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.

Winter is coming!

I have not posted anything on this blog in a really long time. I have been rather busy and have not had internet at my house for like the past month or something. It sucks but I watch lots of movies and play lots of video games now.

My college class has been going very well. I only have three people that are able to correct my papers at the level I need them to be but I am hoping to fix that situation sometime soon.

Other then that I now think there is a mouse in my house. So I will probably be setting some traps later :P This is not what I meant when I said that I wanted to go trapping.

I am in a musical rut -__- so I've decided to take a break from guitar for awhile.

I don't think theres much else going on :P But I'm usually wrong and forget to write something down, oh well haha

First concert

Hello everyone! I know I haven't blogged in forever.

But tonight, I went to my first concert. It was pretty awesome. It was my favorite band. Linkin Park and Incubus :D

I came home and my head hurts, ears are ringing but I sure had fun :D and I'm like super tired so I'm gonna go lay down or something :P

Summer

I have been very busy this summer :D Been out fishing. Working, making money. Learning my job. Its been very fun. But fishing has been kinda lousy. Scratching by on the fishing. But my dad said once "I guess thats why you call it fishing". 

Other then that, my guitar practice has been going pretty ok. I practice when I can in between hauls. 

If you guys are wondering about what kind of fishing I do and how I do it, there is a video down below that will explain it. 

I've been trying to learn how to run the skiff for my dad. Also in the video, I don't work on that boat. 

Thats my dads boat :)

Anyways, I think that will be it for now. I might post when I have time. Or I might not if I forget :P

Steampunk

Ok, ever since I started listening to Abney Park, I've gotten more into Steampunk. To the point of where I want to make my own outfit. I'm not a fan of dresses but I've decided to make myself look like an "Airship Pilot".

I'm thinking of all these ideas and what I could buy and other things that I would have to make myself. :P

Other then that, guitar has been going awesome. I'm really happy with it.

I've been having such a good time down in Washington. But I'm ready to go home, go fishing. Make some moneys. I am going to miss the fast internet though haha.

I'm gonna go do something funish.

Ge-tar

Hey peoples! Whats up?

Well I'm not going home as soon as I expected. I don't mind. More time with the fam and two extra guitar lessons.

Guitar has been going good. Or well for all the people who winced at my bad grammar. I have been trying to cram a month and a half of work and practice into two weeks. It hard and I don't get much time to practice. I still think its going well. OH you know what? In the music center I was in waiting for my guitar teacher to show up, I saw a book of sheet music and tabs for Legend of Zelda songs! Haha I nearly died! It was awesome.

Anyways......hmm I need to think of better things to put on my blog :/ maybe I'd get more views and what not.

But other then all of that, I have nothing else :/ so I'll talk to you guys in the future.

Once I get home, I'm gonna be pretty busy I think. Boat work and guitar practice and what not. So yea

New Music

Today was a big shopping day :P we went to get some new clothes. Then we went and tried finding a beading shop, we couldn't find one so we'll go some other day. Then we got to go to Best Buy! I love Best Buy. I have a hard time finding CDs any where else besides the internet.

Well most of the reason that I went to Best Buy was that my guitar teacher told me of some CDs that I should get because of the influence they had on a lot of the bands I like. I got some CDs from Pantera, Metallica, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and then some of the CDs that I wanted.

I discovered a new band. Their called Abney Park. I like them but I have to order the CDs off amazon.

That song is one of the new songs off their new album which is going to come out next month. 

One of my friends was asking me to share his Youtube vids and channel. He likes to play guitar so yea. 

 

Thought I would share my discoveries and my day with you guys :P

I think I'm gonna go practice my scales :D

Guitars

On Monday I started my guitar lessons. I've only had two lessons but my fingers are sore :P Its been going really well. I have a cool teacher and my mom bought me an awesome acoustic guitar

My guitar :D Its pretty awesome, my mom also got me a tour case. 

Other then that, I went to a book store today, I love book stores :) got to buy a few books. We also went to a leather store today. Bought a section of leather and two rabbit furs. I was going to make little coin purses with it. 

Well I think thats it for now, hopefully I can go to a bestbuy sometime soon. Summer is going to be awesome

Seattle!

