Hallelujah Everybody!!!

Eric's new toy

Meet LKSD's new Teacher-of-the-Year....T-T-T-T-t-t-t-immmyyyy Debilt our very own jedi teaching master. He recieved his award yesterday at our district wide in-service. He went white(some say green) when Eric approached the podium and announced his name. It was awesome and well deserved!! Way to go Mommy!!

News and Notes

1. Tomorrow smoking salmon...jerking(haha spellchecker) caribou - Full day

2. No snow - 40 degrees today...easy to complain about the lack of snow, but too nice to sit in the house. No fish, we tried.

3. Here's a new one for you: I blew a tire on a 4-wheeler oil drain plug. It was sticking out of my back tire about 2 inches. Tim's question: Who's machine doesn't have any oil? We were 5 miles from town. Made it home fine, plug fell out after about a mile. I had just enough air to make it home. The low air pressure kept the front end of the car low to the track. Had some good handling and the bump draft with Tim was more effective. The car handled real good.

4. Ball team is still without a "w" - last chance is this weekend. If we don't chalk up a "w" then we are done. Team has already decided to go sledding, skiing, snowboarding up in the mountains. That depends on #2.

5. Store has Apple butter again. This probably deserves its own blog entry, but I'll put it here. I brought four. Two for me and one each for Tim and Eric. My apple butter memoirs: Methodist church parking lot - for what I believe was called "October fest" - homemade apple butter. Only time of year we had it. That was a long time ago. I was a very small. Probably 4'0". One more: Junior/senior year high school - lunch time - One personal microwave pizza, 1 plain bagel/butter, banana, toast/apple butter. Everyday. I was 6'2"

Hallelujah and Jesus...That's all I got.

Here is a song that my 5th graders sang today in their Yupik class. They sang for 40 minutes and at the end I said, lets record that one. You know. That one. I have a limited Yupik vocabulary, so they went back and found the right one. I wanted this song, because they genuinely seemed happy to sing it and sang it louder than any other. The pictures are from last winter. Right know we have zero snow. zero.



Hallelujah Maligciqaq

(Chorus)
Hallelujah maligciqaqa Jesus tumikun
Elliin maryarciqanga (ciunerkamnun)
Ayauciqanga nunakamnun-llu-pakmavet
Hallelujah maligciqaqa Jesus

1st verse
Alainat pelluciqut mani nunami
atunqigngaunateng yani
iquani atumangailameng,
Hallelujah maligciqaqa Jesus.

(Chorus)

2nd verse
Jesus qanellruuq tumkauniluni
ilumulria yuullerkaq
kina taingaituq wangkun taugaam
Hallelujah maligciqaqa Jesus

(Chorus)

3rd verse
Jesus qanellruuq qanerluni
ataam whi taiciqua
teguyarturluki wiinga yugkanka
Hallelujah maligciqaqa Jesus.

(Chorus)

Timmy's famous!!

Here is the story the Tundra Drums newspaper did on Tim. It was hilarious watching him read it for the first time last night. First, he made sure they didn't have a picture and then glared at me. lol

http://www.thetundradrums.com/article/0953village_life_attack_of_the_frozen_feces

Great title - they even linked the story on the adn.com newspaper in village section. Eric spent the day sending this link to everyone he could think of, including the superintendents. hahaa

Happy New Year - NOW DUCK AND COVER!!!

Pictures from the end of Sammy's display. I missed the really good stuff.

Quinhagak rang in the new year this morning much like the rest of the world, but with its own little twist. After a few of us teachers finished watching "Public Enemy" with Johnny Depp, as John Dillenger. We stepped outside, just five minutes before the stroke of midnight. Much like the shoot em' movie we just witnessed on screen, Quin was ablaze with gunfire. I got to admit the gunfire raised the heart rate a little, because it sounded like 5 opening day deer hunts wrapped in one. I sank into the shadows and watched a most impressive fireworks display put on by the corporation store and our neighbor Sammy. Sammy owns the video store and according to reports had $4,000 of the "good stuff" as I like to call it. As a guy who blows a lot of money of the 4th, I got to say I was more than impressed. Maybe jealous?? idk. One thing the fireworks did do, was distract us from gunfire that was accompanying it. Kids kept wanting to know why aren't you shooting Jim. I didn't tell them the real reason. I was hiding. Happy New Year everyone! Here's to a great 2010!