The Here and Now

3 days of airports, planes, and mile high food later and i have arrived in the frigid north.

i got in yesterday evening and spent a few hours setting up my apartment and getting a tour of the school.

this truely is the edge of the world.

the village looks like a scene from a documentary.
the shacks with peeling paint.
boardwalks weaving between buildings and surrounded by overgrown weeds and grass.

things are different here. i woke up at 9 this morning and kept an eye on the window. i haven't seen anyone out and about yet.
it's almost noon.
i stopped by the other teachers door. he's still in his bathrobe.

i started to think, half the day is almost gone. then, remebering that it stays light until well past midnight, i smacked myself in the forehead.

last night i stared into the sky at a quarter past 10. the sun was still a long ways from the horizen.

pictures of the town will come on a later post. i have yet to establish internet at my own home and am currently using the schools.

as a side note, i might add that all the boxes i so dilligently sent here starting over six weeks ago have not yet arrived. i will be forced to live off only what i brought in my suitcases.
for he past three days i have been cursing those bags of pain. their weight pulling my spirits down. i often wished that i had not packed so heavily. now i am left wishing that i had packed more. god only knows when the rest of my belongings will arrive.

last night, while discussing technology in the classroom with the principal, i found out that the district intends to purchase me an ibook. this information means that i will pocess a total of three laptops. two apples and a dell. (the dell made it all the way here in my suitcase. no scratches cracked screens.) what does a person do with all that computer power?