I am in Tacoma, Washington. School over with and summer has come. Well sort of. Theres still lots of snow in Chignik :/

Well on Monday I start my guitar lessons :P Gonna go over to a music store at 2PM to meet my teacher and buy a guitar. Then I'll have a half an hour lesson. Then I get to go home and PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE! Its gonna be awesome!

Well other then that, I'm gonna be doing lots of other cool stuff too. Like shopping for music and books! And video games :P

Well not sure what else to say, I'll update you guys every so often and maybe upload a vid of me practicing :P

:P

This last week has been amazing :) we had a lady come to our village and teach us about our culture. Song and dance, projects such as skin sewing(using fur and hide), and carving. We learned 12 song and dances this week. We also did a sewing project which was making pouches out of sea otter. I made one. I also carved a kayak out of cotton weed. Once I was done with that, I was able to start another pouch which I completed today. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it. I might try and sell it. I also might just give it to someone as a gift. :) Not sure yet.

Other then that, I am SUPER excited for summer! Get to go down to washington and see my family and get guitar lessons. :) I just can't wait to get out of school. I will seriously run out those doors and race home :D

Gonna be awesome. Other then that, not much else has happened :) so I will talk to you guys later :D

These weeks

Last week, I went to our AA meet/prom. I explained it in the lastest school blog post. I had lots of fun. I got to go to prom with my best friend. Once my professional prom pictures get in, I'll post them.

Lately, I've been working on becoming a ETT again. I'm taking an online class. Once everyone is done with the online portion, in the fall, our instructor is going to come down and do the hands on portion with us.

I've started looking at scholarships for college :P Well I was planning on saying more but I can't think of anything :P

Thinking.....

Did I ever tell you guys about my goal in NYO? I may have but if not, then this year, I want to make it to State NYO for the wrist carry. I was about 20 feet away from it last year. I kept telling myself that I was gonna make it this year. I have one little problem. I started training, usually did some pull ups everyday and sometimes other things like push ups. But then I stopped, for a really long time. Now, I'm kicking myself in the pants because I'm starting to doubt if I will be able to make it :/ But I'm going to try my hardest. I atleast want to make it to state, I don't even have to place in state, I just wanna make it.

So I'm going to work until I can't work anymore because I'm going to keep a positive mind set about it!

Guitars

Isn't it funny how you do one thing which leads to a few other things and finally you get something you've always wanted? Well a couple days ago, that happened to me. I posted a status on FB about wanting to learn to play the guitar and not having anyone to teach me since I live in a little tiny village. Well my aunt in Washington saw this and when she was talking to my mom, she said that she should try and find me guitar lessons for when I went down. I'm getting really excited and lately I have been looking through guitar buying guides. :)

Other then that, I am working on my last paper that I need to finish my level. Its going to be a fiction paper but I am having a hard time thinking of ideas. I will get there eventually.

Speaking of papers, I actually haven't worked on my book in a very long time. I just haven't had any idea for it. Nothing. So i haven't even looked at it. I figured that one day, my writers block will go away.

I personally can't wait for prom! I think it'd going to be a lot of fun. My mom bought me a beautiful dress and when we went up into Anchorage, we got it fitted. The AA Meet/Prom will be the 9th-13th of April.

Well thats about it for now. :)

Beautiful Things

My friend told me of this really good song. Its called "Beautiful Things" by a band called Gungor. Its actually really good.

Well other then that, I decided to create a bucket list. Yea, I know its cheesy and weird. But they say it really helps give you a perspective on your life. You know what I mean? Yes? No? Ok well if you don't, I'm sorry. Lately I have been confused so I think I need to do something that will help clear everything up.

Sometimes I wish I didn't live in a village. It makes everything so complicated sometimes. But I have gotten to experience things that are awesome. Like fishing, shooting, driving heavy equipment and lots of other things. I like living in a village.

