7/20/17

 I'm just going to briefly update you on what we've done so far. After we left Welpinit, we drove for about an hour to Wal-Mart. I got to talk to my mom for quite a while which was really nice. And then I got to talk to my friend Aaron which isn't something I do very often anymore. That made me happy. Helped get me out of my rut, didn't need any coffee.

The driveway to this place is really crazy. SO bumpy. We got here and right away we had dinner. It was a feast. I still remember eating the fish and elk like it's in my hands.... I don't eat meat really because I don't think it's very ethical in the conventional circumstances but hunted and humanely raised can be eaten justifiably. So I sat with the salmon in my hands and in the moment, I was just so in love with the art of eating something that was caught in the wild. God created these things and they are natural and ... I really can't put my amazement into words.

Afterwards myself and Ms. Trease went swimming and we got out once a few of the others came. They left again but Christina and Jay stayed on the dock and I stayed with them and we made a contest about animals noises and other impersonations and I judged and Joel joined us and Judy did too. It was dark and we were heading back when Ms. Trease came to get us. The high schoolers have a curfew of 11 now which I wasn't very happy with at first because I like to stay up late with them but they went and sat down somewhere (It was 10) and I went to listen to the college people's stories. I came back around 10:45 and gave them both hugs and just bonded with them <3 They went to sleep at 11 and I did too and it felt good!

We got up this morning and came to the wellness center for showers and came back for breakfast and then we went to a Casino here in Coeur D'Alene and then we ate lunch on the docks and now we're back at the Wellness Center. It's really nice spending time with these guys and learning about things to prevent devastating natural disasters that we can expect to happen if we don't do anything. There's going to be a Pow Wow tomorrow night.