Hey everyone who checks this! This is Tori and Mia…right now we’re hanging out in our kitchen…eating Mac ‘N Cheese and drinking smoothies. Florida has been really fun so far…except for all the storms. There was a giant lightning storm today, and I[mia] was scared that we’d get hit by lightning. Haha. We also went to Disney World/Animal Kingdom[we'll email some pictures to Ms. Brown so she can put them on here], and went shopping….and spent a great deal of money.

Hope you guys had fun at Bible Camp….we were tanning and swimming in the pool the whole time. Buuuuut…we were thinking about you and Unalakleet too. Well, maybe not.

Anyway, we’ll send pictures to Ms. Brown….enjoy the rest of your summer, we know we will!

-Tori J. & Mia C.

Another school year, another excuse of proclaiming further wisdom in life. Now we’re off in our different directions in this world, never again to cross paths for three months. Unless we see each other. But for the sake of anxiety, lets just pretend to hope we don’t. Really the only I can say is that I hope I never see any of you, my classmates and teachers, again without remembering how much fun we had. Its very bugging to me when I think of you guys and how you treated me this year, because there’s got to be some catch to the good classmate-ship you’ve given me. It’s been real! Take care.

-Hunter Dill

Cold Water survival was interesting. I liked the part when me and shyler built our shelter out of a rock, two trash bags, 4 peices of duct tape, and some random objects around the classroom. I geuss our shelter was awsome, cuz after we were about 3/4 of the way done with our shelter alot of people started copying us. Another part I liked was when we got to pull other group members in with a rope in the gym. It was pretty cool when we gout our survival packs. That was Cold Water Survival.

My favorite part about the whole cold water survival thing was when stu put on the life vest. I liked this part because Stu blew up the vest and he screamed. I thought it was really funnyand that we all should of got to blow up a vest. Even though yesterday was cool in that aspect that stu was funny but otherwise that, it was really sort of boring. I mean when people went in the water it was only like a foot deep and only Devin went in. I also wish we could of all had a chance to get a prize. I did but a lot of other people didn’t and I felt a little bad for them.

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Today, the coolest part about Cold Water Surviving was when they put that PFD (Personal Floatation Device) on me. It was so unexpected, Jason had grabbed a cup of water and put it on the CO2 container. BAM!!! The life jacket had blown up in like two seconds and it made me twitch a little. I had thought that it would blow up in like a minute or two. That was one of the coolest things that had happen to me in class.

Yesterday the middle school learned about cold water survival. Heidi and Jason are two instructors from Nome who specialize in training people what to do in case of emergencies. They spent the morning with the 7th grade and the afternoon with the 8th grade. They taught us about the importance of survival kits, trash bags, what to do when you fall through the ice, how to put on survival suits, and identification and treatment of hypothermia.  As a class we went through all the pictures in this post and came up with captions. Enjoy!

This is a picture of our Cold Water instructors, Heidi and Jason. They are teaching us about the seven steps of survival. The seven steps are: recognition, inventory, shelter, water, food, and play.

Pictured above is Deion Foote, Stuart Towarak, and Chris Lockwood. Chris just got finished saving Bubba by throwing him the life line. Chris was”stuffing” the rope back into the life baggy.

This is Stuart in his PFD (personal flotation device, NOT permanent fund dividend). Stuart got quite a surprise when Jason activated the water sensor on his pfd causing it to inflate rather explosively.

This is Heidi showing us how to put on the Heidi suit. She can put her suit on in 40 seconds!

Shyler putting his survival suit on, store bags in first. The store bags are important because they help your shoes slide into the suit faster, saving time and possibly your life.

Stuart and Bubba demonstrating to the class how to execute the “chain swim” position. They were very uncomfortable in their suits.

Ms. Brown in the Gumbi Suit! She had one of the slowest times….clocking in at 60 seconds flat.

Linda and Deion hanging out in their trash bag shelter. They were asked to make a shelter out of one trash bag and two pieces of duct tape each.

Jennie in her trash bag shelter/sleeping bag.

Ms. Brown and Shyler in the survival suit trying to give the thumbs up.

Jason and Devin getting ready to go into the water. Unfortunatly, only Devin got to go in the water because the slough was too shallow.

Devin being “slow and cautious” entering the water.

The audience members hanging out on a log next to the slough. It appears that Chris did not want to be in the picture.

Devin and Jason post swim.

Mia had the same experience as Stuart and was shocked when her life jacket exploded.

Kim and Corinna being zipped up into their suits.

Donald all ready to go in some cold water.

Kim frolicking out of the slough after a swim in the survival suit.

Mia being saved by the rope.

Linda Cooper5/13/08

A Rock’s Life

Hello there! I’m Rockster Rockums, but you can call me Rocky. I had a long life that was worth living, and this is my story.I first started out as magma deep down in the Earth’s mantle near Alaska. A volcano erupted in the Aleutian Islands and my part of the magma got out on to the Earths surface. That’s when I cooled into an igneous rock. I was happy not being magma after five hundred years of intense heat. After I came out of the volcano, I didn’t have my family with me which was the worst part; although,I made loads of friends. They told me it is normal not to have your family with you. I was still a little disappointed not having them there for me.I was finally a teenage rock. This is the time when all my new friends pressured me into the lithosphere. The heat changed me into a metamorphic rock. Being a metamorphic rock was the best time in my life. I had a girlfriend, Michelle, and I was the rock everybody wanted to be. Then, my life turned upside down and it all happened when Michelle broke my heart.I crumpled into little pieces and was rolling at the bottom of the Nile River. (Michelle and I moved here to Egypt when we started dating.) When I was acting all depressed I got stuck with guy named Joey. We later became best friends because we were cemented and compacted together for so long. I was a sedimentary rock for most of me lifetime. The weird thing is Joey just got over a bad break up, too.Joey and I live to be 600,000 years old. We knew they day would come when we had to die again. On the brightside, our kids were going to be born and our names will live on forever

