Day 2 (Dustin)

Dustin on the Andreafski River in front of St. Mary's.

The first day with students... I began in the computer lab while high school math students while they took some short practice tests for the upcoming SBAs. I’m looking forward to future days when I’ll be working more closely with the math students. In fact, tomorrow I get to teach a lesson on logarithmic equations to the Algebra II students who have already passed the High School Graduation Qualifying Exams.

During lunch, the science teacher offered me the opportunity to teach a little review lesson to his 8^th grade science students. The subject was basic “science math” and we did things like operations with scientific notation. Considering the tedious subject, the students were surprisingly engaged and about half of them were ready to shout out their answers for each problem!

After school, Giselle and I headed down to the AC convenience store and got some basic amenities: frozen pizza, zucchini, and a mango. Since St. Mary’s is so far removed any Alaskan cities, we were both surprised to see a selection of about 20 different fruits and vegetables. So, we took advantage and had a semi-fresh dinner.

To document our AC experience (Photo by Giselle)

--Dustin