I learned more about the dried fish everyone here eats that makes me kind of sick smelling it. I guess they take Poke fish or other little fish the locals catch and hang them up and smoke them with fire made from beach drift wood or blackberry bushes. This technique was in that Civilization video I watched and the America Before Columbus Video. Yes, I watch too many National Geographic movies now. Anyways, they do this in the summer and dry and slice and smoke the fish. Then they store it in seal oil for the winter and just take pieces out from the oil every day and eat it. The oil keeps it from spoiling. It also makes the fishy smell very strong. I cannot even get myself to try it. I do not like smoked fish anyways. Now i just wonder if they hunt seal in the summer or if they buy seal oil. I have only seen a walrus.
I finally put my ice walking shoe thingies on my boots and grabbed a pair of shoes to change into at work (because here in the Arctic you have to prepare for the elements and end up changing when you arrive somewhere because of all the layers and such). It was snowing in the morning and in the afternoon, the dirt road is slick from all of the 4 wheeler traffic. So today, when I am all prepared for the ice, it is all giant mud puddles instead of snow and ice. Yuck!