Mi Vida 

Hello. My name is Mac. You know, as in the computer? Yeah, my dad was a geek. He had a job as a paper holder in an office and he loved to look at the computers and see how they worked. Anyway, I am now an adult metamorphic rock with small traces of crystals. Some mining crew dug up my family and just left us there. My dad, being gold, became a big-time expensive paperweight and my mom was a light-built chunk of silver.  Oh yeah, I have one younger sibling, a pebble, her name is Samantha and she is just like my mom; she is silver. I still don’t know how I became an outcast being schist.

Yeah well, back to my life. I haven’t always been metamorphic you know, as a young child, I was raised in a volcano and no one really cared about me since everyone was magma. I went to school at a local public school and was picked on for my size. On my ninth birthday, the volcano erupted and it sent me and my family soaring through the air to find ourselves on the ground where we sat for hundreds of years watching tourists walk by. Until one, unfortunate day when a road paving company ran my family over with a steamroller, and turned us all into sediments. Years later, we were finally packed into sedimentary rocks.

As a family of hard dirt, we didn’t really have much to do. We just sort of sat there until the day of the sinkhole. Well, we where just minding our own business when all of a sudden, the ground just sunk into a huge hole bringing the road we where squished onto along with us. In an attempt to restore the so-called “beauty” of the road system, the same darn company who squished us, buried us and built a whole new road right above us. With all of this heat and pressure, I was turned into metamorphic rock and my parents, gold and silver.

At the time of my younger sisters birth, I was almost 8,000 years old. A typical teenager. While my parents were old and grey, being worn and dirty. (Rocks don’t shower you know.) When I turned 8,050 my parents where thrown back into a volcano, and I was alone. My sister had been picked up to be put on a necklace.

About 100 years later I met a nice piece of basalt named Sally. We got married and had three kids: Bobby, John, and Michael. We live in a really cool rock museum in downtown Manhattan. We are very happy where we are and don’t plan moving anytime soon. 

Rock Cycle Life- Stuart5/14/08Expository

Rock Cycle Life 

Hello people, my name is Ron Stone. I was first born in my mother, the volcano. After a whole nine years later, my mother erupted me out of her belly. I started my childhood out at the island of Hawaii and then I started to roll around to other places. My childhood was pretty slow, but after I started growing, I knew hitting the next stage of life was going to be better.When I first hit the stage of igneous, I was going through puberty. Those days were some of best of my life. After my development stage, I had made some new rock buddies who I would always hang out with. Then a couple of years later, my rock friends and I gathered up and made a rock band; every night we would be rocking it out and the whole island heard it. Later on in life, I was finally finishing up school and going to graduate from Rock school.I had finally graduated; I got my diploma and turned into a sedimentary rock. After that, I went to college and it was pretty complicated. College was very difficult. I couldn’t finish it, so I dropped out. When I dropped out, I felt that I needed to cry out sand or something, but after that I went on with life and found myself a beautiful woman. We lived together for a couple of years and got married. That day was the best because I finally found a lady to live with. Later on in life, we had two kids and a nice wood house. I had found a good job at Burger Rock and that job made me good money.After working a good hundred years at Burger Rock, I had retired from there and turned into a metamorphic rock. Being retired is great because I don’t have to work any more and I can finally be with my family. When I was working my rock had a rock so that I had grand rocks now and I was so proud of them. Way later on life, I had live to be 4,000 years old.It had finally had happened to me, I had died. This geologist came and picked me up and started to study me. He just took me away from my family and when he was done studying me, he threw me in to the ocean. While I was tumbling down the ocean, all these sediments started to cover me and I had gotten buried. I had one of the best rock lifes ever.

Nilson Mixsooke5-6-08Writing

My Life as a Rock 

Ms. Brown My name is Ramone and this is my life. I started out as a wee metamorphic rock in the surface of the earth. Well I lived in the middle of North Carolina really. I didn’t always fit in because I was striped, back in the day. It was pretty sad, my only friend was Brickston, he was the only other “Half Breed” as they called us, besides me. That all changed when I went to a school called Igneous Arts of Education.I went down past the earth’s lithosphere into the mantle. Those long years of changing were some of the best of my life. There, I was treated like everyone else, not an outcast or a reject. After some time I graduated and got ejected from a volcano along the ring of fire. Being an igneous rock was the best! I was finally out and on my own.My life was pretty good; I got to the island of Hawaii some how. I was a very shiny obsidian rock then. I made new friends; it was all good until some stinking little kid had to pick me up. It was pretty fun I guess, I got to see the world, that was nice. Well… one day the kid dropped me; seriously he dropped me like he didn’t care for me anymore. So I just laid there crumbling, until all these other sediments, along with me of course, got compacted together.I have no comment on being sandstone or a sedimentary rock. It was kind of fun, I was old, but it didn’t make any difference to me. I finally got to relax in the San Andreas Fault. It was kind of like I retired and went to a nice summer home. After a few hundred years of being protected I the earth’s crust there was this huge earthquake. It had to be the biggest I’ve seen, I got sucked down into the lithosphere and I changed into a metamorphic rock again! Now I am young, rejuvenated, and have more vigor.