It's been a busy, short week. Tuesday was our only full day of classes. Monday was Labor Day and we had parent teacher conferences Wed and Thursday. Today students will be dismissed at 12:50 so that we can attend a polycom (2 way video) training. 2nd year teachers and site administrators are to fly to Bethel this afternoon for inservice.

Weather has been iffy the last few days; cooler, very windy and lots of rain. Planes were grounded for awhile, and we may get weathered in Tunt today. For those of you who don't know, many things revolve around the two words "Weather Permitting" planes don't fly in inclement weather. This means no mail, and no adventures outside of the village unless you go by boat or snow mobile.

Last weekend one of the younger kids caught two seals, this is very exciting as it was the first time the student caught a seal. I learned that the first time a seal is caught it is cut up traditionally, the fins (or whatever they're called) lay across the front of the seal and where the fin ends they start cutting. They cut from the fins down and share that meat with other people; primarily elders. The meat from the top of the fins up (the head) is the meat the family will keep.