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The highlight of the day was a class that called “US Immigration Policy Under Trump” that was led by Professor Adrian Pantoja. He discussed the importance of decolonizing the mental and physical barriers that have been implemented into our mentality. i deeply appreciate what he represents and the knowledge that he shared with everyone. It’s now up to us to educate and implement the mentality of no division to our communities and appreciate all other ethnicities and cultures. 

Today I learned how to play a game called Mexica Flower Wars .The idea of the game was to work as a team to protect the person holding the staff.The game was a very fun way to communicate and learn about each other.Earlier today we had to write what we would put in a college essay.I had a hard time with this because one of the topics was hobbies and talents.Overall today was good I  guess.Yesterday was more challenging because we were outside for more than 6 hours.We also got to make soapstone necklaces that took a long time to carve.

Ooooooooooooook let me tel you about what happen yesterday. Yesterday we learned mayan math and how to wright in their language. Then after that, we were gladly invited to a naming cermony  were we got to see other natives get their first native names and their second native names. all last but not least we were able to paly a game today witch was called mixica flower wars. witch is the same as capture the flag.

Communities can help with problems that people have people work all together. If a community went together to stop a problem it will be easier than someone solving a problem all by themselves. Communication is very important in almost everything that’s affecting communities.

The concepts of communication that we had to practice in Mexica Flower Wars with Hector made me realize that as long as we work together we can get things done!!! I loved that we came up with strategies together and if they didn’t work we discussed how to improve them as a whole group. 

communication has a lot to do with being open to new idea’s. young minds have astonishing ideas that deserve to be heard. Not being open to new possibilities is turning down change. Change is something that no one  should be scared of. It is something that can be presumed.

Hey everyone! Today was a very interesting day with all of our classes and lectures. the day started off with a writing class with Ricky. In the class we shared some environmental issues we were concerned about and what steps we can take to make our concerns disappear. We also talked about some laws that we’ve had problems with and would like to change due to the effect it had on us. Later on we picked topics to research and present on. After that we did indigenous games with hector where we were taught communication and many other skills such as learning from your mistakes and coming back from failure. these two classes related to each other because they both teach us the same concepts in the end.

Yesterday was a very important day for my family. It was a day where one is coming of age. In other words it was my brothers naming ceremony and all the students were invited and got to go. My brother Is a very important figure to me because he is my oldest sibling and inspires me to be the best I can be although we may be very competitive with eachother. My brothers old name had been little dragon fly and recieved the new name of spirit eagle. These ceremonies are important to my tribe and to the families who are having a child being named. I hope that the experience of the students going to the ceremony gave them an understanding of what different tribes do to celebrate coming of age.