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Finally on the way back after having to spend the night in Anchorage. 25 hours to travel from one spot in Alaska to another, yeah!

Lesson on Bush travel

This trip has been full of learning experiences.

This morning we had another one, this one was on bush travel.

It goes like this: the plane that is supposed to be here at 11:05 will land and go again at 10:00, when the airline office tells you first, no no it is on schedule, expect the next conversation to be oh, it is gone already and then when the agent tells you, oh it will stop again on the way back from the next village and pick you up, that means it will go straight to the hub and not stop here at all!

So there we were two sad students standing out on the frozen runway with the ravens eating the newly arrived groceries...

Trying to reschedule, but we probably won't make it back until tomorrow.

Moon over Noorvik

Took one last walk through town, interesting just walking alone.
The sun was setting, the ravens were calling, dogs howling in the
distance.

Got really cold with the wind, feel like those pictures
capture what was going on.

Basketball obsession

If there is one thing that the kids here like, it is basketball. The gym is open before school and it is full of kids playing basketball. It is open during brakes, and it is full of kids playing basketball, it is open during lunch and it is full of kids playing basket ball. There is open gym at night and it full, well you guessed it kids playing basket ball!

























I even talked to a kid that taking an additional year as a senior more or less to play on the team.

Like the saying goes, practice makes perfect, the kids are incredibly good as is evident in Noorvik winning a number of state championships through the years for both boys and girls.

I had a great time playing even though I got my butt kicked; those 6th grade girls know what they are doing.

At least I got selected for the team, first it was we’ll take the old guy, but after a while it was we’ll take the tall guy, that is improvement right?

Student of the Week Assembly

Hey those guys should not be in kindergarten any more!

Animal, vegetable, miracle

In Icelandic there is a special term "matarás", that would translate to food love, that is you love somebody for the food they give you!

Here it is the two ladies in the cafeteria, give us double servings without asking and today we were running late so they sent out a messenger to fetch us so we would not go without.

Thanks!

Fire drill

How many kids can you fit under a single arctic Parka during a fire drill, answer quite a few!