Sunday, August 24, 2025

Today is our first free day we got to do whatever we wanted with no trainings!! We went to church in the morning. There was a really nice service in Port Alsworth. The same teacher that took us into the forest yesterday was the same teacher that drove a bunch of us in the big van a.k.a. the school bus to church. It was outside in a big outdoor gym it was really cool. After church, we went back to the school and one of the other teachers taught me in a couple of people how to smoke salmon so first we had to pick out all the bones then we had to slice it into like one to one and a half inch strips then we brined it for about an hour with one cup of salt and one cup of brown sugar just wrapped it all over it then I had to sit for an hour or two and then we smoked it for about an hour or two and then we ate it for dinner. We went to the runway around 4pm and we watched a few planes fly in. Samaritans purse has a cool lodge where veterans and their spouses can come and stay at a retreat for a week. so a big group of us waved flags along the side of the runway as they flew in. After dinner, I made a couple more mini birch bark baskets. 







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