Hey there everyone, sorry it has been on long since my last post. I am super busy lately and since it is the weekend decided to update everyone on my status up here in the vast world of Alaska! I arrived in Anchorage, Alaska via a long trip beginning at 3:30AM in De Soto, Wisconsin and heading for the Minneapolis, Minnesota airport for my flight that left at about 9:00AM. I travelled for roughly 5 hours via plane to Anchorage. As anyone can imagine travelling by yourself has both pluses and minuses. I, having little sleep, did not much care for the prolonged stay on the runway in Minneapolis. After we took off I was a little more comfortable, the trip up was not too eventful besides seeing some amazing scenery through the plane windows, the Northern Rocky Mountains and some pretty cool Glaciers just to the Southeast of Anchorage. Once we arrived in at the Anchorage :Ted Stevens International Airport and deplaning as well as making my way down to baggage claim I was totally exhaused. But, the bags were the least of my worries, I had to figure out how I was going to get to my hostel without anyone to help me get on and off the city bus and not knowing which bus to take. If any of you have ever needed an information desk for directions and no one was there you now what I mean. There wasn't anyone in sight at the baggage claim "Info Desk." So I was on my own. I was able to find some signs to point me in the right direction of the bus however I didn't know when the bus would come. I waited for about 30 minutes and finally was walking toward the taxi line when the bus came around the corner. I got on the bus and made my way to the Downtown Transit Center. However, what I didn't realize was that bus drivers on the "airport" bus don't like people with luggage. The woman driving the bus throughly chewed some of the passengers out for having luggage in the aisles as well as taking up too many seats with extra luggage. Needless to say I was one of those people. Joy to the world there. I finally arrived at the bus station downtown and preceded to wait some more for the next bus. While waiting I was able to take in some of the colorful Anchorage residents. I never knew there would be some many people in Anchorage visiting. Many of the people I met were from other parts of the world including South Africa. When I got on the next bus I was able to relax a little this bus driver was extremely helpful and decided to give me information about where the best place stop would be and how many blocks I would need to go to get to my stop. It was nice to have someone care. I got to my hostel at about 2:00PM Anchorage time so about 5:00PM Central time. So I had been traveling for about 14 hours. I dropped my suitcases off and went in search of lunch and then a nap or more like bed time. I slept until about 5 am the next more and got up to find the best place to go shopping and ordering supplies. I took the bus to southern Anchorage to a place called Dimond Center. It was nice to be able to do a little shopping and look around the town some more. I was in Anchorage for a couple of days and then took another trip to Dillingham.
In Dillingham I had New Staff Inservice for about 14 days. I was a little much having to stay in a hotel for that long but I was able to meet many of the people I will be working with for the rest of the school year as well as all of the staff from around the district. More to come soon!!
Enjoy the weekend, I sure will!
NIKKI
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