Fall Break



Last weekend was Fall Break. The school had a fall break trip planned for the four day weekend to Browning, Montana. Browning is a reservation for the Blackfeet Indian tribe. The tribe has a large alcohol problem. The point of us to go there was to work in De La Salle school with the children. I worked with the eighth grade class which had about eleven students in it (the school went from fourth grade to eighth and only had about 65 students in it). We were present in the classes to show the children that theres hope in carrying on with your education. We learned a lot about the Blackfeet tribe from the experience from speakers and interacting with the kids. I even learned how to say a couple things in Blackfeet, which is pretty cool. We stayed at "the Mission" which is where Brother Paul and Brother Ray live. The property used to be where they had a boarding school for Indians where the whites would deindianize them. Now the remains of the burned down dorm building are still there, but it is now just where the people who run the school live. There was also a church on the property from the time they had the school, which was very cool to see. Behind our bunhouse was a cemetary mainly full of indian children and babies that had died. The cemetary was sad to see, most of the graves were so old that you couldnt tell that they were graves anymore. Also, on the one thousand acre property there was a river which we spent a lot of time exploring. On the second night there we heard mysterious drumming that would get close then really far then at one point it was right outside our window. We were terrified. The next day one of the spiritual leader had come to speak to us and we told him of our experience, he blessed the house at the four corners and we all slept amazing that night. On the last day we went to Glacier National Park. That place is beautiful. We climbed the waterfalls and took hundreds of pictures, it was just amazing. In all, I am so glad that I went on the fall break trip, the people that I met, the experiences that I had, it was great.