Christmas Break

Eskimo Games happen every year the week after Christmas. Chris participated in the event called Leg Wrestling.

Learning to sew!

The makings of the kuspuk. These are the cuffs and the front with the pocket. I sewed on the border and then the rickrack. I am finally making my lines straight.

It's so cold outside that there is ice on the inside of the window. I had to use a hair blow dryer to melt the ice away.

An ornament made from an Alaskan Native. They are made from seal skin and then beaded on the perimeter. These ladies make ornaments in the shape of polar bears, snowmen, reindeer, angels, and trees.

The first big snow fall of the year. The snow fell and then the wind came. The constant blow of 35 mile per hour winds for a couple days straight causes the wind to blow the snow into drifts. Most of the drifts are about five feet tall.

Eskimo Games: Leg Wrestling

Deck the Rooftop

Merry Christmas from Brevig Mission School!

Christmas Time

Well it is Christmas time up in the bush and that means Christmas Tree!

The pups are growing. They are almost too strong for me to hold them both, but Chris thinks they make a great pillow!

The weather is always around 0 degrees. The wind however makes the temperature hit negative numbers very quickly.

The sun comes up around 11:30 and sets around 3:00-3:30. We are still losing 5 min. a day in sunlight.

I have made it through my first semester of teaching and loved it.

Chris and I went to Anchorage for a visit and were supposed to fly out yesterday to Nome, but after flying all the way to Nome and finding out that we couldn't land because of weather, we turned around and came back to Anchorage. The booking agent informed us that all planes were booked til Tuesday. Good thing we are on Christmas Break.