Winter Weather

During the last few days, the weather in Brevig has been the worse I have seen yet. Blowing wind and snow up to 65 mph and snow drifts five feet high.
Even with all of this, school does not close.

I woke up on Wednesday morning to take the dogs out and opened the door to this....



I decided that I would take the dogs out later.
We shoveled the stair three times and each time it was that high.

One day of school this week we had so little kids that we decided to combine the entire elementary wing. There was only about 20 kids the whole day. The weather was so bad that not many people wanted to go out in it. I don't blame them. I could barely see my hand in front of my face.

Fun with no Sun

Living in Brevig is like living in a different world. There are no roads, no cars, and no places to go to hang out. So, to cope with this, our neighbor has collected tons of games. This is one of them. Probably the most confusing and detailed game I have ever seen. It took us three hours to play the first half, but it was so much fun.

Having the entire village on one power source can be a blessing and a curse. In this case, the whole village was in a power outage for about two hours. There are several reasons the power goes out up here, but all we need to know is where is our lantern! I love it. It brights up the whole room with a push of a button!

Chris and I got new glasses while we were down in the lower 48. We finally got them and showed them off

Little Dribblers is a basketball team comprised of 3-6th graders. The Coach is as tall as the players, and he is on his knees. It was quite a sight.

This weekend Little Dribblers played in a tournament against Diomede. Diomede is an island that happens to be the closest point in the United States to Russia. The people who live there are unique in their own way and live the Eskimo way of life. They still go whale and polar bear hunting. The only way to get to the island is on crab boat or helicopter, except for the winter because they have an ice landing strip that is built on the frozen ocean. It is a place I would love to go, but scared to actually visit because it is likely that I would get stuck there because of the weather patterns.

100 Day of School

The puppies are getting bigger! They are getting to be big enough that they take me on a walk.

I made homemade noodles finally! They turned out great and I even had a sharp knife to cut them with. Its called and ulu and it is used by the Eskimo women to cut seal skin.

First grade celebrated the 100th Day of School! We had a lot of fun.

We wore our hats all day and did 100 piece puzzles.

We also made a wall of 100 hearts with things that we were thankful for.

Putting 100 stickers on our 100 day hats.