Signs

There are bunches of signs on every corner here at Peter Pan Seafoods in Valdez, AK.  One of my favorite past-times is reading them because they are so ridiculous.

Here are some of my favorites:

No thanks, I would rather stand.

Same sign, different twist.

No thanks, I'm not hungry.

I like to imagine these are the lyrics to a rap or something. It flows.

This sign is here for a reason...but no one seems to obey it.  Crazy Phillipinos!

Seriously every time I go into the bathroom, someone has already hung up toilet paper on the stalls so people won't spy on them through the little crack in the stall.  

Guest visits SHOULD be approved, but they don't necessarily HAVE to. 

It's in quotes? Who said it????

I hate it when my internet "gows away".

It was a major shock to everyone when the internet all of a sudden didn't work anymore.

Sign reading: the best past-time in Valdez AK.

The Next Day

As seen in this blog post I said I write and record a new song every year.  Here is the 2012 song.  

I had the general idea for the song months ago, but I finally wrote it the day before going to the recording studio.  I'm satisfied with how it turned out considering I was the first person to ever record at "Catalyst Studios".  And I got a really good deal. (if anyone wants to record, I can hook you up.  Referrals baby!)

AK in the AK

Those are my initials, yo!
The second I arrived in Alaska, I had all these flashbacks of last summer.  It got me super excited for this summer.  I’ve been here for a little over a week and this is my experience so far.

Before I came here, I promised myself that I would not be lazy.  I wanted to run a few miles every day and limit the TV watching. So far I haven’t done either of those.  Actually I’ve done quite the opposite!  Last year, we walked to town (about 1 mile one way) almost every day.  This year, we’ve borrowed our Phillipinos brotha’s car to go to town all the time.  And I haven’t run at all because I’m always too tired after work haha.

I guess it runs in the family that we fail, and think it’s really funny.  My mom loves to tell the story of when she was playing kickball with her students and she tripped multiple times.  Well so far in Alaska, I’ve had a few fail moments here and it is the funniest thing to me.

#1 fail. Bikes around this place are free for the riding as long as they are not locked up.  Unfortunately the bikes without locks are really crappy.   So my second day here, we were going to town on some bikes.  I was pretty unlucky in my choosing of bikes because about 20 yards down the road the front wheel totally locked up.  I did a front flip over the bars.  It didn’t hurt and I was totally fine, but the worst part is that there were a ton of Phillipinos staring (they always stare).  I was very embarrassed and of course someone has to make a joke about it every single day.

#2 fail.  We were all killing some time by playing hacky-sack.  Long story short I went to kick it and landed straight on my back. So funny.

So far I've been ok in the AK (<---- rip off of someone else's old blog title)