Virtue!

So the virtue I'm going to try this week is patience. I have Patience but not a lot and especially when I'm cooped up in the house with my brothers and sisters.( They are MAJOR pains) This could be a very interesting week to say the least! :)

Monday- I didn't say anything about me trying to be more patient to my family because I knew they would make this a very long week. Today I think I did ok. I listen to my mom and didn't get frustrated with the busy schedule, and when my little sisters didn't help clean our room I didn't say anything and left them alone.

Tuesday- Today my little sisters still didn't clean up all of their stuff off the floor and I just let it be. It drove me crazy on the inside cause when my sides clean I like their side to be clean as well. My little brother Justin on the other hand was on the computer all day and i was trying to blog this and well i kind of yelled at him because he told me I could wait! (how dare he!) so today i had half the patience.

Wednesday- I had no patience today what-so-ever I had a headache and they were being loud so i snapped. but i did go to speedway 95 and saw cars go round and round it was actually pretty fun i was surprised i liked it! Early today my cousin Michele came over and we painted some of the back deck it was hot!!!

Thursday- we did some more stiff washed the deck so it could be painted, i scrubbed our pool it has a rip so we have to clean it so it can be fixed. My little sisters got a Wii so I've been playing it's so fun! especially wii fit!

Friday- I cleaned for my little sister Kathryn's party she's 8! I didn't paint cause it was going to rain and it did! i drove to unity with my dad to get pizza for the party, we had ice cream cake! yummy there were tons of little kids and my 6 year old cousin yelled at me! that was a test of my patience i don't like it when i get yelled at by kids younger than me! i didn't do so well with that it made me mad!

Saturday- I drove all day in Bangor and then i went to Gilford for a surprise birthday party! My mother was telling all the strangers about my attitude so perfect strangers probably felt like they new me! that was embarrassing and annoying! what a challenge this has been!

This week was such a challenge i have awful Patience i knew this before but i really know now i think I did a little better then I expected I think I may have left things out but i did the best that i could if this was a long lasting thing i would truly learn to have patience we can definitely say that. :)

Touching Spirit Bear week 2

In the book Touching Spirit Bear, Cole who beat a kid almost to death is going through the circle of justice. The circle of justice is where you heal yourself and are not punished. Edwin is a big part of helping Cole with this process bringing him supplies showing him ways to help him heal. Edwin is also apart of a Tlingit tribe. Tlingit tribes lived in Southeast Alaska, the tribes are split up into two different colonies the ravens and the eagles, Tlingit Indians believed that ravens and eagles could only marry each other. Tlingit's dived themselves into a system where there were the hierarchy all the way down to peasants. Tlingit Indians also had slaves until the U.S made a law against it. The Tlingit tribes have so many different things about them then the normal Indian we talk about. Usually we hear about how Indians hunted, fished and grew crops on the land that they were on but we never hear what their "laws" are.Tlingit's laws are property laws for example a song, in our society today we inherit thing based on family and if they leave something to us or not. The Tlingit's we given possessions based on their place in the clan. Tlingit tribes are big into family crest and passing something important down to someone you trust Garvey did this by giving Cole his at.oow that was passed down in his family from generation to generation, when Garvey gave the at.oow to Cole he was surprised that someone had faith and trusted him and i think this was one step in helping Cole heal. Edwin and Garvey had both hurt someone in their time, they both told Cole that he would never completely heal until he fixed the wrong that he did to Peter. Cole asked both Edwin and Garvey why they were helping him and going through all the trouble, both men simply stated that they had hurt someone, Cole had dig deeper and start to heal before he understood that they were helping him because they knew what it was like to hurt someone and not be able to fix it, another reason they helped him i thinks is because it helped them to help not only Cole to heal but themselves.


















Works Cited:

LaPointe, Thomas. "Rostia Worl." Harriman Expedition Retraced. 7 July 2008 .