Eek, my village

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Eek is a beautiful little village on the Eek river in the tundra of Western Alaska. The population here is about 280 people with a little less than 90 kids in the school, K-12. The nights are starting to get longer. The sun is rising about 7:30 am and the sun is going down before 10:00 pm, finally. There is nothing worse than starting to teach and the sun is still up at 11:30 and you can't get to sleep. I am keeping very busy with school and I am traveling to Bethel quite often for various meetings.

Can't wait for the snow!!!!!

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Photos

Eek 1
My lovely little house with 1200 square feet and two furnished bedrooms. I love it!

Eek 2
Eek School. We have a gym that doubles as the cafeteria. There are two high school teachers, one junior high teacher, three elementary teachers, one yup'ik language teacher, and me.

Eek 3
Additional teacher housing behind the school. The other teachers live here in this brand new building.

Eek 4
The view of the Eek River from the old airport.

Eek 5
The sunset view from my living room window.

Eek 6
The school grounds.

Eek 7
The town dump where the garbage is burned. This is the view from the other teacher housing. I like my view of the sunset better.