My summer vacation was fun but went by very fast. This past summer I did a variety of different things. I started my summer by living somewhere else. At the end of the school year I moved down to Mountain Village till early July. While I was there I experienced a lot of things. I saw how it was to live without parents and the ones you need. At times I felt so helpless because it's hard living without someone supporting you with the things you need in daily life.

While I was there I commercial fished with Larry Hunter and Nick Fitka Jr. And on my free time I walked around, went to St. Mary's to shop, had Eskimo dance practice, rode around, and just hung out with my friends. I couldn't bear going without Eskimo dancing so I had practices with the Mtn. Village high school Yupik dancers.

It was nice to leave Marshall for a while. Everything is a lot different in Mtn. Village than it is here. The reason for this is because Mountain Village has more people, and so they have more problems. Because of this they have a community policy that is more strict. For example, a $50.00 fine without warning for curfew violation if you are under the age of 18. And the amount moves $50.00 more every time you get busted. But then I got used to the law and it wasn't a problem.

While I was living there I stayed at Nanette Myre and John Wilde's house. I stayed at my grandpa's house for a while but his old age bored me. Just old age I think! Where I was staying sometimes made me feel creepy because strange things would occur without anyone touching them. One time when I was ready for bed I turned off my small mini electric heater in my room and right before I closed my eyes the heater went back on. Right when that occurred I turned to see the pointer moving up to high all by itself. By then I knew what was happening because many other strange things had happened before that incident, and I wasn't afraid. I practically got used to most of the weird things that happened.

When I first moved there I really wasn't sure if it would be a good place for me or not because you never can judge what might happen or how things could turn out. There is a big difference in the way people act there than here. As you get into smaller rural communities people have more respect than in bigger communities. There it was like noone cared what they did.

Jackie Paul George