We had a parent night for the after school program. The program paid for $700 worth of Subway sandwiches to be flown in from Bethel, Alaska. Grant Airlines brought the sandwiches in free. That was really nice for the kids. Yes, we had mostly kids show for the night. The teacher's had to do an hour and a half tutoring session, then do the parent night without any pay. Susan and I were really tired after 12 hours of teaching work.

The snow just sits on the bushes where it lands. The sunlight does not melt it and we have not had strong winds to blow it off (an 0 degrees, that is good news!!).

Not much going on here. The temperature is staying around 0 degrees at night. Susan and I do after school program about three afternoons a week and/or sometimes a double session on Saturday. We get warn out by Saturday evening. The kids are great and love getting the snacks the after school program provides. They are required to work on the educational program the program supplies for at least 45 minutes of the hour and a half long session. At the very least this may help the student to develop the ability to stay focused for longer periods of time. We are doing popcorn reading in my classes. I have been doing research on reading development and trying different approaches. We need to work on comprehension if we are going to see any improvement in the Alaska State test. Here are some pictures I tried to get of a beautiful sunset. I even ran out in the snow to get around some brush that is close to the school buildings. The snow was a foot deep. It is not packed, but held up by high grass. The snow does not melt much because of the temp. When it does frees water drips through cracks above our back door and freezes solid during the night. It is very hard to open, if fact, I don't think Susan can bust it open. Also, the key hole gets water in it and won't let me get the key into it without hot water which only freezes back again. I am going to get the stuff a person can spray into car key holes when I go home for Christmas. We have a front door, course I spent an hour shoveling the steps and walk to the back door last Saturday. I am spend a lot of time on the school's computers. It is definitely more of a hobby.