The first entry.

Today is Friday September, 3. The beginning of a three day weekend. Not as exciting as it sounds as there's really nothing to do here. There is the 12th annual Toksook Bay Blackberry Festival in another village but it's too far by boat and too expensive by plane.

Anyway I'm here. For those of you who are new to my adventure, here's the basics. I left Illinois on Sunday August 1st, flying from Chicago to Anchorage, Alaska. My first time in Alaska. I stayed overnight in Anchorage and left for Bethel the next day. Bethel is the "big" town to my village (think Mount Pilot to Mayberry, although not nearly as big or advanced). I was in Bethel for 4 days for new teacher training. On Thursday of that week I flew to Chefornak, my village.

 Chefornak is a village of about 400 people. There are no roads or cars, only two very small stores, a church and a community center. And a big school. Most of the people here have no running water (including me). That's why I spend a lot of time at school. I'm teaching at the school which is officially named Chaputnguak School but is usually called Chefornak School or just the school. The school has about 200 kids from K-12. I teach Special Education. I have about 15 students-the youngest is 3 and the oldest are 20.

I have taken some cool pictures but right now I'm not able to get them on the computer.
I'll also add some more information as we go along.

I hope you're still interested. It should be an interesting ride......