This summer was a nice one for me. I enjoyed it mostly, but sometimes those days were just not the right ones. As the leaves and flowers bloomed, it was pretty exciting. And I also got excited later as the berries started to ripen. The salmon berries came first 6ut this year I didn't have a chance to go out and get any. But my mom got about a gallon of them. While the blue berries were just turning blue,I patiently waited until they were complely ripe and ready to pick.

When that day came, a couple of my friends and I went out to pick. This year was the first time I've ever seen such big blue berries. They were the size of store- bought berries. They really amazed me!. I picked and picked until I was tired of picking. This year, the blue berries were the most interesting fruit I've ever enjoyed eating. I couldn't believe the size and how many there were in a patch. A lot of people here in Marshall have been going out and getting as many berries as they can.

This summer, I had fun in Anchorage with the Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation Program. I went to Anchorage on the 31st of May and came back home on the 5th of June. The program was fun and interesting because I got a chance to learn how businesses were run and how they worked. I also met a whole bunch of people from all over the state. We all got in color groups that really made the program fun. My color was dark pink. There were about eighty to ninety people in the program. We stayed at the UAA dorms. The dorms were neat and comfortable to stay in. I had a roomate from Newtok, Alaska. Every morning we would get up at seven o'clock A.M. Our classes would start at eight o'clock A.M. Sometimes I would be lazy, but always on time. We would have to walk, about a half mile to get to our classes. We had sessions that were held in the auditorium UAA. Or sometimes we would have classes in the arena. Every student that attended the program would get one credit for college. That was cool! One thing I liked about the programs was the pizza and the dinners. But I hated the lunches! Every day we would have a sandwich, which I didn't tike at all. I3ut I would always eat my fruit, cookie and drink, whatever was available. We would have our breakfasts in our dorms, our lunches in the auditorium hallways and our dinners in the Cuddy Center. The Cuddy Center is where students eat their lunches and dinners.

I learned a tot about how businesses are run because many important people would come in and share their business experience. For example, a lady came in one day and shared her commercial business experience. She talked about how she put commercials on t.v. and movies. There were a lot of important people there who talked about their businesses and there were a lot of questions asked.

The most exciting part of the trip was the Crossroads of Continents exhibit at the Anchorage Museum. When we were there, we saw important and expensive crafts on display. The crafts were mostly from Siberia and Alaska. They were in the Anchorage Museum for two weeks.

I had a lot of fun this summer with a lot of interesting people.