794420634562874922011-11-27T12:02:00.000-08:002011-11-27T12:02:55.897-08:00"Walking In A Winter Wonderland!" (Our first big snow walks)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This post will mostly be pictures. We got two decently sized snow falls in a row so these are pictures of us walking around during and after the two.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As we start off you will notice that we have the usual gaggle of students following us with their cute faces. Usually it's younger children who follow us, in the elementary, but every now and then some of Mike's high schoolers are thrown into the mix as well.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It always starts with one or maybe two little ones, and then they slowly accumulate until we have a whole group!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It also often surprises us that really anyone plays with anyone. When they knock on our door to visit they are sometimes the most unlikely group of kids together.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike walking ahead in the snow. You can't really tell but it is snowing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little girl just grabbed Mike's hand to walk with.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The little boy in this picture is one of my student's younger brothers. I didn't even know he had a little brother and he was just so darn cute!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first Shishmaref Snow Angel!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now you can tell it's snowing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's not really that cold!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you'll notice, we picked up two more children by this point haha.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike's turn!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kids love Mike. He probably the third tallest man on this island and definitely the hairiest!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">These next pictures are during the day after the next biggish snow. Eric joined us as we explored the lagoon side of the island again.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erick and Mike in the setting sun. This is the same boat we were at the night before.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking back at the village. The second to last building, the tall white one, is the church.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erick and Mike.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike with a boat!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"HUGE (in Shish)"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Usually I'm the one taking the pictures so I don't get to be in them.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking towards the ice. You can see clearly where the water begins.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm standing on the ice! Barely.. but it still counts.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the ice together. We knew we were safe because we saw a snow machine drive out onto the ice just before we stepped on it. We could go out further but in honor of our parents, this is all the farther we went : )</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They call piggy back riding, "amucking" here. I don't know if that's how you spell it but that is how it sounds. The kids always ask Mike, "will you amuck me?" You have to be careful though when you say it though because "anuck" means poop.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now this is actually on the ocean, or technically sea, side of the island. I just thought it was so stunning to see the snow and the ocean.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here we go. Finally a picture of one of Mike's student's who joined us while we were looking out. It's nice when people join us because they always tell us stories about hunting, or myths, or warnings.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see the ice cicles.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is standing in the same spot, just looking in the opposite direction.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If we walk backwards about 10 feet we would be standing on this road. The yellow building on the right is the Native Store and they greyish building next to it is part of the old school where some of the teachers live now.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Standing in the same place just turned around you can see the new playground.</td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEios9F38L8dkFdhiJ_IFcaHSJHVvveunfhArQDcGY8xl69BCZv6A4ZfZvvTuTgMGURkpkHKKVp5tlb6nEdrDkexrSk78K4ntUHVHRgxtP7z0DJYGM1kb29T8QGkn8tGZkOaAFmIJskDYg/s1600/IMG_5292.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEios9F38L8dkFdhiJ_IFcaHSJHVvveunfhArQDcGY8xl69BCZv6A4ZfZvvTuTgMGURkpkHKKVp5tlb6nEdrDkexrSk78K4ntUHVHRgxtP7z0DJYGM1kb29T8QGkn8tGZkOaAFmIJskDYg/s640/IMG_5292.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">I hope you now have your fill of snowy Shishmaref. It really hasn't snowed much since these snows but nothing has melted either! We will continue to post beautiful snowy pictures I am sure as they surface!</span>The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-15874670816149315072011-11-13T02:36:00.000-08:002011-11-13T02:40:51.293-08:00"Can We Visit?"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">From the very first day Mike and I moved in, we have had people knocking on our door constantly! Okay, maybe it has slowed down a little bit... an ency weensy tiny bit. But none-the-less, after working a 12 hour day, we come home, sit down, take a breath, and the inevitable knock comes... followed by, "Can we visit?!"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This has taken some getting used to, but don't get us wrong, we do enjoy it! It surprises us how many times our door gets knocked on and at what times too! Our most frequent visitors are the kids. Whom we love to see their smiling faces on our door step.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is how a usual door conversation will a little kiddie will go: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Knock! Knock! Knock! