Traxx

This weekend is wills birthday. he's having his party at Traxx, the indoor go-kart placa in mukaltio. Lots of people have peoples birthdays I've gone to have had their parties at Traxx. One time i carshed into the wall and got stuck under the wall. One of the guys who worked there was helping me get unstuck when somebody came along and crashed right into the back of my kart. The person who was getting my kart out of the wall got pinned between the kart and the wall, he scrunched up his face in pain. He helped me get going again the nlimped off. later I saw him, he didn't look so good. He was limping badly and he looked as though he was in alot of pain. I felt bad, although it wasn't really my fault. Anyway I hope his leg wasn't broken. Everything else was fun though.

Fun times in Seattle

Last wekend me and two of my friends went to see Cloverfield the movie, but instead we watched Juno. It was a really good. Before the movie we went to the Renton skate barn for the fourth time. It was really fun, we were really tired after when we went to the movie. The theater we went was Pacific Place in Seattle. We got to the mall early so we got some dinner. Then we went and played around on the escalator. It wasfun because we would run up the escalator that was going down. Then one time we were riding up and I jumped and was hanging on the cross beam over the escalader. My friends got knocked down behind me when i was hanging there and i fell down and we all rode up the escalader. Next we rode the elevator and right when it got to the top we would jump and bang our heads on the ceiling becuase the elevator launches you a little when you are at the top. Anyway the theater is really big so the seats dont go all the way up to the screen. So theres just a little open concrete plateform taht we layed on instead of the seats. But then our heads hurt cuz it was really hard. THE END.

Steven's Pass Park

Last weekend I went up tp STeven's Pass again. The snow was kinda hard and just a little icy. Although, by lunch enough people had ridden it so that the snow was all choped up and really good to ride on. My favorite part of thr day was in the park. Steven's Pass had put up more features to ride. One of my favorites was the up, flat, down, flat, down box. The box wansn't too hard to ride but it was hard to guess how muah speed I would need to make it over the top of the box. The box was about two feet away from the jump so you lose a lot of speed going up the side of the box.

Native American Myths and Stories

How the First People Were Made

One day, the Master of Life was looking at the world. It seemed that it needed something. He realized that what the world needed was people. So he built himself an oven. He got some clay he shaped into a form like himself and put it in to the oven to bake. Coyote came to watch, while the Master of Life was busy doing something else, coyote took the figure out of the oven. He shaped it into a dog shaped form like himself, then put it back in the oven to finish baking. A little while latter the Master of Life took out the figure, “I did not make this, it is coyote’s,” he said. So again he shaped the clay a put it in to bake. After it had been in the oven for only a short time Coyote yelled, “It’s burning, it’s burning!” But when the Master of Life took the pieces out of the oven they were not cooked enough. “Coyote you liar,” he said. The pieces were too white, so he sent them to a land across the sea. This time coyote yelled, “Leave them in!” When the Master of Life finally took the pieces out they where too dark. So he sent them to a land across the sea. This time the Master of Life didn’t listen to coyote’s advice and when he took out the people, they where a perfect golden brown. These were the first Pima Indians.

Climbing the Ladders of the Worlds

Before there was light in the world, people lived in the worlds under ground. There were four worlds, three underground. In the first world it became very crowded. The people could barely take one step without bumping into someone because it was also very dark. Elder Brother and Younger Brother, who were gods, saw this and decided to help them. They poked a hole in the roofs of all the underground worlds and threw a seed down. The seed grew and grew into a reed, big enough to climb to the second world. In the second world, it to became over crowded. It was still dark and the people became tired of it. So they took out the reed ladder and began to climb. In the third world it was still underground, but the people built houses and started families. The women took up rituals and danced. They would not stop dancing, the only time they would stop was to eat or sleep. So the men took out the reed ladder that they had kept very safe and started to climb, taking their ever dancing wives with them. They came out of a hole in the ground and into the fourth world that was above ground. It was different than the world today though because it was still dark. At this time, Coyote came up through the hole. Because Coyote is a thief, he was carrying a jar that he had stolen from one of the lower worlds. The jar contained all the stars, Coyote became interested and couldn’t help himself so he opened the jar just a tiny bit and all the stars shot out into the sky. It was brighter then, but not bright enough to see much by. The people made a shield of light, they gave it to a man and through him up in the air, he became the moon. Then they made another shield and through a man holding it into the sky, he became the sun. Now vulture came and shaped the mountains by flapping his wings. The world was now satisfactory to live in.

Coyote and the Earth Monster

One day Coyote was walking on a trail when he saw Mouse sitting on a branch. Mouse tells coyote about the Earth Monster. Coyote decides to rip up a tree so that if he were to come across the Monster, he could lodge its mouth so it couldn’t swallow him. Coyote keeps walking along with his tree over his shoulder. Coyote hears something crunch under his foot, he looks down, it is a bone. Then Coyote realizes he is in the Valley of the Dead. Now Coyote comes to an old woman, she is very hungry so coyote gives her some food. “Have you seen the Earth Monster?” he asks her. “It’s too late, it has already swallowed you!” she shouts. Coyote starts to see the moving bodies of the people the Earth Monster has swallowed. Everyone is very hungry so Coyote says, “look we are surrounded by food, we can eat our way out of the monsters body.” Coyote star to eat the liver, then the kidney, and the stomach. He comes to a giant, slowly beating object. This must be the heart, so coyote stabbed it. The Monster started to tremble. All the people were escaping out of the slowly closing mouth. When it has almost shut Coyote hears a scream, it is Woodtick and he’s gotten stuck in the mouth. Coyote pulls him free but he is squashed flat. To this day Woodtick remains flat, sucking the blood of passers by.

