Busy, Busy, Busy

So I have been VERY busy here - it is a lot of work coaching. Not only do I have to do all the fundraising, with the help of the parents, but when we have an away game I am gone for 4 or 5 days! We fly to another village and play a bunch of games with all kinds of schools. Last week we went to Neknak (it cost $8000 and we raised it all!!), but we had a really great time. The girls came in forth overall, but it was awesome to see them grow and get better even just over the course of the tournament. Naknek is a village about the size of us here at Stu (500 people), but it is much different because they are connected by a road to a much bigger town - King Salmon (about 2000). They even have a swimming pool there and we REALLY had a good time playing there!!

Here are some pics from the trip -

These are a few of my girls while we were on the plane going to the tournament -



This is my captain. Her and I are walking to the post office to mail some stuff because I can never seem to get out of school while the post office in Stu is actually open!!


He are some of the kids hanging out before the games:


Doing their homework in between games:


This is a poster welcoming us to the tournament:


Here they are attempting to wake up after a long night of watching scary movies :)

This girl actually rolled off here areobed in the middle of the night:


Here is the boys team before and after their last game. They took 1st in the tournament.

Here we are playing in the pool. We even played chicken! It is fun playing with the middle school kids because they are my height!!







Even though they are my height, they still like to just play and have fun. Here we are waiting to leave, but all they wanted to do was go outside and play in the playground until our plane came in.



We didn't play any games this weekend so I finally had some time to catch up on my work and even go out for a hike. Puffin and I had a lot of fun hiking, but we got caught in some pretty deep snow. We were walking along in about thigh deep snow, but then all of a sudden I was up to my chest in snow. So I looked at puffin and when she gets in over her head, she swims - so that is what we did - Swim!! I wish I had someone else with us just to take a picture. The two of us with just our heads bobbing on top of the snow, we must have been a sight!






This is the moon rising one night over the school. It was just glowing red!


Here is an eagle we saw while out on our hike -



And these are some fox tracks - Here is Puff during our hike -
And after her bath -

Well this next week is Culture Week and Beaver Fest (like a carnival) so I am sure I will have fun stories and pics from that. For Culture week, I am teaching how to make macaroni sauce and Italian cookies. Wish me Luck!!