My summer was alright, but went by too fast. It was also really hot, and the worst thing about my summer was that I got a little bit too black. I got the sun block a little bit too late.

My job this summer sucked! I was working with the Marshall Traditional Council S.Y.E.T.P. cutting tree's, picking up trash, and worst of all, painting the playground (but I didn't pick out the color.) The worst thing about painting was that I got lots of paint in my hair. I really wanted to quit, but I needed the cash and my mom wanted me to stick with it. So I did. Sad but true.

I went home to Emmonak on the 2nd of July and had lots of fun down there for two days. I went to the basketball games and it felt really freaky going to ball games in summer. It was really hot in the gym and there were lots of irritating bugs in there. On the 4th of July my dad's band got invited to come up here to fiddle. The happiest part about coming up to Marshall was that my cousin Kim had a chance to come too for the first time.

The first night here we girls slept in my dad's boat. Boy, it was really cold that night.But the next afternoon when we got up it was really HOT! We stayed up here for a couple of days, then I went home with my parents. I stayed down at Emmonak for a couple of weeks to spend time with my parents. I had lots of fun while I was there, like being really mischief and running away from the cops. My sister Sophie Ann and I would go home sometimes at five or six in the morning, sleep in all day and do the same the next night.

When I came back here to Marshall I got busted too many times for curfew violation, and I had to go to court over the phone. As a punishment they reduced curfew hours from two to one o'clock and from one o'clock to twelve!

Lois Moore