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Opens door. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Can we visit!" shout the children in their sing song voices. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Not tonight." We reply as tired old people. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"How come?" they ask in return. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Because we just got home and are making dinner."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Can we visit after dinner?"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Maybe."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Okay, we'll wait out here."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Well, it still has 15 minutes to cook and then we have to eat it so it's going to be a little while, why don't you go play and come back in about a half hour?"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Okay..." Then when you think they might actually do what you suggested, "Want to know something?"<br />
"What?"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then they proceed to tell us some silly story about something.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Oh, wow, okay, I'm going to close the door because I'm getting cold!"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Is Mike there?" They say, doing anything to delay you closing the door.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Yes, he is cooking dinner."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Oh, we want to tell him something."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So I go and get Mike because I know that me relaying the message will not be good enough for them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mike comes to the door.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Can we visit?"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Not right now?"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"How come?" They ask again, as if my word wasn't good enough for them. : )</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Because we're making dinner."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Guess what?"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"What?"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">They then proceed to tell or show Mike something silly such as how they can slide down our banister.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Cool, okay, I'm going to go because I need to finish making dinner."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Tell Lisa to come back..."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And so on.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Usually the kids forget to come back. And they usually tell us that they plan on just waiting on our little porch until we let them visit. We have tested this and they will stay on the porch unless we tell them to do otherwise! They used to be able to climb on the railing and peek in our window to make sure we were actually doing what we said we were doing but then my wonderful mother sent us curtains so this can no longer take up their waiting time! Sometimes they show up minutes later with more children thinking that perhaps we cannot turn them down since there are more children this time! Sometimes they come back several times with different children, as if we would let certain ones visit and not others. Sometimes a simple, "not right now," is good enough and they leave, other times they kick their shoe in the door before we close it forcing us to open it again.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We have also come to know certain peoples knocks and we make a prediction before we open the door. "Sounds like and Erick knock," we might say before nosing who has to get off the couch. Or, "sounds like child knock." Two of my students in particular, I can always tell if it's them because one knocks nice and respectfully (we always mistake her for an adult when she is alone) and the other kicks the door three times. "Oh ________ and ________ are at the door!"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">If it's not a child wanting to visit, the second most common person to knock on our door will be someone who wants to sell us a piece of art. These are usually men, sometimes they are Mike's students. We usually admire the work and ask them some questions, sometimes we buy and sometimes we don't. Then the seller takes off right after we decide. We have one person though who always comes right on in (we recognize his knock : ) ) and he sits down for a little. He will tell us about the art, what it is made of and if there is a story behind it. He also shares stories with us about his family and Shishmaref. He always tells us what he is making for dinner. Today he told us he just finished eating a, "white man sandwich" which made me smile. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The third most common visitors are the other teachers, mainly Erick, who wants to come over and shoot zombies with Mike and play Left 4 Dead II. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think we get more little girls who want to visit than boys, we don't let them in very often, because we really are busy, and when we do let them in we set a time limit of about 5 minutes. It beats me why they would want to visit their teachers on the weekend anyways! The boys used to visit a lot because they wanted to play XBox with Mike and they would ask me in the middle of the day, "Can we come and play XBox after school?!" My one student always asks me, "Can I come play XMen at your house?" We don't even have XMen but he said he will bring his copy. Today, I had the best visitor though because it was two of my students (the mature knocker and the three kicker) and when I opened the door they said they had made me something. The one's mom had been teaching them to knit and she knitted me a bracelet! It made me so happy because usually, I can tell, they color a picture and then decide they don't want it so they give it to me. But sometimes they make a card or something and I know it was for me because it has my name on it and I know it wasn't an after thought. So I thought the bracelet was so sweet!