Sometimes I feel like this little country duck landed in the wrong pond. I am sure many in the village assumed we would have to adjust to "roughing it" out here in this new setting. However, being from a very laid-back, backwoodsy (I may have just created a new word there) community, we assumed a move to Alaska couldn't be too terribly different from our lives growing up. So I cannot help but find some humor that I often feel like I ended up in a place a bit fancier than I'm accustomed to and don't always know quite what to do with myself. We are constantly seeing foods and products that were so impossible to find back home that I always considered those items too fancy for a simple girl such as myself. What I considered fancy in Missouri seems to be the norm in Alaska - so much for "roughing it".
My world is also surrounded by some seriously fancy technology. Our school district has a quite complex network so I can print on any computer in the school district from my classroom - even 100 miles away in Soldotna. If we need a program added to our computer, we send an e-mail to the tech guy and he "pushes" the software onto our computer from his office somewhere far removed from our location. Whenever I log on to any computer in the school district, whether it be here in Nanwalek or Soldotna, all of my files go with me. If I save it in My Documents, I can access it from my desktop easily from any computer on the network without digging through shared files and folders on some mysterious drive. They are there as if I saved them to that computer's hard drive. When I click on outlook my e-mail automatically opens up without even entering my password. It's all pretty cool stuff, but far more advanced than this little duck is used to finding paddling around in her little mud puddle.
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