Actually, during our stay and work, I took pictures on a disposable camera, so I don’t have that many to show. I still need to get them from other people and maybe scan some in.
We were split up into groups, and each group had a different job cycle. Our group was to do house painting for the first two days.
On the first day, my group got all our supplies and went to a two story house, and painted it gray with brown trim. The ladders were a little rickety, and the water tap kept spraying out before the actual spout, but it was all manageable.
There were some kids playing in the yard. They were playing with fireworks. I guess this was the 4th, so it’s not totally random. They’d be lighting firecrackers in their hands, priming them like grenades, and then throwing them so that they popped in midair. (I learned how to do this from them by watching, and tried it out myself later.) They had a few bottle rockets too, and were trying the same thing, lighting them, holding them, and then throwing them. Unfortunately, this didn’t work out as well.
It’s sort of interesting, the American Indians celebrating Independence Day, when they lost theirs to another people who gained it from another. Oh well. Party on.
That night we went to a Pow-Wow on the Reservation, and saw another homebrew fireworks show as well. It was pretty interesting. Seemed like the Pow-Wow was just a community gathering; there were announcements of individuals from each family, and they would go dance around the center circle. At one point, the announcer said anyone could go in, so some people and I went in for a short time.
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