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Besides wanting to visit, sometimes, well actually every time we are walking around and a child comes across us they ask, "Can we follow?" Which means, "Can we tag-along." Well of course we can't say, "No!" So no matter where we walk we almost always have little ones trailing along with us but they keep us company. It is especially fun if they follow us to the store because they then all want to carry our bags back for us : ) One time, I went to the post office and a little boy insisted on carrying my heavy box back for me. I didn't even know who he was yet. It was so heavy he actually fell over once while carrying it, not that it was a far fall, and he had soft sand to land on, and even though I felt bad he wouldn't let me help and he insisted on doing it! What a gentleman!</span></div><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So until next time, "You cannot visit right now, why don't you come back in about a half an hour?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"How long is that? We need a watch."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Go run around the island one time and then it will be about a half an hour."</span></div>The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-32837887642616053722011-10-23T21:33:00.000-07:002011-10-23T21:33:51.426-07:00The Geography of Sish<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These pictures are from a few different walks around Shishmaref. Shish is an island that is more long than wide. It's short going east to west and long going north to south. On the west side it looks to the Chukchi Sea north of the Bering Strait and on the east you can look out over the "lagoon." Across the lagoon you can see the main land. These pictures are mostly along the long part of the island running north to south. South goes towards the dump. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sea wall that was put up to keep the island from eroding into the sea. In other places the sea wall is much larger and some places it is nonexistent. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see how close the sea wall is to some of the housing. This building is teacher housing and is part of the old school.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I do not remember what these racks are called but they use them to hang animals out to "dry." The child's wagon made a cool picture I thought.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see some of the ribs and things drying. The salt from the ocean in the air helps preserve the meat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the post office! We check the mail religiously! We believe the Post master lives upstairs and the post office is on the bottom story. If we walked around to the other side you could see our house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">While walking around we ran into one of the other teachers who said she was going over to watch this person cut up some fish so we tagged along. She is originally from Shishmaref but now lives in the lower 48 with her husband and family. She comes home ever summer with her kids so they know the culture and visit their family.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A close up. The tool she is using in called an ulu.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">This is now the North side of the island.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look how thick the insulation for the winter!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old runway and the people we were walking with.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These dogs will be used for dog mushing! They stay outside all year long but all the dogs are tied up.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just a pretty picture : )</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike walking along the Chukchi Sea.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking back at Shishmaref.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We found this old decomposing walrus!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last tree of Shishmaref.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note: This is not a tree but a stick stuck in the sand. There are no trees in Shishmaref.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Shadows!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erick, from Florida who was still getting used to the cold, Lani, from Oregon, and Amy, from Ohio. They are all teachers and we were exploring together.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lisa and Mike on the sound. This is the very tip of the north of the island.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking back along the "lagoon" side. You can see Ear Mountain which is on the mainland.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Most of the island is just sand so it was nice to see some flowers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking back through the marsh as a short cut but it got too marshy so we had to go back along the coast.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We came across this caribou that someone had shot.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike feeling the antlers. There is a kind of fur on them which makes them smooth.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old air strip, it has eroded right into the water. The new air strip now runs north to south, the longer way the island goes, but is not as ideal for landing on with the way the wind blows.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This basketball hoop is right on the old air strip.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Notice the cute little dog on the steps!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We don't know how this got there! We have learned, that since it is so difficult to get things on the island, when something stops working, such as this airplane, they don't take it to the dump or get rid of it because the parts may be able to be used for something else. Which makes sense but then you end of with a lot of old things sitting in random places.