The kids were insane last week because of the PFD's. Half the village is drunk I guess. You have kids exhausted, upset, hyped up on junk food, coffee and soda, high on pot or huffing gasoline and half of them just not showing up for school. The ones who show up are so exhausted they just sleep on the floor, or they are so upset and worked up because of bad stuff at home they they are just mean and disrespectful. One of my fave 8th grade girls who is always so nice to me and does her work was so mean to me on Friday. She openly defied everything I said and just kept telling me "No". A girl had her dad called during class because she just kept responding with "what?" to every question or instruction and just took the school laptop into the hall to use it. When her dad wanted to talk to her she just hung up the phone and started crying in a corner. I had to send a kid to the office and he got suspended because he was causing such a disturbance and making girls cry. I saw 3 middle school boys who were high on something in my class. Kids are finally getting suspended for chewing, but I would say 75% of the middle schoolers chew tobacco and they get it from their parents.
It has been snowing a tiny bit on and off the last two days. Barely anything is sticking and it is not too cold. However, I have been getting a taste of how wicked that wind from the Bering Sea can be! Holy cow! I need a face mask! It almost blows you over sometimes when walking to school. The school and our apartments are maybe 50 yards from the sea. I have been told the wind can get so strong that it lifts up your kitchen linoleum. Thank goodness the walk is only 1/3 of a mile, shorter if you cut across the tundra. The weather is one huge reason why I would prefer to work at the school. The clinic is maybe a mile away, same with the government offices. I would be overrun with joy if I got hired at either of those places, but walking to work each day in the winter would be rough. I think I want to pick out a heavy parka soon online because I am a tad wimpy when it comes to the cold. But my layers do keep me warm when needed! Of course the parka I want is $450...
The kids were insane last week because of the PFD's. Half the village is drunk I guess. You have kids exhausted, upset, hyped up on junk food, coffee and soda, high on pot or huffing gasoline and half of them just not showing up for school. The ones who show up are so exhausted they just sleep on the floor, or they are so upset and worked up because of bad stuff at home they they are just mean and disrespectful. One of my fave 8th grade girls who is always so nice to me and does her work was so mean to me on Friday. She openly defied everything I said and just kept telling me "No". A girl had her dad called during class because she just kept responding with "what?" to every question or instruction and just took the school laptop into the hall to use it. When her dad wanted to talk to her she just hung up the phone and started crying in a corner. I had to send a kid to the office and he got suspended because he was causing such a disturbance and making girls cry. I saw 3 middle school boys who were high on something in my class. Kids are finally getting suspended for chewing, but I would say 75% of the middle schoolers chew tobacco and they get it from their parents.
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