Blog Assignmet #2

The Anchorage school enrolment has rocketed this year. They expect it to grow more the next several months. They believe that families are moving from the bush because of lack of jobs, high fuel costs, and food bills. In one school they helped ease the transition by setting up separate lunch rooms where the rural kids can eat because the size of the school may be overwhelming. Anchorage school district is allowing 1.7 million to hire 18 more teachers to accommodate for the burst of new students. Schools in Fairbanks also report a similar growth.

I think the high fuel prices are going up and driving people out of their homes in the bush. I know a few families that have decided to move to Anchorage because it is just to expensive to live out here. This year alone there is a huge decrease in the amount of high schoolers, many of them went to Mt. Edgecumbe to get a "better" education. I know that the school was budgeted for 65 students but we only have like 45, something like that.

My Picture

This picture is from the rafting trip. Here is my group, The fantastic 4. We were the smallest group, but not the weakest. We all met the first day, we were unsure of each other. I was disappointed at first because I wasn't in a group with my friends, not knowing that they would all be my friends in the end. In picture is shows, Brandon, Annie Mary, Mr. Parrish, and me. Austin was also in our group, just not pictured.
As we went down the river we all ended up getting nick names. Brandon turned into Pepsi, Annie Mary was PAM, Austin was White boy, and I was LBG. That was who we became, our nickames, No one called Brandon or Annie their names anymore they were Pepsi and PAM. Same with Austin and I, we were White boy and LBG. My group was pretty awesome.
One story that really stands out on our raft was the spider incident. I was rowing on our first day on the Aniak river when I saw a spider, I hate spiders. It crawled under the cooler, by that time everyone was laughing at me because I was telling Mr. Kuball to kill it! It was gone after a few minutes. After about 15 more minutes Austin said look a spider, he picked up the HUGE spider and threw it at me. I screamed so loud and almost jumped out of the raft. The whole raft thought that was funny but I was kind of irritated. Mr. Kuball gave me permission to whack Austin with a paddle, I did and accidentally left a bruise :D. Now that I look back at it it was pretty funny.
We had a great time on the raft trip this year. I learned a lot about new people, myself, and how to be a great leader. Even though I was sceptical about my group I learned that you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, you should get to know someone before you make assumptions you could learn a lot from someone.

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My Reaction

Government Wants Slower Ship Speeds to Aid Whales, That was the title of the Article I read. It talked about the endangered Right Whale, and how the Government thinks slower ship speeds on the east coast would help the population of these whales. I agree with the article when it says they should lower the ship speed limit, the right whale has only a population of 300-400 in the wild right now. Lowering the speed of ships on the east coast would also lower the amount of ships striking and killing the whales. They set a speed limit for Glacier Bay National park here in Alaska to protect Humpback whales so it wouldn't be the first. I really like the idea of setting a speed limit on the east coast, especially since the whales migrate through the busiest shipping ports. It's a small change that could make a big difference.

Here's the article if you want to read it.

http://www.adn.com/wildlife/story/520343.html

First Post.

Yay, My junior year of high school. Almost there. Lol. I'm not sure really what to write but this is my first blog entry for Publications class 08-09. Prettty Lame entry. Ill add more now. :D Although everyone who is reading this probably already knows who I am. My names Adrian Boelens, I'm 16 years old and live in Aniak Alaska, I love living here. My favorite things to do are camping, snowmachining, boating, Basically anything outside. There's lots more but I can't think of any Lol.