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The setting sun.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This building here is the church.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hence, the random things sitting everywhere! Note: Ear mountain in the background.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As we were walking we had to be tourists when we saw this polar bear fur hanging out. Yes, we asked permission before we just started taking pictures.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Now you have had a tour of the outskirts of Shishmaref! It is Mike's job to take you on the tour of the dump and we will attempt to get some more pictures inside the village for you to view in the near future! </span>The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-910133296374868282011-10-15T16:09:00.000-07:002011-10-15T16:09:54.817-07:00The Polar Bear Plunge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The before shot. Nice and warm and dry. From left to right: Colleen, Erick, Lani, Lisa, Mike, Amy, Pastor's Friend (I don't remember his name : / )</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">The week before school, Amy knocked on our door, "Are you ready for the polar bear plunge?" So Mike and I put on our "just in case swimsuits" and prepared for the cold of the Chukchi sea.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another before shot, when we are at the beach and about to take the plunge. Mike is nervous.</td></tr>
</tbody></table> <span style="font-size: large;">There are apparently rules for the plunge. In order for it to count you have to run out at least waist high, completely submerge under water and take at least a few strokes before you run back out. Our designated photographer took this photo. I may be way in front of the rest of people, but I would like to point out that Mike and Erick, the boys, were the first ones out.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggFw4o5bvccdpa5COs3_PuA8-xaGPee47fKs0wW798731k-Xm2DRGjNjt619zcll6j8mCZMoY5Iv6-yOqR2j_v1IRnpkMlbzEUadewNVr8oWMwAJH1QtOjMd1KYTlvMd32RT7GRok7YA/s1600/100_6673.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggFw4o5bvccdpa5COs3_PuA8-xaGPee47fKs0wW798731k-Xm2DRGjNjt619zcll6j8mCZMoY5Iv6-yOqR2j_v1IRnpkMlbzEUadewNVr8oWMwAJH1QtOjMd1KYTlvMd32RT7GRok7YA/s400/100_6673.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;">The coldest part of the whole adventure was the ride there. We rode in the back of a pick up truck, dreading the cold ride back. When running into the sea, it is as cold as you think it will be, however once your head is underwater you feel at peace and warm, the run back out of the sea just feels warmer and warmer and when standing on the ocean you don't feel as cold as you did before you went in the water. Maybe your body is just at shock and doesn't know how cold it is.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The after shot. Not quite a honeymoon in Punta Cana, but we did get a little sun in!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another after shot. It's not really that cold, you just feel like you should be : )</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The worst part was trying to get the sand off, because you knew you would be cold on the way back so you wanted to put socks and shoes and clothes on but not with sand in them!</td></tr>
</tbody></table> <span style="font-size: large;">We drove very far from town before Colleen and Amy decided we were at the perfect part of the beach, about a 20 minute ride. The farther we went, the more we first timers were concerned we would be frostbitten on the way back.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some high schoolers on a four wheeler decided to follow us down the beach to watch.</td></tr>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">Great way to end our summer vacation before beginning or first real teaching jobs!</span>The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-73168469478932869812011-09-17T14:33:00.000-07:002011-09-17T14:33:28.987-07:00How The Water Works<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When we got the call to teach in Alaska, the first thing they did was ask if we were still interested in coming to Alaska, the second thing they did was tell us that there was no running water in the housing we would be in if we were offered the job. "With that being said are you still interested in taking the job?" </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Really in the grand scheme of decision making, the fact that they had no running water didn't weigh heavy with us. The people here live with it, all the teacher's live with it. It is what they know.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Not that I enjoy not having running water, but I do enjoy knowing that I am not wasting water. (I also feel a little Laura Ingelsish!) The students and everyone here is very aware of the water situation. When my second graders wash their hands they turn the water off when they get soap and back on to rinse. When someone has the water on for a long time, the others will turn around and tell them to turn the water off, "we can't waste it!"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Families here can go to the Washateria to shower and wash laundry... to wash and dry a load of laundry is $16 so you can imagine that it isn't done extremely often. In the elementary school every class has a certain time one day a week where the children are allowed to shower in school. Parents come in to volunteer supervising and thus get a free shower as well. I have only had one shower day so far but the kids were so excited about it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I don't know about everyone but Mike and I, and most of the houses I have seen, have what is called a cistern. A cistern is basically I giant plastic barrel that holds water. Our cistern holds 300 gallons of water. To get water into your cistern you are supposed to get a truck, take a sort of travel cistern, drive to the Washateria, use a hose to get water from the Washateria (I think it's about $4 for 50 gallons), roll the hose back up, drive to your house, and pump the water into your cistern, then take the cistern and truck back. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mike and I are lucky; since we live right across from the school we can attach a hose to the school and run it straight into our house. Our neighbor has a hose on his porch and he lets us borrow it and the key to the water. It takes about 45 minutes to fill our cistern.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
