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Floyd Dryden
 
Destination One - Cultural Ambassador Photos
Alberta Demantle
Victoria
Ashley
Jerry
Tuyurkiaq
Evanka
 
Destination One - Community Profile

The Cultural Ambassador Team

Our School -This is the Akiak School. It is a K-12 school. It is 3 years old and we love it.

Here is our main road

 

this is the akiak youth group center

Debbie Jackson-Mayor
 
Destination Two:
You Might Be From Akiak IF...
  • If the Ivan’s store is your favorite place to hang out.
  • If you see as many loose dogs as people.
  • If you see many cottonwood trees.
  • If you play bingo at the community building.
  • If you do your laundry at the community building for $ 3.00 a load.
  • If you pay $6.25 for a gallon of gas.
  • If you pay a buck twenty-five for a can of pop.
  • If you heat your home with a woodstove.
  • If you see more boats than cars.
  • If you own a 4 wheeler or a snow machine.
  • If you pick 10 to 30 gallons of berries for the winter.
  • If you eat Eskimo ice cream more often than real ice cream.
  • If you catch lots of salmon to dry and smoke to eat.
  • If July is the hottest month.
  • If there are more mosquitoes than there are people in the world.
  • If you swim in the Kuskokwim River.
  • If you travel on the Kuskokwim River.
  • If you go ice fishing in November for Lush fish.
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    Destination Three:

    Highlights from our team's expectations for their exchange

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    		Name one thing that you are a little worried about when you think about living in your Sister School community for the exchange: i think it will be exiting, they might be mean to me.
    Name one thing that you think you will miss from your home community while living in your Sister School community: i will miss my family and friends. i will miss the yupik food i always eat @ home.
    How do you think the people in your Sister School community will be different than the people in your home community? they might have more strict teachers, they might have too much people in the hall ways, there will be lots of people in their class room. it will be really big there.
         		 
     
    Destination Five:
    View our plan to welcome our visiting Cultural Ambassadors
     
     
    Destination Six:

    Highlights from our team's thoughts about being a Cultural Ambassador

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    Destination Seven: The First Time We Meet

    Chloe is trying on a traditional parka

    Dog mushing adventure

    Kenny is happy to help out.
    Thoughts from our team about our first day of the exchange    

     

    Describe what you did to get ready for your guests arrival.: As the hosting team we planned a school sleep over, and a dinner to welcome the visiting Juneau team. We invited the 6th and 7th grade class to the sleep over. We invited Mattew Turner to come to our school to help us with "getting acquainted games." We picked up our visitors and gave them a quick tour of the village.

    What are your first impressions of the visiting Cultural Ambassadors?: They looked like they were scared. Some ambassadors were concerned with the boots some were wearing. They don't wear rubber boots in the winter that is more of a fall and spring foot wear. They all thought they looked nice and friendly.

    What were the best moments of welcoming your visitors?: The sleep over was the most popluar event. Akiak kids like to have school sleep overs. They played basketball, some learned new dance moves, we watched movies, socialized and got to know each other better and had computer time.

    What are you most looking formward to doing now that your guests are here?: We are very excited to teach them the Yupik dance, go dog mushing and go on the snow machine adventure.

    		    
     
    Destination Seven: Getting Reacquianted

    We were on tour of the Floyd Drydan school and loved the Eagle sculpture.

    This is the Juneau and Akiak team hanging out

    These are our friends from Juneau. Calley and Misha
    Thoughts from our team about getting reacquainted    
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    Area for Exploration One: One Thing We Must See Or Experience When We Go To Juneau:
    Civil Services
    		What we learned. That fireman have a 24 hour shift and then a day off.
    Fireman are always learning in a classroom to keep up to date,
    They wash and dry the hoses when they return from a fire.
    Helmets are a cool fashion statement as well as good safety.
     
    Area for Exploration Two
    Public Safety
    		What we learned. How to become a coast guard.
    The equipment they need to get on a boat.
    How important it is to have the right gear.
    This is at the coast guard
     
    Area for Exploration Three
    Juneau Police Department
    		What we learned. How stressful the job of a policeman is.
    That they respond to accidents also.
    That they have a kit that can easily take finger prints of of things that may have been touched.
    This is the Police Station in Juneau
     
    Destination Eleven: Our First Week Together
    Closing circle thoughts from our team on the first exchange  
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    Destination Eleven: Our Final Time Together
    Closing circle thoughts from our second (and final) exchange  

     
    Destination Twelve: Last Words
    Final thoughts from our team about the journey  
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