Field Trip!

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 hey everyone, 

 So the other day I took my first work trip! I have been looking forward to riding in a bush plane and it was awesome! 



Here's the plane we took, it seats around 7 people. I think it can seat more if needed but they tend to move the seats around to make room for all of the cargo. I'll be honest, I was a little nervous about being in such a small plane but the views were so amazing that I pretty quickly forgot all about it. 


Here's the inside of the plane! The inside has one longer row of seats and a shorter row. Behind the shortest row is where they put boxes of mail and other things that are being delivered to the village. 







The flight was only about half an hour and as I mentioned already it was beautiful! 

The village that we were visiting was very quaint and sweet. It was inland from Kotzebue so a little bit chillier than I was expecting but nothing too cold. The village is located just off of a river and so it's very marshy. I'm guessing that's why the whole town is basically on stilts. There aren't roadways through the town, there's this boardwalk-y type path that goes all over. It looks like this: 




There aren't any cars either, just boats and 4-wheelers! Once we got there we met the clinic staff and put all of your stuff away and then we headed out to meet the villagers! "Eskimo" is considered an offensive term. I call them people in the villages, natives, or native alaskans. 



All in all it was an awesome trip. I traveled with one of my co-workers and I really enjoyed getting to know her. I felt like we made a good team too. She was really great at engaging people and initiating conversation which is something I feel like I'm not so good at. I can't wait for the next one! 




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