Thoughts from Trinity County

MEDICINE MOON

The Medicine Moon dances to his lips,

A hand to the mouth,

And it begins to sit,

And wait.

My insides fade as I think,

What emotions,

What pain,

Does this big moon hide?

Created by hands,

Changing something from what it’s not,

The pain inside me,

Makes my heart begin to rot.

As it is swallowed,

With utmost obedience,

The Medicine Moon stirs.

An orange container,

Signals a new day,

And as this moon begins to fade,

A door is opened,

And a new Medicine Moon follows.

~ Ella

 

Today was the 4^th day in the  8^th grade trip. We went on a community service project  and swam in the river. We also hiked to the Trinity Alp wilderness were we swam in the freezing cold river and jumped off of rocks. While walking alone and speaking to one of my classmates I re-learned to never take things for granted and to experience things that are in the present and to take it in because you never know if it will change. My perspective has changed in many ways which will help me in the future.

                     

~  Enyolli

The best parts of this trip in northern California are the funny moments. The moment when you hear “I cant find my pants.” Or when Lucas tries to slurp up all the jell-o on his plate in one slurp. On the kayak trip me and Emmanuel called the kelp in the ocean “ocotpus’s” and started screaming. When I saw Joe and Lucas’s skit of magic at night time it made my day the next three days. In the river cleaning today we were cleaning in the river me and Drew got completely soaked and started swimming when the first plan was to stay dray and not get wet. So much for that. In the cabins when me and Emmanuel were killing every spider in sight and shouting “HYPER-FUSE” . When everybody gets waaaaaaaay to competitive about shuffleboard and we all start screaming. And of course staying up late and shouting and screaming and having a good time in our cabins.

~ Isam

Sooooooo, we first went to Mendocino and the cabin’s where SCARRRYYY. It had lots of bugs, mainly spiders… Very big spiders, I mean Spiderman sized spiders. Isam was my cabin mate and I knew that I wouldn’t be able to sleep knowing there was spiders around me. Sooooo, Isam and I killed the man sized spiders with shoes and bug repellent. We also went kayaking and Isam was my partner again. We were fastest people there we were even faster then Natalia and Eva. Then we took a 6 hour drive all up to a very nice place called Trinity Alps, it was worth the bad cabins. My cabin is Joe, Drew, and Octavio. Today we went to cleaned up a river in the wilderness and after we went swimming, but I didn’t get to go swimming because I hurt myself before. Everyone was diving off a rock. And now I’m here sitting in the kitchen blogging for Todd because he made me. But also some good news was that THE HEAT WON.

~ Emmanuel

Today is Wednesday. The week has gone by so fast, every second I spent with the class of 2013 has been here and gone in an instant. Today we went on a long hike to a swimming hole in the river, and it was freezing. The day was so hot I felt like my face would melt off, but that soon changed when I jumped off the rock into the freezing water. From splashing my classmates to being terrified of the drop to the water from the jumping rock this day has been fun. Overall I’m exhausted and ready to sleep. Tomorrow will be a big day, we will be river rafting for 4 hours, I better get that rest.

~ Eva

Every single time I jumped off a rock into the water hole, it reminded me of time passing. Every time I jumped, I didn’t know if I would hit the bottom.

Anyways, I feel like this trip is just going to be over in an instant and I really wish I could go back to yesterday or just keep time still JUST FOR ONE SECOND.

Anytime I hear a scream or a laugh from one of my classmates I can’t help but feel sad because I will never see these crazy, silly people together again after we graduate. The food is really good here.

~ Ella

Today we went to  Hayfork and did some volunteer work cleaning up a river. The TEACHERS didn’t tell us we’d be wading through a TEN foot high river so I didn’t bring shorts or a bathing suit so I went in my jeans….. I GOT SOAKED!!!!

Then we squashed back to the car and had a wet car ride back to the Hayfork Watershed Defense Council center and ate a good lunch that they threw for us as a thank you. I made a peanut butter jelly sandwich and had a snack bag filed with goodies. Sara copied my snack bag. (My snack bag was bigger) After everyone got back to camp we had about forty minutes to get ready for swimming in a waterhole. At least THIS time they Told us what we were going to do. So are group piled back into the vans and had a short drive to the beginning of the trail to the water hole. YAY three miles of walking.

~ Zeke