Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 16:48

Hey Ms. Bell! It's Britany from your 2B class. I just wanted to tell you how amazing you are!! and that I miss you! a lot! But so do all the rest of your classes, I'm sure. I hope you are having the time of your life there! It really seems like a once in a lifetime opportunity. How's the weather, by the way? When you get inside the buildings, are all of them nice and heated so that you have to take all your millions of layers off? Well I'll talk to you later, hopefully!

Miss you bunches!!! : )    ~*Britany*~

Mindy Bell

Hi Britany and all the FALA students,I miss you guys bunches!   The buildings here are all heated which is both good and bad.  It is good because you don't want to wear "big red" inside, but since you are always wearing long underwear under your clothes, it is easy to get too hot when you are inside.  Sometimes I just want to hang out in my long johns!  But I haven't done it yet, I promise!
Outside, I think our warmest day has been 9 F which is -13 C.  I'm ready for something above freezing (32 F or 0 C) but I may never see it while I'm here!
One of the things that makes me stop feeling sorry for myself - besides the other 999 people here who seem to be thriving in the cold - is reading about the adventures of the early explorers here.  Think of how their equipment was so much worse than ours over 100 years ago - and they still had scientific and expeditionary goals that they met.  Amazing!
I'll be home soon!  Thanks for reading my journals!