The start of the school year is quickly approaching. 1st and 2nd year teachers went to Bethel for inservice this past week. I was pleasantly surprised to find that one of my former peers at Northwestern is now teaching Special Ed. in a village in our school district..nice to visit with her for a bit. Inservice was monotonous but a great chance to chat with fellow teachers.

We saw our new special ed. director (my boss in the district office) for a bit yesterday. He seems like a great guy and from the little bit we saw, he really knows his stuff. Yesterday morning Span Alaska (one of the places we can order groceries from) gave away four door prizes. Kat recieved one and I recieved one...Tunt was well represented :)

It was nice to shop a bit in Bethel and get some produce that we didn't have, nectarines were on sale for $1 a pound and they looked nice. :) We also received 5% off from our total order at one of the stores in Bethel. The stores are prepared for teachers and have boxes on hand and will box up all your food so it is easier to haul to the village.

It has been a bit rainy around here and cool (the cool weather is a relief after the HOT weather we had in the lower 48 :) Nick, Kat, Travis and I all flew to Bethel on Tuesday afternoon, the weather was bad in Bethel so we landed in Napaskiak (another village...a stone throw from bethel) for awhile until the weather was clear enough. Yesterday when inservice was over, many of the planes weren't flying. The bigger planes started flying around noon, and the 207's started flying a couple hours later.

We loaded our plane for the village at the expected time, but sat on the runway for awhile, the ceiling was too low, and 15 planes were waiting to land and four more were waiting to depart before us. The flight from Bethel was a nice flight we were on a bit bigger plane (Cessna 208 caravan) so we had more room and the flight only took 20 min. :) I took some arial photos and will try to share those later.

will write more later. :)