The views in a two person air plane flying over Alaska are breath taking and I hope that more people get to experience the mountains between the tiny villages. Starting the day off at 3:00 am was less than ideal. However, the adrenaline of where my day would end kept me going. To start my morning I was trying to layer and ripped my jeans. Bummer. Heading to the airport we got a little bit of a late start and were in a pinch. When we got on the plane I had butterflies in my stomach about what would happen throughout the day. When we got to the Bethel airport I was shocked that it was so little. However, then we went to Raven the smaller airport that would fly us to the villages and I was shocked. It was so dirty and unprofessional. It made me nervous because it was so different than any airport I had ever been to. We got all checked in and were waiting for the pilot to call our names. He called Kasandra and me up. Rita our preceptor came up with us because she thought it was a mistake that her name was not called. However, it was not, Kasandra and I would be traveling to the village alone in a two person airplane. When I saw the airplane that we were riding on I got extremely nervous. It was tiny and the pilot looked like he was around our age. It was just very different than flying out of the Minneapolis airport. When we were flying over the beautiful mountains all of my worries escaped my head. When we landed in Good News Bay there was a building next to the run way and thats it. We had to wait outside with our bags for the janitor of the school to come pick us up. It was so cold and windy. When we got to the school we were welcomed by the principal. When Rita got to the school we got straight to work. We did 45 vision and hearing screenings in 3 hours. We started with the younger kids, I was doing the hearing screenings and it was very hard to communicate with them. They would hear the noise but they wouldn't tell me that they could hear it. Some of the kids were very nervous around me and would ask me why I was there. At the end of the day I was so exhausted and ready for bed. I was excited about the days to come. I knew that I would be able to connect with the kids on deeper levels throughout my stay.
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