Wow, I had no idea it was going to be so sunny here! I thought Alaska was supposed to be cold.
Well, it is pretty cold for much of the year. But during the summer, it's just as warm as it is in states like Washington and Oregon.
Interesting. The days are really long right now. I don't think the sun has been down for more than a few hours the whole time I've been here.
Yeah, that's another interesting thing about the summers here. We're so far north that we're exposed to the sun for almost the entire day. In winter, the opposite is true.
You mean it's dark the whole time?
Well, not the whole time... but maybe for two-thirds of every day from December to February.
Whoa! How do you make it through every year? As a California native, I wouldn't be able to handle that for more than one season!
I guess I'm used to it. When I was a kid, it was pretty fun to play with flashlights and have campfires outside in the afternoon. I never noticed that life was worse because it was always dark.