Well, last thursday began the coolest adventure I've probably been on, not including floating the Yukon. Last Thursday, I went to Nulato with a school mission trip. It was soooo cool! The people there were so kind and loving! I loved it! Thursday we took off at about ten thirty (i have about 100 pics just from the flight), and we got there at about noon, oneish. It was so cool because Nulato is, literally, on the bank of the Yukon River, so as soon as we see this huge river of white in the brown terrain, we knew we were getting close. What met us there was exactly opposite of what I imagined. I imagined the middle of nowhere, ice and snow surrounding us, shanty little townhouses. This was not so. There were trees and hills and cliffs and wooden little shacks where no one lived. We piled our things in the bus and off we went. Down through trees and over frozen creeks. Soon, we came to a deserted little ghost town. No one was out and about on that fine Thursday. We reached the school, the only modern looking building in the immediate area, at about 12:40. Our first mission was to take off our snow stuff and look for things to do. Victoria, Aly, Katie, Brianna, and myself got the glorious task of straightening the library (by straitening I mean putting tons of misplaced books in their right places, reorganizing the fiction and nonfiction and removing all the uncatalogued books.) We did this for I don't know how long. After awhile, Brianna, Sarah, and myself were sent off to do another job, stripping the paper off of bulletin boards and putting new 'spring' fabric up. It was fun. Tedious, but fun. Eventually we all slowly made our way to the gym. We sat around, played basketball, play elbow tag, everything. After dinner, we put on our first program. It was so cool! We did tons of skits and clowns, we really bonded with the kids. Then everyone left, rice krispie treat in hand of course. We sat around and talked about the day. We didn't get to bed until about 11 or 12... maybe it was 1... Anyway, the girls slept in the library and the guys slept who knows where.
We were roused the next morning at about 7, 7:30. Cereal and muffins made up our lunches. All through out that day too we just looked for random odd jobs we could do (the guys were building a shed btw). We had an assembly that day, it was basically a mini program for the school. Oh! and there were tons of guitars and a piano in the library! (we used the piano for a clown skit) then we set off to work for the rest of the day till dinner and another program. And after all that we went over to the Rec Center. It was in the populated part of town (kinda like our hillside). It was so fun hanging out with the teens and playing cards (I won a Dr.Pepper because I delt a four of a kind in five card draw). The girls moved chambers Friday night to the Preschool room. It was really cool, there were parachutes hanging from the wall and a fort type of thing with two levels. It was awesome. Saturday we had a fun day for the little kids. We had face painting and balloon animals in the gym and wordless book bracelets and Easter story stuff in the cafeteria. I was doing some face panting stuff, it was fun. I even got to pant the principle's face (he was a wolf). We also got to go to a sledding party. The hill was maybe a hundred yards from the school, actually it wasn't a hill, it was the bank of the Yukon and the base was the Yukon. After that, we did a program for the teens and I shared a little about me and how stupid humankind is compared to God. It was really nerve racking and I cried... a lot. We went to the Rec Center after cleaning the school. (It was cool because some teens came to the school just to help clean so we could go to the Rec Center). We did awesomeness. It was so heartbreaking to say goodbye. We sat in a circle in the middle of the gym until one that night. It wasn't till Sunday morning (6 on Sunday morning) that I realized I didn't get to say goodbye to the little kids. Josephine (her birthday was on Tuesday), Sierra, Megan, Tommy, Jay, the ones I can't think of right now, all of them were so precious. God Bless them.
All in all, an amazing trip. I can't wait to go back, I honestly didn't want to come home. I still don't. *sigh* Oh well. Love you guys! :)
-M
M word of the Post
Miracle- n. a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency; a highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment that brings very welcome consequences; an amazing product or achievement, or an outstanding example of something
ORIGIN: Middle English via Old French from Latin miraculum "object of wonder", from mirari "to wonder", from mirus "wonderful"
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