Get a Job!
Well, after a year living fancy-free, it’s time for yours truly to replenish the bank account. Since I don’t really have any skills that might pay what I think I deserve, I’ve decided to resurrect my teaching career and take a long-term substitute teaching position up in Alaska’s North Slope. For one month, I will be a special-ed teacher at a junior high in Barrow, the most northern community in North America. Then I will be assigned to take on special-ed duties in Wainwright, a small village some 75 miles down the coast. Both communities are mostly Inupiaq Eskimos. Wainwright is a subsistence village relying on whaling, and hunting seals, walrus, and caribou for food. Both towns are along the Arctic Ocean. And while this place is technically in America, bush Alaska ain’t like no place else in the states.
So the next few blog entries will give me something to do in the evenings as the long summer days quickly become dark winter nights.
Tags: alaska, arctic ocean, Barrow, bush, Travel
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