Showing posts with label pictures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pictures. Show all posts

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Prime Real Estate

Tonight's blog will be mostly pictures.  Time is getting short and honestly, I'm beat!  We did a lot of run of the mill inservice curriculum today.  We had our three meals and the evening was filled with activities that some people partake in.  I did go and learn how to shoot a bow and arrow.  That video will come later.  While doing so the mosquitoes decided that my forehead was prime real estate and I now look like I have the chicken pox starting there.

Katmai does a wonderful job of making sure we don't go hungry.  In some cases I feel like I'm back in Disneyworld again eating so often I might get sick.  It's good though so I'm not complaining!  

Zeke, another lodge dog.  He's a sweetie

Posted in every room.  



Two Bald Eagles
The Bald Eagle viewing for me was the highlight of the day.  While the picture isn't the best, it was great to see them out in the open.  Thank goodness for the binoculars I put in at the last moment!

One more full day here and then Friday I'm off to Egegik.


Monday, August 8, 2011

What sound does "y" make?



Anchor anyone?



Today was a much slower day by far.  We are staying at that same air force base in King Salmon for some new teacher inservice.  Breakfast was early this morning at the district office and the training started right after.

The bus ride was a bit bumpy but they had fun
We learned about standards based education, the tests that they are administered and how to give some of them.  We also learned that much of our letter sounds that we were taught as young students were taught to us wrong.  Imagine learning that all those letter sounds were wrong and then trying to make your brain correct a student during a timed test with all that past knowledge getting in the way.  It was kinda funny.  I know I'll have a hard time with it! Did you know that "y" sounds like Yee?



Our dinner diner
After training we took a bus ride to Naknek, a small village, and had dinner there.  My french dip was good but way too big.  Eric about freaked out when I told him how much it was.  19 bucks for the sandwich and 4 bucks for the bottle of apple juice.  I wasn't going to get the drink but the water smelled of sulfur and I needed something to drink terribly!  So that money the district gave us for per diem staying the night came in handy!

Aside from that, we have not much going on.  We fly to Katmai tomorrow for some more inservice and exciting adventures!  There should be some AWESOME pictures coming from those days.  I'm also happy to report (maybe) that I did receive my first skeeter bite last night and forgot to tell you all about it.  Bad Dorothy!