July 26, 2013

Today in Nespelem, Colville we woke up at 7 i believe and got ready and met with and elder at 9 am. The elders name was Barbara Aripa and she talked covered many different things like she talked about how the earth belongs to us and we must take of care of all the natural things on the land because the land takes care of us and mother nature is our land. Barb would trail off into many different topics but another one was she talked about how in 1998 she was apart of a environmental project in Hanford and it was about how wind cycles through and can carry radio active particles and radiation which can cause cancer but not right away because as you know it takes 20 years to develop, so she talking about how when wind flows it can pick up radio active particles and when it flows it can bounce off the mountains and just cycles through so that is where the particles can travel and can hit people. Then she talked about how people would take more than needed like picking too much berries or taking too much salmon and how that can mess up the natural cycle of how or earth works because everything has a purpose and when that is messed up then it can effect the wildlife around it. Well now i am going to talk about when we met Rick Desautal, first he took us to the Fish Farm with Pacific Aquaculture and we got to go on a boat and look at trout, they had big trout and little trout, i got to feed the little trout. I didn't really listen to what he was saying or really take notes but i did enjoy looking at the trout especially the pretty blue ones and that is all i have to say about the fish stop. When we got back we had lunch and chilled for awhile and then we had got called down to the gym and Rick had brought some animal furs and a few skulls of the animals to compare and contrast, and we got to touch the furs and then we sat down as he talked about the animals and what they are, what they do and how they are different from other animals or overpower other animals. My personal favorite is the Black Bear because well my name is bear, anyway he talked about how bears are very smart and how bears do not hibernate they just sleep for a long time, other bears hibernate and are deep asleep but black bears just sleep for a long time, if you try bother a bear in hibernation you wont wake it up but if you bother a black bear it'll wake up. After he was done talking i started playing basketball with Eric, Chance, Terran and some other guy it was fun and then i helped setup chairs for a funeral then i kinda just chilled. The heritage students had finally awoken from their beautiful nap and started to get ready to prepare dinner and i got in the shower and took a very short shower and had eating a sloppy joe then we headed out to this site with rick and he talked to us about what we were going to be doing when we were howling at wolves. Then we headed up to a certain area and howled at the wolves in hopes that they would communicate back but sadly they did not. It was nice though, just the view was beautiful alone. When we all howled it made think of the movie stomp the yard, and the ride back.. oh my lanta i was wiped out! but when we got back i had macoroni and cheese and i passed out! that is all for yesterday.