The water runs from the cistern through a water pump and pumps it into pipes so it is basically like we have running water for sinks and showers. We are very aware of how much water we are using. For example, it takes about 15 gallons of water for a 15 minute shower. We use minimum water when washing dishes. It feels like we have running water, we just have to fill the tank every 2 - 3 weeks. (We met someone who said they will fill the cistern any time for $15, which we might take up when it is 40 below!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The biggest difference in our plumbing life is that we have no flush toilet. We have what is called a honey bucket. You kind of get used to not using the toilet at anyone else house and no one really asks at our house (except the kids, who don't care haha but we still don't let them) "I have to use the bathroom!" "Well, you can't go here, you have to go home..." "Never mind!"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The bathroom doesn't have a heating vent so it is very cold but it helps it not smell. Basically, a honey bucket, is a bucket... with a garbage bag in it... and you put a plywood box with a toilet seat on it around it. About once a week, if it's getting full, or starts to really stink, we empty it. (I know this is gross, but you're only reading it! We live it!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mike and I had a lot of debates/discussions about how the emptying of the honey bucket should go. I was all for him doing it but we found a happy medium; I pick the plywood box up and take it off the bucket and tie the garbage bags (one bag wasn't enough, two seems to do the trick. we buy extra durable, odor blocker bags.) then carry the bucket from the bathroom, through the living room, and into the arctic entrance (I do not know how to spell it but the room is called a kunituk, I will explain this later) Mike stands in the doorway preparing to take the bucket outside. He takes the bucket to this bin sort of thing, which is about 15 feet from our doorway, where he dumps the bag with our business into it. When ever this bin gets full we call the city and they come and empty it. Thank goodness that's not my job! The first part of this process makes Mike nauseous, while the second part makes me nauseous so it evens out.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After our business is out of the house, the smell is not, so we usually leave the windows and door open and light a candle. I then usually spray the inside of the bucket with some kind of bleach cleaner just for good measure, wait for it to dry, load the garbage bags, put it back in place, and we're good to go!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The school has gym showers and washers and dryers that we are allowed to use. At first we tried taking showers at the school to preserve our water but we then decided that taking all our shower stuff, getting dressed, walking through the sand, showering, and walking back was more work than just filling our cistern when it was empty. We do do our laundry at the school though, our night is Tuesdays from 4:00 to 8:00 PM! Oh Boy!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The honey bucket, we now have a nice shower curtain for the shower and bathmat for the floor!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don't worry! This picture was taken before we used the honey bucket even once. You can see it is ready to go, loaded with the garbage bags.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see our water cistern in our kunituk here. This is one of our frequent visitors, she is in 4th grade and came over when we were getting water and decided she wanted to help.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the view from the top looking down into the cistern as it is being filled. You can see all the sand on the bottom. The sand pretty much just sits there but we still filter our drinking water just in case!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hose running from our house to the school. Mike is up there turning the water on, you can see all the kiddies who were excited we were out and followed him up to see what he was doing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soooooo, we learned there is a hole towards the top of the cistern that once the water gets that high starts to leak... apparently the duct tape that was over the hole doesn't hold the water... </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike ringing out the water from the water on the floor from the leaking cistern. Once we realize it was leaking I started doing dishes ASAP. We figured that if the water was going to come out we should try to use some of it up on something useful.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-89179311013038332702011-08-23T19:26:00.000-07:002011-08-23T19:26:26.881-07:00Unalakleet: New Teacher Training<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Less than 24 hours after landing in Shishmaref we loaded our luggage onto the school truck, drove to the airport, and boarded the plane to Unalakleet for new teacher training. We teach in Shishmaref School in the Bering Strait School District in Alaska. There are 15 schools in the school district and they are all along the coast on Alaska. This is a video the district made and showed us during the interview. It shows a little about the school as well as zooming into where Shishmaref on the map; <a href="http://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/Shishmaref_Overview">http://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/Shishmaref_Overview</a>. There are about 20 teachers on our staff plus a lot of aids who come in to help. There were five new teachers at our school this year which was a unusually very high turnover for our site. One school had 15 new teachers!