I have been teaching in bush Alaska for five years now. I came here thinking it would only be a three year plan, but I now find myself starting a fifth year. I live in Bethel with my mutt Suka.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Tiny Blip About What's Going On
Here's a little update since I haven't blogged in quite awhile. I am still living in Alaska. I teach first grade this year. I had an awesome summer spent in Europe. I traveled to my ultimate destination... Ireland :) Then off to my second love, Scotland, then to England and lastly, France. Ireland and Scotland were the best! I wish some guy would've swept me off my feet and made me stay there. ah, well. I'll take another trip over there and see what happens. Maybe I'll find a new teaching job... then my blog would say "The" Irish Experience.
I spent a lot of time with my family this summer in "up north" Michigan. Bon fires, Fourth of July, marshmallows, The Whiskey Barrel... Too much fun. This fall, my aunt Teri passed away from cancer. We spent some time together before I came back up here for the school year. She was in a wheel chair and we went for a nice walk along a creek, ate some ice cream afterwards, and sat on a porch to just talk. My aunt Teri is now buried beside her two boys in Beaverton. I went to see her grave in October and I put a little pumpkin gourd by the flowers. Before she passed away, my aunt Teri and uncle Dave gave me a large sum of foreign bills. I don't even know where all of them are from. I need to find some folder to organize the money and figure out some way to identify them. And no, not every country puts their name on their money!
I've got so much new things to blog about, but I'll save that for a later time (Mexico, K-300, weddings, yadda yadda yadda :) This was just a quick update blog.
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