Sea Week officially ended today. Yesterday we picked up trash around the village to help clean up the community. One of the elders in the village killed a sea lion for the students to do a biomass study on so part of class was on the beach - I could get used to that. Today ended with the kids giving presentations to the community and a pot luck. Our class prepared mussels we picked from the end of the runway this morning and peroskies (like fried pies, but with fish and rice instead of fruit). That was a bit of an adventure as I've never worked with sticky rice and no one here seems to know how to cook rice without a special rice steamer pot. It's a bit fun to see the shock on their faces when they find out that we do not have one of those fancy little contraptions. I had to remind them that we do not eat rice with nearly every meal, but instead eat potatoes like any good Southerner.
Summer is well on its way with the sun rising at 5:30 and setting at 10:30 giving us nearly 19 hours of visible light. With the temperatures only in the 40s, though, I'm still waiting for some warmth to come with the sunshine. Our kitty is trying to enjoy the sunshine by venturing out onto the porch, but the crows keep chasing her back inside. Sometimes I wonder if I own the only cat in the world who is apparently afraid of birds.
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