Ch. 6 Chilocco

This chapter brought back a few memories while I was growing up. When I was smaller my family used to visit my grandma in Mandaree North Dakota. She lived out in the country and her house was surrounded by trees and ponds. My brothers and I would go and make forts with trees and whatever else we could find. We would try to make the biggest fort we could. We also would try to catch rabbits and prairie dogs but we would rarely have luck. I also remember going to school in high school at Bismarck High and there was a lot of students there and there were a lot of cliques. There were the jocks, nerds, gothic, skaters, and a few others. I think kids go with a group that they are most comfortable with or the group that they relate too. I hung out with the jocks because that was the group I was always around.

I could just see the boys around the camp fire singing and dancing. I remember when I was younger, my brothers and I would have our own powwow. We would hit a box for a drum and the others would dance and use clothes as outfits. It was fun times, I enjoyed reading that part.

Chapter 5 Chilocco

A couple of my friends went into the military and when they came back from boot camp they would tell me stories about it.  How tough the drills were, and they would have to march everywhere.  They would tell me how strict the rules were. How mean the people in charge were and how many rules they had. That’s how I think Chilocco was. The school was run like military life.  No wonder why some of the students would rebel or even run away. I know if I went to school at Chilocco, I would have probably ran away or went home in the summer and never went back.

Chapter 4

This chapter brought back a few memories going up. It took me back to high school days when we used to play pranks on each other. The boys at my high school used to play pranks on the girls all the time. One time the boys threw a lot of water balloons at the girls at homecoming. The girls were pissed for a couple days but they eventually got over it.

I also remember the times where it looked like everyone was following the rules but not everyone was. A couple times in English class we were suppose to be reading a book and a lot of the guys had magazines in the books. So the teacher thought everyone was doing the assignment because everyone was quiet and looking at they’re book. But a lot were reading magazines.

It makes me feel better about the life of boarding school that the students were making the best out of school and yet they were having fun in the progress.

They Called it Prairie Light Ch 3

When I was reading this chapter, memories from high school started going through my head. When I was a senior in high school I had to attend school for a full day, but I only had two classes I needed to graduate. I would have those classes in the morning and the rest of the day I took carpentry and welding classes. These courses were no where near intense as the kids at Chillicco, we were mostly there because we had to take something to full up the day.

In the summer time my high school had a summer program, where students can work in the school and get paid. All we wanted to get with our checks was the best clothes and shoes at that time. We worked hard for our money but it paid off when I bought my first pair of Jordan’s that year!