Who are these kids?
Lets see how today has gone…. Well there was kind of a shortage of students in class today. We are only missing about 5 today, which is pretty normal for a Monday. The curious thing is that a couple of the kids that are missing are ones that show up on a regular basis. To counteract that we have a couple here to day that usually don’t show up. Now I don’t know if this is happening because we are starting to apply some legal pressure to the families of students that aren’t showing up, or if they are finally getting bored with being at home and watching TV for the last 5 months, and have decided to try something new. Regardless we have a couple of squirrels here to keep us on our toes today. One of them is literally like flubber. He is always bouncing around the room. His eyes are darting around all the time. He never seems to be paying attention, but when you ask the class a question, he seems to always have the perfect answer. So whatever he is doing he is doing right. He has been to school maybe 20 times all year. Another student on the other hand has been here maybe 3 times all year. He does however show up to all of the home basketball games. I don’t know how he manages to make his way into the crowd, but he shows up anyway. The kids just got back from P.E. They are always difficult to quiet down. They supposed to read for 20 minutes. A very difficult task. Anything that involves quiet is pretty much impossible in their eyes. After 10 minutes of continues reminding I have finally succeeded in producing a quiet reading environment. It is pretty stormy out today. When the wind picks up the blowing snow causes visibility to decrease quite a bit. At times you are not able to see farther then 10 – 15 feet. Nonetheless, I just saw the kindergarten class walk out side with buckets. Not sure what they are after, but I hope they don’t loose any of them. Over Christmas break a guy in Wales was walking from one house to another in the village. It was so stormy out that he lost his way, and was never found again. It wasn’t like he had a long way to go either. It was a matter of a hundred yards or so, in a very densely housed village. Pretty sad, but a serious warning for others to be careful when they are out in bad weather.It sounds like I will be heading to Stebbins this week for the Eskimo Dance Festival. I am really excited. I understand that it is a great learning opportunity. There is not only dancing, but also classes teaching about the culture. I will be taking a couple of students, and we will be broadcasting the events. I’m not sure yet if we will be doing a webcast, or just a broadcast over the videoconferencing system. If it is a webcast I will be sure to provide a link on my blog for anyone who would like to watch it. I’ll know more in a couple of days. I hope everyone’s week goes by quickly.
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