</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our plane from Shish to Nome. This is how they load the plane. We pile our luggage on the runway and they put it in the back. Nice and simple!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The size of the planes still amaze me. This is us leaving Shishmaref and going to Nome where we would get on another plane. Before we go to the airport in Shish we have to call and tell them how much we weigh and about how much we think our luggage weighs. We don't go through security, they don't scan our bags, they don't look at tickets, they don't assign seats. We just get out of the truck, load our luggage, and get on the plane. I am in the very back of the plane so you can see how small it actually is.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the airport in Nome... Notice the caribou in the back of the truck...</td></tr>
</tbody></table> On the plane ride from Nome to Unalakleet we ended up doing what is called a milk run. This means that even though the plane's final destination was Unalakleet, it stopped in two other places before it went there where it dropped off one person at each site. We stopped in St. Michaels and Stebbins before landing in Unalakleet. That means that Mike and I had 10 separate take offs in 3 days. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, this is the first picture we took after landing in Unalakleet. Can you spy why we took the picture?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A beautiful blue sky day in Unalakleet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It had been rainy for us since we landed in Alaska so it was nice to see all of the blue skies!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few of the new teachers who were already in Unalakleet met us at the airport with a poster and song and walked back to the school with us.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We spent a little time on the "beach" the fist day. There is a lot of drift wood that washes up onto the shore.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They built these with the drift wood. At first we thought it was just the kids having fun but later we saw they used them to hang and dry out fish. This is Mike with the drift wood.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lisa with the drift wood!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My awesome photography with my little digital camera : )</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of the schools in our district are either newly built or renovated. A certain percent of the building fund is dedicated to art. This is what you see when you come in the doors of the Unalakleet School. It was really cool to see and you can see the Norther Lights painted in the background.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the other side of Unalakleet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike taking a video with our new camera so we can make everyone watch it when we get home!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the new teachers, and you can see the place they made to drying rack.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can you see the fish drying inside?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Driftwood</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A fishing boat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lisa with the water behind her.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If I remember correctly, these are called "dog circles." Most of the dogs in the villages stay outside. You can see here that the wood is stuck into the ground and the dogs are tied to stay there. If you see a lot of dogs like this they may be a part of a team for dog sledding.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike on the last day of training. We were ready to be home.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our bed/area in the "couples room" at new teacher training. We were in a room with three other couples. You just kind of pick out an area and try to get as comfortable as possible.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On our way home we had a charter that went from Unalakleet to Shishmaref. We flew with Era Alaska which we just had to take a picture of since they are the airlines on the TV show Flying Wild Alaska. (We saw the mom but were considerate and non-touristy so we didn't take a picture of her.)</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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We were in Unalakleet for 3 1/2 days. While we were there we really bonded with the new teachers in the district and in our school. We explored Unalakleet, met some really great people, shared stories, played Rummy, ate really well, and learned a lot about teaching in Alaska!The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-10375940202917270832011-08-16T22:08:00.000-07:002011-08-16T22:08:39.704-07:00Our First Day in Shishmaref<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When we first landed in Shishmaref we were both very excited but way more nervous. We were about to enter a whole new culture and we only had our two months of research to know what to expect. The assistant principal met us at the airport where we grabbed our luggage right from the side of the plane (much like unloading the trunk of a car) and piled it into the back of the school's truck. No one would let us carry our own luggage and all insisted on loading it into the truck for us. The truck itself is pretty beat up with the tailgate missing but the school employees are allowed to use it and it gets you from one place to another.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Then the assistant principal (John) drove us to our house. As we were driving around when we saw anyone we waved to them. Some of the kids ran after the truck for a little bit when they saw their were new people in it. When we got to our house one of our neighbors, Amy (who also teaches 2nd grade), came out to meet us along with about eight shy little kiddies who all huddled around her. Our principal, Steve, and our other neighbor, Ken (teaches high school science), also came out to meet us. You will probably hear us say it about a million times, but the people here are so incredibly nice!