SNOW!

Hi All,
We finally got some fresh snow--about 3-5 inches. Of course since they don't plow the roads we have new snow over a nice ice layer, making for very slippery driving!

I joined a group called the Meet-Up Outdoor Adventure Group--yep me! They do all sorts of outdoor stuff--downhill, X country, snowshoe, hiking, etc.--you get it! Well,
I actually went to a Meet-Up to X ski. What a blast!! It was Tuesday at 6pm--snowing like crazy, dark and I didn't know where the hell I was going--or with who--but I went anyway--I'm so proud of myself!!!!! There were 4 of us-1 skate skier, 1 really good skier, me and a total novice. The trail was lit in most spots, but for a while it was dark--I'll have you know I only fell once and didn't even sit on my skis to go down the really big hills--yep, the hills were better when I couldn't see the bottom!!! LOL! No moose sitings either--bummer! Get this though, out of the 3 other skiers-- one has a daughter in my class--small town!!

Tomorrow they have a full moon bonfire get together with their dogs--don't think I'm going--too much grading :(

Speaking of grading--I gave my first test on Tuesday over the Trojan war--I have many short essays to grade :(

I had 2 meetings today--so I had a half-day sub--she sent 2 of my heathens to the office!! :) They have 2 morning detentions and have to do work all day Friday--it's team reward day!
By they way my team is called the Serpentine Team--all of the teams are named for Alaskan Glaciers--I think it's really named for the little snakes in my classes!

Then I had a mentor meeting--( have a mentor-Toni from my school) it was all the way across town--on one of those highways that all of the sudden stop--not real easy, to stop that is, in the icysnow. Icysnow one of the million words Eskimos have for snow--LOL!
Anyhow, I got paid $50 big ones for going and my mentor invited me over for dinner next week--SCORE! She is from Seward and has 3 kids 1, 3 and 10 yrs. YIKES! But--she has a husband from Seward...I had to tell her the Seward Chad story--get this--he use to be a charter fishing captain. Now he teaches captaining!! She said he's a Chad--soon to see!

Hey, even more news--I'm house and dog sitting for a teacher at school. She goes to Mexico every Christmas and asked me if I wanted to stay at her house--bonus-- she has a dog--but would board her if I didn't like dogs--ha ha! She lives close to downtown Anchorage--should be fun to see another part of town.

Denise (B & B lady) has a "BIG" open house this Sunday--should be a treat!

That's all for now--miss you all!

PS-Katie finished up her 1st semester at WMU--Yeah!