The winter

Decided I should update about my life. Everything has been going fine. Flight school is good. Dogs are good. 

I just got back from a basketball jamboree that was up in Levelock. Because our school district is so small, we have to play co-ed which means boys and girls on one team instead of separate teams. I was still able to travel even though I was the only one on our team. I was able to play on Levelocks team and be a temporary viking. My teacher and I got stuck in Levelock one more day because of the weather here. It wasn't bad, he showed me around Levelock because he used to teach there and we were able to go to night gym. 

Lately in Chignik, the weather has been warm. It hasn't felt like winter. But one day we had this really bad snow storm. It had gusts up to 70 MPH and constant wind around 30 MPH. I didn't go to school that day. What I did do instead was go out and salvage wood to start up the fire place. That consisted of me putting on carrharts, a fur hat, mukluks (fur boots), and a sweat shirt. I couldn't find my coat so I just ran and kept my back to the wind so I didn't get too cold in my sweat shirt. I would go out of my house, take shelter near a wall that wouldn't have any wind and when it died down a bit, I would run and hurdle over four foot snow drifts until I reached another little sheltered area. I would grab an empty box and fill it with lots of wood scraps and kindling. One of the trips I made, I grabbed a propane torch out of the shop, which made the process of lighting the fire so much easier.

After all that I would repeat the process to get the wood back into my house. I did that a few more times until I ran out of wood to find. Wood fires keep the house very warm for a long time and thankfully, I didn't get burnt when putting wood into the fire place. 

I wouldn't say I was exactly smart sometimes. It'll be 20 degrees out and I'll run out to our "shop" in a tee shirt and sweat pants, which has most of our food in it. My mom would always get mad at me and say stuff about what if I fell or something. She makes sense but I'm too lazy. Haha

Anyways, something else that I would say that was interesting around here is the TV and internet. :P We have to have satellites for both. We are so far from "civilization" that we have to rely on dishes to get our internet and TV. I have four or five in my front yard. They're normal to me so I never really cared but they could be considered an eye sore. We don't get the greatest internet or TV but it's something. 

Village life

Ok so one of my friends said that I should make this blog more about village life and my "normal life". Because what I think is normal is different from what most people think. Like the fact that I think a gallon jar of mayo is normal compared to the 5 oz or whatever it is.

So I think I'm going to explain a little more about village life. At the moment its sleeting. Never a fun combo. A plane is actually going to try and land. A small plane, not a big one. A caravan to be exact. They are able to hold about 12 passengers in total without having much mail. They are pretty ok to fly on but if it's windy out then you probably aren't going to have a good time. We have good pilots but it's still scary. I have been on some scary plane rides. But for some reason I still want to get my pilots licence.

Something else thats different about living in a village is that we have to ship everything in. By air or by water. We don't have a grocery store that we can go too. We have to buy food in bulk and store it. Lots of processed food and canned food.

In the summers we go fishing. In the winters we go hunting. These are amazing because we can take some of the fish home and that meat. We can freeze it, can it, dry it, and many other things. All of it is fresh, we don't have to deal with farmed fish or meat with hormones in it.

I think thats it for now, I'll have to think of some more stuff to explain and talk about

:P

I have not posted in a very long time. Few months. Well I past my college English with a B and carpel tunnel, boo. Next semester, I am going to take a online ground school class. I want to get my private pilots license. The carpel tunnel hinders my guitar playing quite a bit but I play through the pain.

Other than that I can't wait to do some more welding. I leanred a lot at my second welding class. I enjoy it and I made some new friends.

I have been learning how to crotchet. I am crotcheting a baby blanket and it started out rough but its been going smoothly since. Yellow and green stripes with a pink border. Pastel colors.

I am kind of sad and amazed that it is my senior year. School has been fun and I can't kind of wait to go to college but I'm going to miss high school. My mom also ordered my prom dress and when we go out in Feburary to get it fitted.

Other than all of that, I think thats it :P that was short.