Friends, family members, acquaintances, strangers, anyone, welcome to another edition of "Mark vs. Alaska... and there are some other Gustavus students too.." Once again we have survived the weekend and we all are now in the midst of full time teaching in our school. Before we get into the the goodness that is my classmates and I being able to teach our classroom let us first rewind to Friday. On Friday some of us Gusties were able to take over full control of our classroom while others were not, but Friday was awesome. Wait, I don't think you get it. IT WAS AWESOME. The third and fourth grades had a large dodgeball tournament in which the teachers played against the students. Sam says this is not true, but I like to believe that she beat the entire fourth grade with her left hand, I swear it happened... So that was awesome for those two, the rest of us first graders (Sasha, Bethany, and myself) got to take our students on some sled dog rides! Yeah, sled dog rides. If you are an avid reader of my blog you know last time I compared our sled dog experience to the movie Balto. Once again, it was exactly like I remember Balto being, except smaller, cause you know, there were a bunch of first graders, and they are small... Anyways, it was a great experience and the kids loved it(Sadly can't include any pictures of the kids for legal reasons). Alright, lets move on to the weekend. Friday night, we sat around and worked for the most part and a couple of the girls finished their atigluk, which is a traditional shirt/dress that is worn here. They are pretty sweet. Over the rest of the weekend, we were able to go and learn about simple machines that we can do with future classrooms from a college professor, we went and saw some caribou or tuttu in the native language, shot some guns(don't worry, we were very safe with it), eat a whole bunch of sushi with Kayla's CT, and did some sledding. It was a great weekend. Alright, I'm gonna cut it short, because some of us are going to butcher a seal. Which will be an experience, never though I would butcher anything, much less a seal, but I figure if someone asks you to butcher a seal you say yes.So here are some pictures. Thanks for reading!
The aftermath of our sushi experience. Actually, I think the aftermath was the delightful nap that followed, anyways... sushi is weird... but alright.
Saw some Viking stuff in a shop and got probably too excited about it. Oh well, GO VIKES!!
A shop in Barrow that is for some reason called La Bamba? Nothing spanish about the inside, must have just been a big Ritchie Valens fan. For those of you who got that reference, I appreciate you...
We totally taught that hill a lesson it shall not soon forget.
Building some sweet small machines!
This is midnight, check those eyes out. Thats pretty neat!
So this is us, just scouting out the herd. You know, like hunters do, staring off into the distance, pondering deep thoughs...
And, finally... we found a caribou head in the freezer...
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