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In August of 2007, intrepid young adventurer Brigid Quinn relocated from sunny Seattle, Washington to a small town 12 miles outside of Bethel, Alaska to teach members of the Yup’ik tribe their third grade education. This young adventurer Quinn has a Master’s in Teaching and a Bachelor’s in Cultural Anthropology from that most venerable of institutions, The University of Washington. We have been receiving her dispatches all year. She is coming home soon for summer vacation and to commemorate we will be giving her some guest blogging duties, for now, here is a spotty year in review: An early dispatch from Quinn reads thusly, “I can promise you now, there will be a book and movie made out of this. Honestly, this is a dream come true, a perfect match between my undergrad in Cultural anthro, and teaching. It will be the hardest thing I have EVER done, and I am so scared I might shit my pants, however, being scared should not prevent me from doing anything. I will keep in touch, I will have no TV, or cell phone, i only hope to have internet so i can spent my free time e-mailing people. However, only 70% of the village has running water, so I will not get my hopes up. If you would like to know more about my travel, and give me something to do…other then watch the Northern lights and Polar bears trying to eat my cat (yes, I am bringing Millie the wonder cat), give me your address and I will write you letter. Off to the gold rush for the B rizzle!” And so it begins. Leave a Reply |
