Monday, April 12, 2004
Where I Live Part One
Categories: Art • Life • Religion
I guess I’ll tell you about the place I live in. Its a native village quite literally in the middle of nowhere. Angoon has a population of about 572.
As you may know I’m a teacher. I have 15 students in grades 2, 3 and 4. The village is on an island (Admiralty Island) that has more brown bears per square mile than any other place in the world. I’ll try to get some good pictures of the bears up sometime soon but they are not hard to find. I bumped into three of them my first year here as I walked to the school I teach at. My heart was pumping a little bit.
Anyway the town can be quite beautiful at times, as most of Southeast Alaska can be. The picture above is a panoramic shot I took during my first year in Angoon. The houses you can see are along “Front Street” which is the site of the original native village. You can see the edge of the elementary school I work at on the far right of picture. It was a beautiful sunny day and one of those moments were you can almost feel God there watching you. A zen moment I suppose, for those of you who aren’t into God. I’m sure some more pictures will follow as I get the time to take them and put them up.
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