A Little Bit of Chevak for You

Well, my last few posts have been pretty wordy, so here are some pictures of Chevak for you.

 The view from my plane window as we flew from Bethel to Chevak.

 As you can see, the weather was a bit gross, but the flight was actually very smooth.

 This was our pilot.  He was pretty, but he was not very nice.

 This picture is a little dark, but here is Falon on her first bush plane flight.

 This is the view of the houses across the lake in Chevak.  The lake is right in front of the school and the teacher housing.  We were walking past it on our way to explore the village.

 The lake from a different direction.

 The side of the school and some of the playground.

 One of the two churches in Chevak - The Uttermost Tabernacle :)

 The blue building with the cross on it is the other church in Chevak.

 From what I hear, this red building is the old school.  I'm happy to be in the new school building.

 The front door of the school.  It is a very nice building.

 I have my very own name plate next to the door of my very own classroom!

 This is what my classroom looked like when I saw it for the first time.  

It's pretty plain, but I'm sure I can fix that ;-)  I am not the most creative person in the world, but even some posters up on the wall would make it look better.

I have made a little more progress than what you see here, but I still have a lot of work to do!  

It's a tad overwhelming...

 Those cupboards are full of stuff from the previous teacher!  I have some organizing to do!

 Well, as you can see, Falon and I had the chance to explore the village a little bit on the day after we got here.  We went to the health clinic so I could get my TB test read for my physical, we checked out one of the stores and saw a $17.00 small bag of frozen P.F. Chang's and a $15.00 jar of mayonnaise, we went to the post office and got our new PO boxes, and we went to the school and took a first look at our classrooms.  There is certainly more left for us to explore!   Everywhere we went people said hello, asked if we were new teachers, and welcomed us to Chevak.  The people here are so friendly!