LAST DAY

Today is the last day. we woke up and packed up and did inventory. we also ate breakfast again! it was good. We went to the wellness shelter to blog in which we are doing right now. if youre wondering about the pictures, I will be uploading a video at the end of the day. stay tuned. I will update this more for we still have the other part of the day

day 13

today is my last day sleeping in my tent with jay. my last dinner with them. the last time looking at the stars without worrying about social media, about drama, about anything. Although I miss my siblings I will really miss these new found friends. today we went to kimika butte to go hiking. I really love hiking. hiking I think is the most efficient way to lose weight while having fun for me. It works out the calf's and the abs at the same time. And if youre doing it properly then u have to move your arms. I also love hiking to look out at the view. the views are my favorite parts. I am not afraid of heights as much I used to be. I'm over a lot of my fears for right now. when we were hiking I was with my friend but she slowed down, I remained my pace and was the second one to the top. the first one to the top was Christy. third was Joel, but he has longer legs so. I then waited for jay to get to the top. Want long, we then took pictures and looked at the view. the view was nice but all I seen was fields and a couple houses, it was time to walk back down me and jay decided to run down. we finished 3 and 4 to the bottom. we then went to go shower at the wellness shelter. I really like it, they have everything. everything I like basically. me and jay were finally cleaned and looked nice. jay plucked my eyebrows. I was scared on how they turned out. but they turned out decent, at least its more tamed then last time. we the took an hour drive to watch the powwow. julymash, the biggest outdoor powwow in the north west! they really know white swan and we got mentioned a lot. there were a lot or" cheapose" (white people- Caucasian-). but I like they respected the culture of someone else and their own. we only got to stay for grand entry. which started at 7pm. we were going to leave exactly at seven but Jessica made a exception to wait until grand enter. I really wish we stayed to at least watch some traditional. I really miss dancing. I want to get back into it. we then left and had a 30 minute ride to camp, we ate Indian tacos and breakfast for dinner.

day 12

This day we woke up at 7 AM. we went to go shower at the wellness shelter. they have nice showers. we went back to camp to eat lunch. we then traveled to the casino which monaes grandpa owns. her uncle and uncle spoke to us about how were connected to the land and animals and we need to take care of the earth. we then went back to the wellness shelter and started t blog. that's it . I STILL DID NOT SEE ZAVIER !!!!!!!!!! I MISS HIM he reminds me so much of my siblings I miss them like crazy

day 11

Today is the day that we leave. I do not want to leave though! I had so much fun visiting with warren and his three little interns. Kyle, Ethan and Xzavier. If you're reading this sorry but Ethan was my favorite. Kyle was the one who talked the most and really answered our questions, but very secretive or something. I don't really expect him to tell all of us but that's fine because we barely met. Xzavier was the "to himself" one. He talked a little but not as much as Kyle. But I learned that they all play basketball and the run a lot. They're in XC, cross-country and Warren was their coach. I woke up packed my things, put down my tent and waited for a couple of hours. Iam very glad that Warren and all of them came to visit. when the guys first got here I was thinking "why are they here? Are the lost?". Nope not lost. today was a travel day so nothing really happened. When we got to the camping ground we ate at a feast for a ceremony. someone was getting a canoe so I got to experience that. I also never tried moss before, I know that Yakamas used to eat it but their is not a lot of suppliers/ gatherers to get them. For some weird reason I wanted to cry, I didn't though. I cherished the moment. after eating I met this little boy named Zander. Zander and I first met when I  was shooting basketball and he came up to me. He told me that his Yaya was in the bathroom so I walked with him. His mom came out and said "Oh you weirdo" to her son. Zander and I continued to play Monsters! until he had to leave. He is so adorable and nice. I cant wait to see him tomorrow!

DAY 10

Today we went to the fisheries hatcheries. This was more of a learning day. Tim Peone help start the factoriey with others. In 1980 The Roosevelt damn still had fish that weighed 78 pounds. Once the damns were built the damns were blocking fish but not killing fish. But he said some were killed by winding up in the trubines and getting scared. Spokane Tribal Hatchery is a project to help bring back sal,mon and fish or help other in between the Spokane tribe, Colville confederate tribes, Bonneville Power Administration and Washington department of wildlife. This year the Spokane fishing hatcherys want to release at lwast 75 thousand fish. When we visited the hatchery as a group I liked how they had a mural on the inside that included 21 fish. I tried to find all of them but I oculd not. As a group we walked through the factory. Inside there were long tub like containers that contained 6,000 baby fishes! The guy who was leading us fed the fish and the started to jump, for some reason it really relaxed me. Oddly satisfying. I forgot what day it was but Warren showed us a house pit. it got me mad/sad when there was a "R" on the front door. He said "now this you'll know how racism is still very alive. other than the fishing hatchery we went connoting! I've been waiting to do that for a while. me Lisa and sardonic went on and we were the last to leave but that's fine. we wanted to attack the other canoes by splashing them but htat backfired on us very quickly. Sedona who was in the middle of the of me and Lisa tipped the boat over! ugh I wasn't planning on getting wet. that was really fine though.

DAY 9!

It is day 9. Finally, today we had to wake up at 7 am. we went from waking up at 10 to 7 in a day. In this day we went to the river tchamicoke river. I know definite I spell that wrong. When we went there I had no idea on what we were doing. I did not know hat we were going to walk through the whole thing. After that we got jobs. Mine was to net the fish after someone shocks the fish. I didn't want to hurt the fish so I passed on being the shocker. Netting was fun, even though I got scared when a huge fish jumped up at me. But we had to take turns to be a shocker. It was finally my turn. Luckily I got saved by mike who was the one leading us, I knew we were doing a bad job, good thing he kept his cool and had patience with us. we went to this place where we had lunch and I didn't really eat anything because I was not hungry. I also really needed to go restroom. when we were almost don't with the job, then we found out we had to hike up a steep hill. it wasn't that bad. but most people were afraid of heights. Yikes, some were slow but people work at their own pace. we also went swimming.

day 7-day 8

Today is the last day at the Umatilla Indian reservation. I'm sort of sad that we are leaving her house because it reminded me of home. also her little daughter was so adorable. on the last day at her house we packed up, it did not take me that long to get ready but it took some 30 minutes. I got annoyed, well me and all the highschoolers because the other people were just sitting around or still making lunches and we were doing everything. After we got a new bus partners and mine was fun. It was probably the best because we all talker and we had good music. We stopped to get food and my Friend jay said I woke up looking all possessed. We could not stopped laughing about anything. Everything and anything was funny. we all just busted out laughing. I do not really know what to write so I'm combining Day 8. We finally arrived and me and my friend jay decided to not share a tent for this campground. It was fine I shared with Sidonia. It was fun. Then day 8 we relaxed. It was the most relaxing day of the trip so far. Jessica said we did not need to wake up until 10 am. I usually wake up late. But today I woke up at 5 am. Really? So I got up and sat at the table for awhile. Until I went back to bed. Then I woke up at 9am again from the heat. The heat was so hot. Well duh its the heat and the sun. I'm dumb sorry, even though schools far ways I'm still freaking out on next year because I lost some really close friends. That whole day anyway we just relaxed. This whole paragraph does not make sense, sorry. This is me signing off for right now. Later..