Just got back from 4 days in Barrow. Ate at every restaurant! Arctic Lights has great burgers and fries and a new sushi bar. I hate sushi. Osaka's Wonton Soup is phenominal. Brower's Cafe has good everything, but the ice cream is more ice milk. Pepe's, well...nice atmosphere. I hear breakfast is good.
I now have my Life Guard Certificate and a great memory of obtaining it with lots of fine folks. I still don't understand why we have to swim the length of the pool carrying a brick, I mean, once we get it off the bottom, wouldn't one just take it out of the pool? Whatever...guess that's in case we guard a beach, eh?
My inservice was very good. Gave me a new burst of enthusiasm for teaching math.
Overall, good visit.
Discovery Channel was filming my flight back to Atqasuk. Apparently, they found it interesting that the plane was hauling a ATV. I pointed out that the people were far more important than the cargo. But, when we arrived, the camera was on the ATV...uh huh. So, we now have a famous ATV in the village!
Brought lots of groceries home, including ice cream and rootbeer for my class. Managed to bring a box of cones as well w/o their getting crushed.
Time now to wash the chlorine from my hair and go to school to write this week's lesson plans.
Good to be home in my little house on the tundra. Need to make some chocolate chip cookies (:
Wowsers- working your way through the browsers!!
ReplyDeleteI'm reading a book for class right now called "Real Country- music in american working class culture' or some such. In either case, I looked at the author's website- and believe it or not- he was in Barrow working on a project with Columbia U. Basically, as a musicologist he was trying to record the musical/aural history of the Inupiat peoples.
Pretty nice story about the ATV- a little on the ridiculous side!
Mary! Glad to find you! I'm experimenting with blogging, too. Great to keep in touch this way.
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