Fun Trips
The last couple days have been really amazing. Friday morning I hopped on 406SD (which is the BSSD airplane) with Dr. Davis (BSSD Superintendent), Kim Johnson (BSSD Ed Support Coordinator), and Rebecca Concilus (BSSD Special Ed Coordinator). We were headed for Little Doimede. You may have remembered me going out there last fall via helicopter. Well the Bering Sea got cold enough in the last few weeks to provide a nice layer of sea ice to land on. Diomede locals were telling us that the ice was about 4 feet thick, which is pretty amazing since it is salt water.
The weather was perfect. Very sunny out which makes the snowy surounding just that much more stunning. Here is a different perspective than I was able to show you last time, since I was able to stand out on the the ocean in front of the village.
The kids went out skiing after school on the ice. They really love to be out and about. There was a little wind which made it really quite cold if you weren’t covered up. Nathan Pitt (one of Little Diomede’s teachers) helped me work with a couple of students to shoot a few panoramas on and around the island. I’ll hopefully post those in a week or so.
Nathan and I hopped on a snowmachine and headed out over the International Dateline. We wanted to go check out tomorrow or as most of you know it Russia. Here is a shot of me standing in Russia.
We didn’t want to stay for too long since the Russians don’t really like you visiting. We shot a couple of photos, and I upheld forgien relations, and we headed back to the USA.
On the way back we stopped by 406SD. I snapped a cool photo of it with the village of Little Diomede in the background.
Here is one of my classic “self portraits” that I like to take with a student and Little Diomede in the background. It really amazes me how remote this place is, and the lives the people live out there.
We were only out for a few hours, and had to head back. It was nice to catch up with friends out there, and see this unique place once again. I wish Erin could have been along. I think she would have really been impressed with how beautiful this place is. And its always fun to travel with her.
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