The Bone Man

Once there was a boy named Nulwee. When he was young, his grandmother told him of Kokolimalayas, The bone Man and how he had destroyed their village and eaten all the people there, except him and his grandmother. One day he was picking berries in a field when he heard a strange rattling noise. The next day when he returned, he heard the strange ratting noise again. He looked up and saw the Bone Man watching him, the Bone Man took his berries and ate them. Nulwee ran all the way home to his grandmother’s house as fast as he could. Nulwee did not tell her of what he had seen. The next day the Bone Man took Nulwee’s berries again, and for many days after. As this was happening, Nulwees grandmother gave him a bow and arrow. She told Nulwee that he was to someday kill the Bone Man with them. The next day the Bone Man threatened to kill Nulwee and his grandmother. Nulwee’s grandmother dressed him in battle clothes and painted his chest and face, then sent him to go kill the Bone Man. Before he left she said “Nulwee, you must shoot the Bone Man in the heart which is in his little finger.” When Nulwee arrived to kill the Bone Man, he teased Nulwee; he lay down and said “Come on, shoot me in the heart.” So Nulwee took careful aim and shot the Bone Man right in the little finger, which was his heart. He got up and tried to chase Nulwee but his bones fell apart. Nulwee took the heart and held it up in the air, thunder came and it started to rain loudly. From now on Nulwees village was no longer in threat of the Bone Man so it grew back into a large and happy village.

Crow Brings the Daylight

In early times the Inuit people lived in darkness. Then Crow tells them of the daylight. Some of them don’t believe him but they get tired of the darkness. They ask Crow to bring them light. Crow agrees to go get them light, he flies and flies for a long time. Finally he arrives in the land of light. He lands on a tree over a stream, which he sees a girl getting water from. Crow turns into a small piece of dust and lands on the girl. She walks into a lodge, he drifts over to her baby brother and lands in his ear. Crow tells the boy to ask for the ball of light, which they keep in a box. The boy plays with it on a string. Then he tells the boy to ask to go outside. When they get outside Crow turns back into himself, snatches the ball of light, and flies away. He finally arrives back at his people. But Crow is so tired from flying that he drops the ball while he’s still in the air. It drops and shatters, light goes everywhere. Crows tells the Inuit people that the light can’t last forever. The light will go away for six months to keep its strength. It will be dark for six months and light for six months, it is still so to this day.

Bibliography

How the First People Were Made, Climbing the Ladders of the worlds, and Coyote and the Earth Monster:

Ferguson, Diana. Native American Myths. London: Collins and Brown Limited, 2001.

The Bone Man:

Simms, Laura. The Bone Man. Singapore: Hyperion Books For
Children, -1997.

Crow Brings the Daylight:

Schlosser, S. E. "Crow Brings the Daylight". American Folklore. December 2, 2007. htt://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/nunavut1.html>.

Endfest 16

A little while ago, I went to a concert called Endfest 16. There were a whole lot of bands there. The first stage was the local stage; one of the bands that played there was called Moneta. My dad told me that the lead singers mom comes into the coffee shop sometimes. The next stage had some really good bands play there. The bands that I enjoyed most at that stage were The Bravery and The Shiny Toy Guns. I didn’t really used to like them but seeing them live was a really fun experience. On the main stage were the best bands; the first that we watched was Hot Hot Heat. They were a really cool band, the drummer came out on stage wearing a jean jacket, a bandana and a pair of aviator glasses. I cant remember what band came next but I’m pretty sure that it was Bright Eyes, then Satellite Party played, which was probably my favorite band there. I think that the singer was drunk because he was saying all this random stuff and running and jumping all over the stage. He also said that he was the singer from Jane’s Addiction, which is another band that I like. Now it started to get dark and the other two stages performances where finished, the crowd grew to fill about two thirds of the Quest field parking lot. The next performance was Social Distortion; we made our way into the crowd until we couldn’t go any further in. As the band came out onto the stage, the crowd went crazy, screaming and roaring.

Thanksgiving

This thanks giving my parents had two other families come over. My dad was going to make this one thing that is a chickenwith some stuffing in it, then he would put that in a duck with morre spicy stuffing sauce. Next he would put that in a turkcey and cook it. But in the end we just ended up having a regular turckey.The next day my dad and I watched a movie called Deadman. It was about this guy (Jonny Depp.) His job was an accountant. He was offered a job in the west so he took all of his money and bought a train ticket to go there. When he arrived he did not have the job anymore, so he ended up helping this one girl to her apartment, but a man came in and shot at the accountant, but the girl took the bullet which went through her and into the accountant. That's just the beginning of the movie. The rest is how a Native American helps him avoid the white men who are after him. This is a really good movie, it was made in black and white. It is a very well made movie that I would strongly recomend.

Winter

This week it was really cold, it's been feeling alot more like winter the last couple weeks. I hope it will snow up in the mountains because I cant wate to go snow boarding. This season is going to be lots of fun because more of my friends are riding up on the Stevens Pass snow bus. I just got a new jacket because my old one is to small and new snow boarding pants because my old ones ripped at the knee because I fell and slid when I was runing in them on the ferry. Now I know why they don't want you to do that on the ferry. I got some bigger boots because of some deal we had at Mt. Pilchuck Winter Sport Shop an dbecause my old ones are to small. We took my board in because I kinda wrecked the end on it, but the guy there wanted my dad to fix it. In the end they ended fixing it, alhtough after my last soccer game, we went to see if it was ready to be picked up, but it wasn't. In the end though it will be ready before it snows at Stevens.