The Beginnings of a Blog

So there I was…. Checking my sister’s blog on a daily basis.  This is the blog mind you that I helped her create.  The one I showed her how to use.  When I realized.  Hey! I don’t have a blog.  I can’t let my sister out do me in the realm of technology.  So I decided to create my own.  Mine will be much cooler though.  I will try to update mine a little more often than she does hers.  So I know I’ll be hogging all of the traffic on the family site.  Soon I’m sure people from all over will have my blog as their homepage.  Just to see what’s happening in my life.  🙂  Not really.  But I am going to try to post pictures, and a daily note about the crazy things that go on in the far far north.  For instance…  How many of you have your boss and half of your co-workers stop by on a Sunday to visit.  Some stopped by to talk shop and some for a visit.  Maybe some of you, but how many of you live in the same building as half of your staff.  With the other half living no more than 100 ft. away?  I am enjoying my one-day off this week.  That’s right…. One day!!  Flying back up to Brevig after our two week Christmas break didn’t go exactly as planned.  Turns out we were “stuck” in Anchorage for an extra two days.  Now I put extra in quotes because I wouldn’t exactly say I was bummed I didn’t make it back.  The problem was.  Erin and I were not the only ones delayed from our return.  9 out of the 10 staff that run our school were “stuck” in Anchorage, including our principal.  So school was canceled on Monday and Tuesday.  The only problem being BSSD (Bering Strait School District) doesn’t have any school days to spare.  So we have to make up the days we had to cancel.  Hence only one day off.  That’s right folks.  We in Brevig were privileged with a day of Saturday school.  With another one promised in a month or two.  Aren’t we lucky?  These are new additions to the normal Saturday workdays that are in our contract.  See the district realizes that it’s staff isn’t from the arctic and wants to get home as soon as possible.  So the days that normal schools in the lower 48 and those schools that are on the road system in Alaska take as teacher workdays during the week are scheduled on Saturdays for us.  So we can spend as little time as possible away from our families and places that are warm.  Actually the weather isn’t too bad right now.  It’s only 11 below zero (37 below with the wind chill).  So after our one-day off we are back at it again tomorrow trying to encourage learning in the youth of the north.  I hope everyone has a quick and pain free Monday.