Today I continue to pack my family's belongings in boxes and bins to ship to Kotlik, Alaska. We have to ship everything through the post office because there are no roads out to Kotlik, so therefore there is no way of driving up a truck with our belongings. I am moving to Kotlik to teach sixth grade, my husband will be a stay at home father while doing some internet work, our daughter will be in fifth grade, and our son may be in preschool. We are leaving Las Vegas, Nevada to move to a village that is called home to under seven hundred people. We are moving site unseen, it is definitely an adventure for us. We have moved around quite a bit throughout our marriage but never so drastic of a move. It will test us in every way. I believe we will come out stronger and better than before we moved there.
Am I nervous?
Maybe a little, but I am definitely more excited than anything else. I look forward to challenging myself to provide for my family in new ways. There is no WalMart or grocery stores open all night. We must enter our village with enough food and items to hold us over for months. There is a tiny general store in the village but you don't want to use it too much as the prices are very high.
Continue to check in to see how my family and I fair in our new surroundings!
Jacqueline Gosch
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