On August 12, I went down to St. Mary's with my cousins David Andrew, Nick Fitka Jr. (Long), and Ray Alstrom Jr. The first night we got there we only went to the store and hung out for awhile. Then I went home until the square dance started at the community hall. My friends and I hung out there and watched people be square. The dance quit at 1:00 A.M. After the dance quit, my friends and I walked and talked and laughed and couldn't wait until Friday night for the teen dance. Later on that morning we all went home to get some rest for the next night.

On Friday morning Long woke me up. He came in and bothered me while I was having a good dream. Then we all got washed up and went to the store to have breakfast. After that we walked up and down the hills around St. Mary's all day. Finally, evening came and the square dance began. We stayed there and hung out until the teen dance started. When we heard that the teen dance had begun we walked down to the Townsite Hall and hung out. People were just starting to show up there, so the beginning was sort of boring. While we were waiting for people to show up, I bumped into a bunch of people I had known at Mt. Edgecumbe and friends I had met at either volleyball or basketball games or at the Bilingual Conference. When almost everyone had arrived we went in and danced. It felt cool to dance because we hadn't had a dance in a couple of months here in Marshall.

After the dance quit at 3:00 A.M., everyone gathered around the dance hall and chatted. We finally left the dance hall at around 4:45 A.M. and walked up town. I went home around 5:30 A.M. While we were walking up we bumped into a huge dog. We took off running. One of us jumped on the back of a truck. My other friend took off down the road, and I ran any old direction and bumped into the dog again. When I took off running again the dog didn't follow me; it just walked away. Then I said good night and went in to sleep.

The next morning I got up and went to the store again where I hung out and talked and waited for my other friends to come around. Not very long afterward they swung by. I hung around with them, and we went back and forth to the stores. Then we waited until the square dance started and hung out there until the teen dance got more exciting. Then we went down and danced the night away, since it was the last night for both dances and we knew we probably wouldn't have another teen dance in a long time.

The next morning we got ready to go home. After we got all of our passengers together and bought the gas, we took off for home. We all enjoyed ourselves so much at the dance we wished we could have stayed another night there.

By: Kimberly Fitka