Witnessing the food chain of the Chukchi Sea…alternative title: That Time I Freaked Out About Whales on the Phone with My Sister.
Category Archive: Alaska
We don’t call snow days, but we do call days for plumbing issues.
Back in the arctic for another school year!
Arctic Spring in Pictures
Word of the Week
Bun: (bun) noun. 1. Abbreviation for the Inupiaq word, bunnik, that translates to the noun daughter.
Side Note: Sometimes you don’t have to be someone’s daughter to be given this term of endearment. You may hear “bun”, “bunnik”, or “bunny” < which in my head is spelt “bunni”
It may not be pretty, but it is functional (and cheap)!
How teaching in a small village has changed my perspective on how much I rely on other people.
Word of the Week
Catwalk: (kat•wôk) verb. 1. To pop a wheelie.
Side Note: I’m not sure if you have to be able to pop a wheelie and hold and ride it for a while, but I do know the students like to talk about it in their journal prompts.
Spring looks a little different and arrives a little slower in the arctic.
I stared at the long black rectangles with their enticing red and white designs. It is the cherry […]
The sky’s awake, so we’re all awake!
Word of the Week
Drag: (drag) verb. 1. Pulling people around in a sled behind an ATV or sno-go. Recreation activity. See also, extreme sledding
Side note: When I first saw students “go drag”, I was reminded of my own childhood. We’d wait all winter for some good snow, then pull each other around by whatever vehicle could maneuver the snow, ice, or slush. It became a game. To win as a driver, you must knock the rider off in record time (making them bail by trying to ram them into objects was fair game). To win as the rider, you must hold on…even if it is only by your fingertips and you are being dragged across the ice.
Tumbleweed Soul 