I have no idea what that title means. I was just thinking about the time difference here in Alaska and tried for some word play. I don’t think it worked. But then again, word play never works, cause play and work are opposites (I could use your philosophical explanation of work vs. play here, Justin). Unless of course, you work with youth, in which case they often collide in mass chaos!
Fun Alaska fact of the day – almost all of Alaska is on one time zone, even though it is wide enough to span across 5! Alaska time is an hour behind Pacific, 3 hours behind Central (not 6, Mom…). It’s not exactly like I am on the other side of the world, but sometimes it feels like it. College Football starts at 7 am. National debates happen in the middle of the afternoon. And it is really hard to stay in touch with people who are going to sleep when I get off work. It is “tomorrow” for most of you right now (whoa!). When you look at the map, Alaska is just kind of out there, pretty isolated from the rest of the country. The culture here really feels like that sometimes too.
Before I took the job up here, one of the things they told me is that the staff is like a family, because most of them live so far away from family. I am finding that to be true. It has been 5 months (to the day) since I have seen family (or friends from Texas) – by far the longest I have ever gone. It is kind of hard sometimes, but the staff has really embraced me up here. The young adult community at Trinity is amazing as well, and I have made some pretty good friends in my short time up here so far.
I am excited though about visiting back “home home” for Thanksgiving. Sometimes I just have to kind of pinch myself and go, “Whoa! I live in Alaska now!” It’s cool. But different.
And so I enter month 6 of life in Alaska. How will it stay the same? How will it be different? (and now the title kind of makes sense…) Peace, friends.
