Kari Teaching in Cool Places : Tuluksak, Alaska

Kari Meets Namibia meets Kari Teaching in Cool Places

Looks like my blogging days are about to be revisited….I can’t believe that it has already been two years since I was student teaching in Namibia. In some ways, it feels like it was just yesterday. Since Namibia, I completed my student teaching in Tacoma, WA, graduated, and moved to Minnesota. I have had a rewarding and fun year teaching extended day Kindergarten in Chaska, MN. But as summer was approaching I was looking for a new adventure. Admittedly, I know a little too much about the Real Housewives of every city and all contestants on the Bachelor (Sean and Catherine for life) . I decided it was time to be immersed in a new culture, school, and gain perspective.

I was excited for the opportunity to go with seven other PLU alum and our professor Jan Weiss to the Tundra of Alaska to teach a three week summer school program. Between the eight of us, we are split into three Yupik villages: Tuluksak, Akiak, and Akiachak. I am in Tuluksak, with my cousin Linnea, my new friend, and PLU alum, Alyssa Johnson. We have been warmly welcomed into the community and just completed our first day of Summer School. I thought I would share some photos of our first days here in Tuluksak!

Enjoy!

P.s. they are serious when they say it does not get dark in the summer. Thanks for my eye mask dad! Such a clutch.