Snow Day!

Waaaaaahoooo!!!!  We had a snow (lack of water) day yesterday.  How exciting!?  Well, it was exciting that we got to have a day off from school, and to watch 200 students who don't know what a snow day is, try to figure out what to do on a Wednesday.  It was not fun to not have water all day long.  They never cancel school here...it's kind of like college - where it's implied that you don't ever cancel school.  For instance, it's been snowing for three days, it's -18 degrees, with a windchill of -35.  You would normally think that school would be cancelled...nope.  The kids just say it's better weather to go outside and play.  I bought them two footballs to play with during gym (and I want to have a game sometime soon!), so they are playing with that sometimes on the river, too.  We had a warm spell for a few days earlier in the week so we got a bit of snow.  It was cool.  I never realized that it could be too cold to snow.  You learn everything living in Alaska!

Sunset on my way to Mountain Village

On Sunday we had our second Thanksgiving/Christmas/Holiday Celebration dinner (Sara, Nathan, Laura, and me).  Mom and Dad were nice enough to send a bunch of holiday food for us to cook, and we bought a turkey cheap at the store before Thanksgiving.  ($2 a pound...I know you were wondering what cheap meant up here...) Let's just say that we cooked the same amount of food for the four of us (three kind of because Sara is vegetarian) that Mom usually cooks for the 25ish people who come for Thanksgiving in Michigan.  We love leftovers!  I made a lot of Special K bars, so I was able to take them back to my classes and let the kids try them.  Mom, you're going to have to make a 5X's batch for me to bring back after Christmas.  They were very excited about the treats!

We're having a Talent Show on Friday that the kids are doing.  I'm so excited for it!  We have 17 acts - many of the kids are singing, 2 are rapping (one is an original song that the student wrote-he's really good!), a kid playing piano, one lip syncing and dancing (I'm so excited for this one...it's the funniest), Eskimo dancing, NYO kids doing some events, a kid playing his guitar with a song he wrote, and our MC's are doing some comedy between acts.  It's going to be amazing!  We're going to videotape it, so hopefully I can bring a video back to Michigan to show you how talented they are.

We also have our Christmas Program on Tuesday, so I'll bring plenty of pictures of that, too!