April 27, 2005
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Shikoba is a really interesting person once you get to know him. He’s always observing his surroundings, looking at nature and things like that. Yesterday, I caught him staring at a butterfly for ten whole minutes! Sure, he can get really distracted all the time, but he’s a pretty cool guy.
He’s still teaching me to use sign language and I think I’ve got the hang of it. Shikoba’s an awesome teacher too, but he can be kinda strict sometimes. If I’m not paying attention or if I get something wrong, he’ll hit me on the head. Not too hard, but enough to get me to shut up.
The village has been really wonderful! The people have pretty much accepted me into their community and it kinda feels like home. The hunters especially like my dagger. I showed it to them once and they invited me to go hunting with them sometime.
I’ve still got a lot to learn about their language, a lot more than the one Shikoba’s teaching me, but I’ve learned some basic words like ‘house’ and ‘hunt’ and ‘food.’ I’m still working on it. Hopefully I’ll stay here long enough to be able to be fluent!
Last night I had a really bad nightmare. I was running through a town and it was full of people just standing there. They didn’t look at anything, just sort of gazed off into the sky. It was really creepy. I just kept running and running. I don’t know why exactly, I just got this panicked feeling and I felt like I couldn’t stop or something bad would happen.
I guess I was yelling in my sleep because one of the women in a nearby house shook me awake and asked if I was alright. I haven’t had a nightmare that bad in a while, not since I left the lab. Whatever was chasing me in my dream, I hope it doesn’t turn out to be real.
After we had another boar that night for dinner, Shikoba brought me to a waterfall on the other side of one of the cliffs. It was really hard to get up to but he made it look easy! It must have taken an hour or two to get up there but it was worth it in the end.
There was this huge waterfall, maybe three hundred feet tall. The wind was really strong and I was scared I would be blown off the cliff. Shikoba made sure to hang onto me so I didn’t fall. When the wind was especially strong, he laughed at my girly screaming. What a great friend he is.
We just sat there for awhile and he taught me more words. It was really nice. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a waterfall before and I don’t think I’ll ever see one that nice again. I’ll have to remember it for the rest of my life.
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