Inservice Training

This Thursday and Friday the teachers in our school have gone to Mountain Village for training. It was quite the adventure just getting onto the plane to leave our village for our training village. About seven teachers headed down to the runway to get on to the first plane leaving and I was supposed to be on the second plane leaving. We got a call that they needed two more teachers on the first plane. Lore and I went out to the plane by way of "Honda." Well a Honda in the Bush is not a car, it is a quad. So Lore and I were bogged down with our stuff sitting on the back of a quad, getting raced to the runway. We were making good time, which meant our pants were getting soaked. The rain had just stopped minutes before we left, so the boardwalks were covered in rain and mud. The back of my pants were completely coated in mud when we arrived at the plane.

Here is a good picture of my muddy pants!


The pilot announced that he could only take one more person, not two. So Lore decided to wait for the next plane so she could fly with her husband. I got into the plane and we took off. The Bush pilots are very nice, but our pilot seemed to be doing everything but actually looking out the window. He was filling out forms, cleaning up the floor on the plane, and taking pictures of me flying the plane with my camera! He was very good-humored. He explained all the different things on the dashboard and what they do. He demonstrated some of the functions of the things on the dashboard by flying up and down and side to side. It was great fun for me, but unfortunately some of the other passengers got very sick feeling.

Here is our pilot hard at work, filling out paperwork while flying a plane.

Our happy crew flying into Mountain Village, Alaska!

Here is the photo the pilot took of me flying the plane, while he was supposed to be flying the plane.

I will post more later about our adventure...
Jaki :)