Traveling with Ellen

Yesterday, I took the bus down to Seward with my new friend.  It was the guided tour bus where the woman or man talks most of the time.  I discovered that I really like traveling in Alaska that way because of two reasons:  1.  I am an auditory learner and when they talk, I listen and learn; 2. we are traveling one of the dangerous highways  and frankly,  I don't particularly want to drive.  It was about a 2 1/2 to 3 hour drive.  I must be getting old!  Oh well....so here's goes the geriatric traveling with Ellen. Hey, maybe I should change my blog name!  lol I heard the Captain Cook story and Turnagain Arm many times and many different versions.  Eh, its just an ok story.  We drove by Potter Marsh which is the place to go birdwatching and where I picked Eleanor up at.  Actually, what happened was I had questions and she was photographing birds and she answered my questions, so we walked together for about 45 minutes talking birds and a little bit about ourselves. Early in

This has been the longest and toughest week for me up here.  First of all, I am working with this 29 pregnant girl who has been the princess all her life.  She has two assistants who do everything in their classroom while the teacher takes long breaks, does some paperwork, little planning and searches baby websites.  I am supposed to be her assistant this week and next week I become the lead for the last 3 weeks of summer school.  It has challenged both my patience, my professionalism, and my New York mouth!  I have held tight but there was one day that I thought we might have a cat fight.  Actually, I was going to ask her about her training and who in her training said she could delegate all the work out.  This week is also challenging because I have longer hours and my hip has been hurting badly.  But I know my hip feels the stresses in my life before any other part of my body. Today, my lead teacher was supposed to have the class in the multipurpose room but she got mad at them an