Ok so I found this new website that you can sign up for and it will let you rate the books you've seen and give you recommendations! 

www.goodreads.com

Its really awesome! I am having to much fun with it at the moment so I am going to end this post :)

Juneau

All last week I was at Juneau for the Alaska Close Up. I learned a lot about our system of government and I got to meet a lot of new people. I also got sick -__-

Close Up was lots of fun. I learned A LOT about government. We learned about bills, senators, representatives, and what everyone does. Me and my friend, Erin, got to meet our representative and our senator and we showed them a project about a community problem. Ours was about all the old heavy equipment in our village that can't be used anymore. Both of our representative and senator told us that it was more of a local project and to talk to our village council.

It was a lot of fun, I made some new friends too. There was only 20 kids there and there was supposed to be about 40. I personally liked the smaller group better. Next year I am going to try to be an intern there.

I sadly do not get to play basketball :( My parents didn't want me traveling because I have already been gone a week and I'm sick. I do want to go but I can't. They have also combined the jamboree and districts so I do not get to play basketball at all this year. -__- I hate travel sometimes.

But this weekend, I get to go up to King Salmon and learn how to weld. So I'm excited about that. But from there, I travel straight to anchorage for spring break. We get to be there for the Fur Rondy. I've never been there before but my mom says its fun and there are a lot of things to do.

Well not much else has happened so yea :-/

Title-less book and music

I've noticed I start a lot of my posts with "Ok" and I was just about to do it to this one :-/ I usually can't think of anything else.

But, first off my book. I wouldn't say that its going great but its not going bad either. I have about 17,000 words at the moment. Sometimes I don't know what to write so I just don't because I don't want it to be boring. I found some websites with some helpful tips so I am going to post that on a secret FB group of writers ;)

Music, I found this new band called Thousand Foot Krutch. They are pretty awesome. I find them to be a toned down Escape the Fate mixed with AFI. But they are good so I would recommend looking them up. 

I was suppose to leave today for our Basketball jamboree but travel is cancelled until tomorrow. :/ But I still can't wait. After the jamboree, I get to go to Juneau for the Alaska CloseUp. Its gonna be awesome, there are going to be like 60 other kids there from around the state. Lots of work though and I don't have very much time. But I will take lots of pictures and post them if I can.

I am going to work on my stuff some more so bye :) 

Only in Alaska.......

Ok so at the moment, my face is freezing. I'll tell you why.

Me and my mother had to go down under our house to plug in some heat tapes so our pipes wouldn't freeze. There was a tremendous amount of ice around this one pipe.We were looking all around and this light bulb didn't work so I went to go get another one. Guess what? She locked the door so I had to go out and try to get some keys from my dad house. His door was locked so my dad called one of his friends to help us. My dads in Anchorage. We were standing around and waiting so I looked around and grabbed a wrench and started hitting the ice. There was like 7 inches of ice. I got quite far before my dads friend came over and helped us. He went and got the keys and I kept working at the ice. He got the keys so my mom went into the house and I stayed to help. He hit the ice for awhile with a hammer and we stopped it dripping. So he said he would bring a space heater over tomorrow and thaw it all out. So we all went home........

BUT THEN! My dad called and said that his friend was coming over again and we had to get heat tape cords out of the nearly SEVEN inches of ice. It took quite awhile. But after taking turning of shipping away with a hammer and a chisel, we finally got it.

I bet tomorrow, my arms, my chest and my joints are gonna hurt because we were hitting that ice pretty hard. But I would rather deal with that kind of stress then emotional. I can shovel snow for a couple hours and be fine but I hate emotional stress. Well that's my story for today.

An "Only in Alaska Story" :) I don't mind, makes life exciting

It's awesome when.......

Ok so I was just thinking about this morning and when I was putting on my shirt, I looked at my arms and flexed and thought "I got a nice piece of muscle right there". I thought it was pretty awesome. But I hate when I go through the air port and the two guns on my shoulders get me in trouble :D You see what I did there? If not then I really hate when I walk through a metal detector and my abs of steel set it off.

So yea, I thought all of that was pretty awesome. Well on Friday in b-ball practice, we did lunges and leg throws and Saturday and Sunday, I was super sore. It really hurt a lot. But today, I'm not sore so thankfully practice won't kill me.

Last night, I played The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for a little over four hours. I actually got pretty far in it. Its awesome.

I've noticed I say a lot of random things on my blog :-/ Hmm well I don't think thats going to change anytime soon haha. Ok well that is it for now :D