When I arrived, there were no roads. The roads were constructed before school started and consisted of bringing in tons of a mixture of dirt and small rocks, spreading it out and rolling over it for about a week. Not much of a road, but higher than the gravel and much easier to walk on. The gravel was loose and like walking on the beach all the time. I'm not sure I could have stayed if we'd not gotten roads.
The top picture is our school. John Apangalook School, named after one of the elders who had been a long time friend of the school.
The second picture I put in for the benefit of Anne Gentle: this is our hotel. They call it the Birder's Lodge. It took me a while to figure out that this was the building they were talking about because it looks nothing like a lodge to me!
The third picture is of the wind turbines. You see a truck in the foreground, but it was only there during the construction of the roads. The turbines provide a lot of the energy on the island.
The fourth picture is a view from my bedroom. Not my favorite one, but I'll show those later.
The last one is my home...the six-plex. Our windows are the ones on the far left. We have two sets of windows at the end and we have the best view of any teacher. Through these windows we can see the entire village down to the school. On the other side we can see to the ocean. We're the envy of the teachersQ
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