Day 11-12

Day 11: We awake at 7 am. Hot, sticky, and smelly from the previous day. We all need a shower bad. Luckily we headed to Wellpinit High School where we will have the opportunity to take a shower. Yes! While we wait for our turn to shower, we had the awesome chance to update our blogs.
     We headed back to fairgrounds in Wellpinit, Spokane to pack and clean up the campsite. 11:30 we are on the road and heading to Nespelem.
     My phone has no service at Nespelem community center! You got to be kidding! I felt so alone without my phone, but I guess it was better so I was able to really connect with nature and everything around us. We were to set up our tents and unload everything. Yet, the Bandwagon decided to just use our sleeping mattresses and sleeping bags to sleep outside and enjoy the wonderful start up above.
     We headed into town and went to eat pizza! It was amazing! Sausage and pepperoni, yum! I have been fing for some pizza, some other type of food instead of sandwhiches!! Hah after a lovely dinner, we went to Grand Coulee Dam to watch the light show. it was really beautiful out, dark sky and a lovely warm breeze. The light show started and not only did we see some pretty amazing effects but also learned about how the Grand Coulee Dam came to be and how the Columbia River became tame other than a raging sea. We head to Nespelem Community Center once again and get ready for bed.
Day 12: We get up early in the morning as usual and we all gather in the Nespelem community center's gym to here the words of Barbara Frielander. She has spent 45 years with the Colville Tribes. She explained how wind cycles through the mountains which causes radiation; which is ill winds. Because of these ill winds, people develop cancer and people are dying from cancer every day. She also talked about the "Ancient One" which others know as the Kenniwick Man, and how scientist wanted to take samples and such but he belonged to the people, he was a part of the people so he belonged to them. Then she told us to Share what we learn! That's what I'm doing, sharing what I learn.
     After hearing from Barbara. We headed down to see trout. We rode a boat to an area where they had many trout.This place gave me mixed emotions as our guide talked about how these trout were specifically food it made me sad to here that the fish were nor boy or girl but an it. A scientific process that can cause deformities within the trout. That place produce over 7-8 million trouts
      We went back to the community center and had free time until 8 pm. During bandwagons free time, we decided to go into town and wash clothes! Thank goodness, I need clean clothes! After all our clothes are completely washed we head back to camp. Once we get there, we follow a person from DNR to the mountains. We went howling!! We arrived at an area which they call the kill site and we all had to be very quite. no shutting the doors to any of the vehicles. We stand around completely quite and wait. Then the sound of the DNR guide's howl pierces through the night. Sadly, we did not get a response but people were able to try howling. We load up and head back to camp because it was an hour in  half to get back.