A New Experience

This week was a very interesting one.  The weather has started to change and my roommate and I make our morning walk to school in the dark.  The temperature has also started to drop and we have had heavy frost on the boardwalk twice this week.  This morning I did some calculations about the shortening amount of daylight and calculated we would lose around 8 hours of daylight before the days will start to lengthen again.  This will leave us with around 4 hours of true daylight along with the "light" during dawn and dusk. 

Along with the cooler weather and shortening days, moose hunting is a fact of life here in the Lower Yukon Delta.  Many of my students have gone to "catch" their moose and have come to school the following day extremely tired.  Being tired, along with the excitement of their experiences, leads to students who are not very focused and are easily annoyed.  I am certainly glad that we had district wide in-service today and tomorrow. 

I did take some more pictures of Kotlik and the house this week.

 

                                                 Another beautiful sunrise from the porch.

 

A picture of the kitchen from the dining room.

 

 

The dining room.  The door on the right is the door to the laundry room we share with the other family in our duplex.

 

 

This is the third bedroom.  We use it for storage and keep the water distiller in there.

 

 

The bathroom view from the door.

 

The rest of the bathroom.

 

A view of the living room from the front door.  The door in the back is my bedroom door.  My roommates, Mike (on the phone) and Hobart (on the floor), are also in the picture.

 

A view from my bedroom door.

 

This was taken from the dining room table.  We have quite a view of the Yukon out of our front window.

 

I love the sunrises from the porch.

 

This is the old school.  The village now owns it and it stands empty.

 

The neighbor getting the boat ready to go "catch" a moose.

 

Sunrise from the front of the school.