Halloween

Oh my goodness, Halloween is in the middle of the week! I'll be so wound up that my students will have to try and keep up with me, I refuse to it the other way around. We carved our pumpkin today, we still need to carve out the eyes...I'm saving that for last. We have little "sense" activities to go with each of our carvings. We experimented on what raw pumpkin tastes like...so far everyone likes the taste.

Slip, slide and away

Well, our snow is gone. We have ice. As dangerous as that sounds, I am very glad it rained, because that means my water tank is replenished. For those of us that don't have running water, the rain is a blessing. You should have seen me yesterday, I was like a drill sergeant. I wanted that water in the water containers before the area steambath houses started firing up. When the smoke from gets into the water supply, we can't use it for drinking water anymore. On another note, our freeze-up is weird this year. The big main river is all iced up now, but our little slough, Kuiggluk, is still open. Usually, the sloughs freeze first before the big river freezes. I hate traveling this time of the year, because seems like we end up waiting at the airports forever.

Winter is around the corner

We've had our first snow over the weekend and it's actually sticking! Our river hasn't froze yet though. We still have our die-hards still running up and down the river, we even have some snow-goers riding their machines up and down the road...I hope they realize that that messes up their slides. Anyhow, we have snow and it looks like its here to stay...is time flying fast for you all?

Dilemma #400,550.

I spent last week at Fairbanks. I managed to download most of the pictures I wanted to use for my "Sense of Place" story. However, some of the pictures have low or high res issues and I'm assuming that if I use those pictures with those issues, some of my pictures will look blurry or grainy. So my dilemma now is to figure a way to fix those pictures with res issues. If I can't ...I'm back to uploading some more pictures one at a time...

Number-itis

Hello, this week has flown by so fast, and here I thought I'd be able to get most of my assignments out of the way...only, our Math 205 Intensive has really stretched out brains. The part of the brain that doesn't get exercised is really working hard. The class is wonderful because it focuses on how we teach children about math concepts . How our attitudes about math tend to override some of the way we teach the children. The homeworks are killers but they manage to get done. You should see my eyes now...I look like I haven't slept for days.