The first night of the
exchange, I’m pretty excited to meet new people and be back in the village. I’m
ready to get back on the ice and tryout ice fishing and learning about the
Yup’ik culture and maybe the language. I’m also curious how they get water
nowadays and compare it to when and how they did it way before. The biggest
thing I have admired from today was the enthusiastic vibe of the kids and
people, for an example. The kids kept waving and smiling at us and if they
weren’t too shy they would welcome us to Napakiak. I really like how welcoming
everyone is and the vibe in general, all the teachers are really nice and
gentle. Walking around town and just enjoying the kind of cold weather and
seeing the smoked fish either in the smoke houses or drying in a shed. The ice
is everywhere, little kids riding four-wheelers to get to other places and then
the nice flat cold tundra. Napakiak really brings me back to when I lived in
Point Hope Ak, cold, icy, tundra everywhere and the people that look like me.
So far, I’m not really uncomfortable or nervous about anything because just
from having a good vibe all around.
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