What? What? WALRUS

Ahhhh, another step into the world of native living. 

Walrus meat, skin, blubber, sea peach, and cabbage

Today was the first day I got to try Walrus.  One of my native co-workers invited me over for dinner this evening where I tried Walrus meat, skin and blubber…and guess what?!  It’s GOOD!  I was very surprised at how good it actually tasted.  I prefer the meat over the skin and blubber, but it was all good.  I also tried a sea peach…not good :/

Language moment!  The Yup’ik name for Walrus skin is: Mung una and Yup’ik for walrus meat is: Kemikrak

Walrus blubber fermenting

Also I learned that people like to have Walrus blubber sit for awhile and ferments.  After a bit oils start to separate from the blubber.  When the blubber starts to get dry and smell, it is time to put into zip lock bags and put into the freezer. 

First ride on snowmachine!

Another fun thing about today?  I rode on my first snow machine!  Hurray!  I am excited, during spring break my co-worker and I are going to ride around on the snow machine and she is going to show me around the island…so excited for that :)

Last week we had a lot of snow again and the stupid drifts formed against my door, and so my lovely neighbor dug part of my pathway out so I could get into my apartment (since I was coming back late ☺ ) and I finished the rest of the way…sadly though…my hole I made last week got completely covered up…oh well…

Update on sunlight!  We have been having beautiful clear days as of late…and the sun and daylight is coming back!  The sun now starts to rise at about 10:30am…and sets at 5:30…hooray!!

This week has been a pretty good week, I started Tutoring and cheerleading…and this Saturday I test for my yellow belt in Karate…that’s right…Amber is becoming a Badass :D  After testing I will also get the chance to try other native foods :)  More pictures to come after that!  Hehe, am I lucky of what?!