Imagine this, you are walking down a street, one you are almost too familiar with, you see on your right the house where the older couple...

The third week of November. Months ago. It was cold, dark and rainy. And there was a night where I spent 5 hours sitting on the floor of...

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What is really going on in Alaska? What you thought and what I know after 6 months. From earthquake drills to tsunami warnings my poor...

It was mid day when I got home from school on a busy Friday only to realize that my bike was not in its usual spot outside of my house....

Every week presents new and sometimes exciting challenges as a single individual who only makes $1200.00 a month. This is an AmeriCorps...

“Congratulations! You are now a college graduate” This is something written in endless cards, wrapped in way too strong awkward family...

For those of you that do not know, the great 49th state in the USA was sold to the US from Russia. That selling occurred on October 18th...

Hello fine people of the internet.......over the past month a lot has happened in Sitka, Alaska.....rain not being one of them. Which is...

Everyone was up super early in the morning. Some of us eager to get back to Sitka, and others were taking in the scenery of the water and...

Mt. Edgecumbe View of the sunset from SeaMart Julia and I at the Welcome to Sitka sign after searching for it for a week! In a valley...

This past weekend all of the AmeriCorps members had the opportunity to go camping at Samsing cabin about 20 minutes away from Sitka off...

So for all of those beautiful people out there still reading my blog, we have a weather update that it is shockingly still hot and sunny...

This morning at 8 am we had our fist day of orientation for AmeriCorps. It was filled with a lot of information and a lot of laughs....

Since it was labor day weekend, we all had a three day weekend which was much needed. Instead of spending my usual labor day weekend on a...

So this week has been very uneventful. I have just been setting up my classroom, meal prepping(I have to bring lunch to school every day)...

Today it rained. A lot. But it was also my first day at the high school. It was very exciting and underwhelming at the same time. At...