Today we went and worked in two communities Cherry Creek and Red Scaffold. We we arrived in CC around 9:30 and it took us a little time to round up some kids. I witnessed my first dog fight... in CC we have a dog named Storm (pit bull) walk with us around the community I went up to a house to try and get the two kids inside to come join us, so I walked up to the door and there were three dogs around the house and the one under the step was not moving when i walked up, and another was tied up. I went to the door and Storm followed me and right as we were walking away another dog came from the side of the house and slowly attacked Storm. Storm did not move for a little big and just laid there, i was a little scared but i couldn't walk up there and check on him...he got up and enjoyed the rest of the day with us.
We had about 10 kids playing games with us, we played red light green light, a little kickball and some relay races. Around 11:30 we walked to kids to get their lunch, we decided to take the kids down to the river to eat lunch and a long the way I had some really good conversations. I walk informed about the fact that in the community a lot of people are family and sometimes the kids live with their grandparents and maybe their parents live down the street in the next trailer. We reached the river and the water was brown and dirty and all the kids wanted to do was swim. They enjoyed throwing garbage in the river to watch it float... it becomes a never ending battle to get them to pick up their garbage. We left CC after dinner and headed on our way to Red Scaffold.
We stopped along the road to eat our lunch and debrief about our experience. We sat for just a little bit and then made it to Red Scaffold around 1:30.
In Red Scaffold we drove up the hill and seemed like the kids were waiting for us. So we had about 7 kids ready to play, but we still did knock on some doors to see if some other kids wanted to join us. We ended up getting about 10-12kids come down to the gym to play with us. We played a wide variety of games again. We started with kickball, played line tag, played the game oboshinatitaten (do you know what that is?), and then again a very cool relay race that Derek had set up. After the gym activities we moved into another room and set up some arts and craft projects. The kids drew some pictures, made some jewelry and Lannie even attempted to make something out of the modeling clay we had. After a while of being inside we went outside and I ended up playing tag with 3 of the boys. While playing i noticed some writing on the playground. They were some swear words about the YMCA, we didn't really know how to approach it but the kids outside informed us that there is some bullying going on. They said that the girls are bullying them to not play with the YMCA but the boys don't listen or retaliate. I hope the next time i am out there to connect with the girls and get a better idea of what is going on.
We left RS and headed back into town. We stopped and ate at The Ranch House in Dupree and then headed back to the hotel for the night.
No pictures today, but i will have plenty more later.
We planned our itinerary for our weekend off coming up and we are going to go camping in Hill City SD at Horse Thief campground and tour around the black hills, we are really excited. It has been a long time since i have been to the black hills and Nancy has never been there.
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