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We were then given grand tours of the house, school, and island (photos to follow in later posts).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After our grand tours John helped us get our many many boxes we had been shipping up from the school and to our house. Many of the boxes were much more battered than we thought they would be but they are all accounted for! We only had two casualties in the shipping process, one of which was fixable and the other we have not tried fixing yet. Mike is still waiting for some of the boxes he shipped up late... we hope they get here soon because he only has one pair of blue jeans currently!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of our pile of boxes in the school hallway</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the corners of our boxes were busted open</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boxes boxes everywhere!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike surrounded by boxes! You can also see the new cabinets that were put into our kitchen over the summer!</td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now, when we took the job, they made sure we were very aware of one thing: there would be no running water in our housing unit. They said that teachers in the past have not had trouble with this so long as they knew what was in store. We decided we were bold enough to take on that challenge. In our entry way there is a 300 gallon cistern which we fill with water. That water is then pumped into pipes and goes into our sinks and showers, so it is basically like having running water except that we have to refill the tank whenever it gets low. The biggest difference is that we do not have a flush toilet and we use what is called a "honey bucket," which is ironic since they also refer to Mike as my "honey..." Anyways, we will go more in depth on the water situation in a later post. After we had lugged our 30-some boxes into our house Ken showed us how to fill up our cistern so we could indeed have water!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Filling the cistern with water. We run a hose from the school, through the hole in the wall, into the cistern. It takes about 45 minutes to fill completely. You can see the little flaps by where the hole is. There is a flap on the inside and outside. The girls who hung out on the porch liked to open the flap and yell for Mike or me to come over so they could tell or show us something.</td></tr>
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</tbody></table> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After all of our busy days and traveling I was ready to hit the hay at about 8PM so I went to lay down while Mike continued to unpack some. While I was laying down I heard more people knocking and I heard Mike conversing with what sounded like 12 kids at the door all wanting to come in and visit me even though Mike told them I was sleeping. They all seem very interested in us and we still get kiddos every day wanting to visit. They knock on the door and when you answer they ask, "can we visit?!" We hate to turn them away but we are old and want to go to bed before midnight!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our first homemade meal as a married couple! Canned wedding soup! With little time and little supplies this was the best we could muster up in our less than 24 hours at home.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Before we could get to Shishmaref we had an overnight stay in Anchorage. In Anchorage we had one objective; that objective was to do our first grocery shopping as a married couple. Only our shopping experience was quite different. Functioning on little sleep and with about 12 hours of traveling under our belts we had the challenge of shopping for the the next four months at once, thus requiring us to buy non-perishable food in bulk. Also, since Shishmaref is a dry villiage we were not able to ship up anything that contains alcohol; this includes things such as Fabreeze, and certain mouthwashes and medicines. While we were shopping people would comment on the amount of food we were buying and knew we were headed to the Bush. Five shopping carts later we were ready to retire from our Bush shopping experience. We left our carts at the back of the store in what is called the "Bush Department" where they will check out our carts, package our goods, and ship them to us. They have up to 30 days to ship the groceries and we will pay for it when it gets here so we do not know when to expect our goods or what the damage will be cost wise.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bright and early (6AM) the next morning we headed back to the airport for our flight to Nome and then to Shishmaref. With our three hour layover in Nome we ventured into town where we bought a snack of granola bars and bananas and then went to GCI where we purchased our phone since Verizon does not work in our villiage. When it came time to board our plane we walked onto the runway to climb into our ten person plane to Shishmaref! We experienced our first weather delay due to rain but we both slept through it because of our lack of sleep. The flight itself was uneventful (again due to sleep) and about an hour after take off we were happy to land in our new home, Shishmaref, Alaska.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lisa excited to land in Shishmaref</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Welcome to Shishmaref!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The Rippershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13433059298212082068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246125732575408474.post-87570498403843229202011-08-14T21:03:00.000-07:002011-08-14T22:16:04.043-07:00Beginning Our Happily Ever After<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Just Married!</b></span></span></div></div><br />
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