Everyday life in Alaska

Every day I get out of my sealskin sleeping bag and put on my rabbit fur under coat and my moose skin coat. Then I put on my bearskin pants and put on my snowshoes. Then I get my birch bark homework and ride my moose to school. My school is a one-room igloo with a huge wood stove to keep us warm. My teacher writes on a large stone with a piece of burnt wood from the fire. We sit on stones and do our class work on the large birch bark that we gather all summer when we have sun and when we only have 6 to 10 ft. of snow (this happens only one month every 60 years, so we must gather a lot of birch bark). We canπt do it in the winter because the trees are covered up by snow. Then once the day is done I ride my moose back home. Now it isn't all that easy riding a moose in pitch black. We have no sun for 720 full months. I was lucky though and was able to dog sled all the way to a "civilized" village and use an e Mac to create this page for all the world.

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