There are a couple of quotes that I must share with you.
Me: What is that?
Maurice: My candy.
Me: Where did you get that?
Maurice: On the ground (pointing to the floor of the bus).
Cetan to me while pointing to Crazy Horse: That’s my uncle. He’s dead though.
Garfield (the teacher) to gatekeeper at Crazy Horse: We got about 25 Indians, 1 Mexican, and 1 white girl.
Garfield to me: Are you sure you don’t have any Indian in you?
Me: Yeah I’m sure. I’m as white as they get.
Maurice (looking out the window as we entered the Black Hills): Geeze that’s a big hill.
Over all I had a wonderful trip with my students. It was beautiful to see how some of the parents/aunties/uncles interacted with the kids. We went to Crazy Horse in the morning, had pizza at a park in Hot Springs, and then we went to Evan’s Plunge an indoor water park over a natural hot spring. At Crazy Horse it was fun to see the kids run around and look at the mountain. The park was located along a beautiful stream. It was great to see the kids play and have fun. At Evan’s Plunge I saw some really beautiful things. An uncle of one of the boys took him in the deep end and tried to teach him how to swim. A dad was playing with his son on one of the inner tubes. I loved seeing parents/uncles spending quality time with their child. I don’t get to see this very much in the community. Unfortunately I saw some things that disappointed me. One little girl got hurt twice. Her mother didn’t come to her rescue either time. A couple of the parents left their children in the kiddie area at the pool and went off and had their own fun in the water.
It was so much fun to spend time with my kids in an area where I wasn’t forcing them to learn math or reading. I didn’t have to worry about what the needed to get done for the day, we could just have fun. And we did have fun. On the bus ride home, Maurice, and I fell asleep next to each other.
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