TRAINING!

Hi!
Long night. My roommate is fun. She's a bus driver. She likes to sleep with the window open and the heat off. I like that too.
I haven't been in Alaska long.
It really got cold last night. I hadn't noticed that she keeps a pile of blankets on her bed. Where'd she get those??? I had
one blanket.
At 3:00 a.m. I got up to hunt for the thermostat and close the window. After putting on socks, a robe over my flannel nightie and a hat, she gave me some more blankets. Ahhhh. Much better.
Class seemed to start quite early today, though.
Breakfast was incredible - and Ididn't cook a thing! Whew!
The lodges are impressive - even with the cloths over all furniture. There are even cloths over the moose heads hanging from the rafters. Some stores still have plywood boards over the windows. It's been a hard winter! In fact, in most of the buildings there is no running water - we have to hike across the central lawns to the one lodge that has functioning restrooms. It snowed four times today - while we watched from inside the classrooms.
Tonight we went for a hike - 8 of us. We found wolf tracks but with 8 of us the kids said we were fine. Evidently so. We're all back.
We were handed a quiz tonight and told we could work individually or help each other. A few of us held our first study group in the rec room and our homework is done - and I think it's perfect. It was so much fun.
It's fun. It's hard. The people are terrific!
g'nite!