Week in Review

0Josh • 9th Apr 2005 • blog entries, nome., station life, travel

It’s a beautiful Saturday morning, the sun is shining, our house is clean, I’ve got a pretty good week behind me, and my parents arrive in just about two hours. This week was a pretty good, I spent lots of time working on the new KICY website which reminds me of all the computer work that I used to do for 8 hours a day….I’m not sure how something can be fun and lame at the same time, but it is.

I guess we’ll go all the way back to the last post, I apologize for not posting more frequently but I’ve got other things to do…..like stuff. The concert in Brevig went well, about half the village showed up, and it was interesting to me because I had never been in a village this small, in fact the two villages that I had been two are the largest in the area each with about 900 people. We flew out there on the plane owned by the “Christian Pilots Association”. It was a larger plane, but still only held about 6 people at the most. I had about 15 minutes to setup the broadcasting equipment after we got there, but luckily was able to rise to the challenge. We sent the audio back to Nome and on the air and things sounded great. I didn’t really have to many authentic native experiences just because I was there for such a short amount of time, and stayed with 5 other white guys from Nome in construction housing.

Friday night, just when Lydia and I thought we had enough crab a few days before, I went out crabbing with Neil, Jamie, Nate and Michael and we caught 5! Heres the only problem, one of the stations snowmachines was broken, so everyone thought my 4wheeler would work, so I took that. It worked fine, except that because of how fast we were going, and how high the handle bars are, after riding for 30 minutes even with mittens on, my hands started to freeze. Neil was nice enough to trade machines with me part way back and it allowed my paws to warm up and I didn’t have to lose any fingers. We did take the 5 delicious crabs back to our house and everyone had a crab eating extravaganza..it was great.

The Military Ball on Saturday, I got to wear my suit and some people even wore tuxedoes. Lydia was on shift at the radio station on Saturday so about 20 minutes after we got there we had to leave and go turn on a remote broadcast coming in from Fairbanks. Luckily we were just able to turn it on, and head back to the dinner. They had the “Air Force Band of the Pacific” up and they were very talented and fun to listen to.

It should be fun this week with my parents here, I’ll try and keep you updated more regularly as the week goes on, I’m sure this one won’t be nearly as routine as the last few have been.