Here are some pictures I took of St. Michaels AZ and St. Michael School (map provided from MapQuest). I'm teaching geometry this year, and I'm really enjoying being here. We'll see what happens when I actually start teaching...
Enjoy the pictures.

Lake Powell Pictures
The canyon right behind the trailers
I uploaded the pictures, but they're raw. I haven't even renamed them. These pictures are of a horse I passsed when I walked home, my Thanksgiving travels, and the first snowfall of the year. Update: Pictures deleted because I need room on this site. I'll have to redo the whole thing and just use selected pictures.)
Yá'át'ééh Keshmish!
And a Gingerbread house done by one of the students.
Walking in a winter wonderland. (Also pictures of Shiprock and the creche at the mission and a few rock formations south of here.)
Chaco Canyon. Strange place. Hard to get out of.

This is where I live.
This is what they look like when you're walking through the scrub in the hills.
This is a picture of the school. The elementary school and the convent can be seen in this picture. The high school is behind the buildings you see.
This is a picture of the gym, above the campus on a hill. There are graves around it, I guess of sisters who have died in the 100 years (almost) this school's been around.
Actually, after walking back to my trailer past here, there's a whole cemetary up the hill. Probably associated with the 100+ year history of the mission, and not just the convent and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.
Two pictures of the back road leading to school. It's a dirt road, but it runs beside a creekbed (now, after the rains--dunno if it will still be wet in a couple months) so there are trees shading it.

A view from my front door. Cattle and sheep and dogs roam untended.
The sheep.
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The aforementioned rain. I don't think you can tell it's raining from this picture, but it is. This is a view from my back door.
I love seeing the horses silhouetted against the sky on the hill above the trailers across from me. (I cropped out the trailer below it because it looks better. That grey vertical thing you see below the horses is the chimney of the trailer.)
St. Michael's mission, which gives the name to the town and the school. Mass is partly in Navajo
A neat picture of plant life I saw on my walk from school to home. Note the cacti in the center of the picture, hanging part way off the rock.
These are the two dogs which follow me around. The one in back we affectionately call "Stupid."
I took a tour of campus today and went through the convent. There's a gorgeous chapel in the convent. Here's the altar and lectern, as well as a statue of Blessed Kateri Takekwitha.
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