All my life summer has meant finding all my winter clothes and getting in a tiny stinky plane to bounce through the air down the Alaska Peninsula to commercial fish salmon. This year was no different, it was just crammed between two crazy school years in Bosnia. Being out at fish camp after my year abroad it finally hit me what a unique and amazing opportunity it is to participate in one of the world's last wild salmon runs. It also made me realize what a wonderful and fulfilling lifestyle it is working so closely to the land. There is so much you can learn at school as I have realized , but this is a whole different way of learning, and struggle which I know much better. Now the salmon are turning dark shades of red and the days are getting shorter and soon I will travel back to the other side of the world and settle back into my other life. I will miss Alaska more than I would like to, I will miss the ocean, the snow, the mountains and the wild that surrounds me. But I am excited to return to school as a second year and work my butt off for classes and colleges, and see what else there is to come :)
