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Hello, I've been reading posts on this site for months, and just realized that I have never posted anything, or introduced myself. I'm 21 y/o living in Alaska, I work full time (non-EMS) and am taking an EMT-B class thru the local college on the weekends. I eventually want to be a paramedic, so I'm starting with EMT-B.

I take my cert test in a little over a month, and I'm sure I'll be posting on here more often in the next few weeks trying to prepare.

Thanks in advance!
 
Good luck with school and your test. Welcome to a great site for EMS!!
 
Welcome to the weirdest little corner of the web, and study study study! Good luck to ya!!
 
Welcome!:) ! you will learn some much and laugh pretty hard at times! :P
 
Thanks for all the welcomes :P



btw, Airwaygoddess, I love your name!
 
Good luck with your test and welcome!
 
Welcome!

We are a fun group.... feel free to post about ANYTHING EMS.... any questions, vents, rants, etc...

We will all try to help.
 
Welcome to the gang! Now could you please send about 5 months worth of cold Alaskan air here so I can have my snow filled winter!
 
Well, its about -10 here, and tonight its supposed to be -50 with the windchill, so I highly doubt you want 5 months of that;) !
 
I really don't mind the cold, so feel free to send some this way!
 
I dont mind the cold either. Its the icy roads and cars not starting that I hate.
 
Welcome and good luck with the testing.
 
Hey gal!! thanks :) Boy it sounds too darn cold for my blood!:)
 
It's generally not bad, just gotta remember to dress in layers. Right now its only -4, not that bad.

Today at work (I work full time at a plumbing supply store) I'm wearing little ballerina flats, and just THINKING of going out to start the car I'm driving (mine has autostart, but its in the shop) makes my feet freeze. But Halleluja for autostart and heated seats!

I get MY car back today after work!
 
Hey Lipglossed! Welcome! Is it true that in Alaska ya'll have several months of daylight and several months of darkness? How is the EMS up there? Glad you are here!!! Good luck with that test!
 
Hey Lipglossed! Welcome! Is it true that in Alaska ya'll have several months of daylight and several months of darkness? How is the EMS up there? Glad you are here!!! Good luck with that test!

No, that is NOT true. A lot of stereotypes about Alaska are false. Let me clear up the majority of the ones I get asked:

December 21 is the shortest day of the year, with only about 3 hours of sunlight. We then gain about 6 minutes each day until July 21, when we have about 21 hours of sunlight. Then we lose about 6 minutes until Dec 21 and the cycle continues.

We do NOT use dog sleds as our means of transportation. I drive an 01 Hyundai Sonata, my boyfriend drives an 04 Toyota Tacoma. Ambulances and Fire trucks are just like everywhere else.

Moose and polar bears are not our pets. We don't even have polar bears in the interior.

We do not live in igloos, nor do we all live in cabins scattered every few miles. I live in North Pole (yes, all the light poles and fire hydrants are red and white, and we do have a 40 ft Santa statue right next to a gift shop called Santa Clauses house), about 10 miles from Fairbanks, the second largest city in Alaska, with a combined population of 34,007 (as of the year 2000) and almost 26,000 are caucasion (so no, we aren't all Eskimos [I'm white], no one even calls them Eskimos, they are "Natives").

We have a military base on either side of us. An Air Force base, and an Army Post. Each has a population of about 7,000, but a lot of the Army guys are deployed right now.

It is not -60 for 6 months either. As in my previous posts, it stays around -10 to -20 for most of the winter, but for 1 week in January, it plummets to -45 or -50. And we dont all wear Carharts and parkas all the time either. We do have a Sears, and we have 2 Fred Meyer/Kroger. We have 3 Safeways, we have a Gottschalks (used to be LaMonts).


I hope you enjoyed my history/geography lesson :P , any other questions feel free to message me. And yes, I get those questions a lot.
 
Girl, you are funny! By the way, Happy turkey day! :) :)
 
Happy gooble day to you too! ^_^

I figured I'd just throw out the misconceptions about Alaska, before someone else asks :P
 
So are you enjoying a few days off from school and eek! studying!:)
 
Yes I am! But I'm kinda bummed I don't have class this week, I really enjoy it.

And if you guys were wondering, here is the 40' Santa:

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and The Santa Clause House gift shop:

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