Our morning started out like any other.. No that is a lie. First of all we woke up before 10am, 7:40am to be truthful. Alissa and I were starting our first day of work at Wounded Knee school district. Alissa works in the first grade room and I work with the lovely Kindergarten.
We woke up packed our lunch and then the choice... What van do we take? I picked up the keys to the brown bulky conversion van, thought twice and set them down. I wanted to take the newer sleeker blue van. I grabbed the keys and we rushed out the door. We made a quick stop for some morning coffee. I need some caffeine do to the fact that we were awake so EARLY.
We started our drive, the whole 40 miles to the school. Just as we arrived to wounded knee, my pal Alissa leaned over...
"Did you feel that?
"um nope i sure didn't. What did you hit a dog Alissa?" (a common occurrence here on the Rez)
"oh no lizzie, WHAT DOES THAT LIGHT MEAN?"
(the check engine light flashing)
"Ahh, well i have no idea. I will look it up." (after a few moments i began to read the warning out loud.)
"When Check engine light flashes, there is a misfire and can result in exhaust entering the car and further damage can happen by your car irrupting in flames." (i for some reason could NOT stop laughing)
"Lizzie Its not funny, we could start on fire!"
( we decided to pull the car(van) over in the middle of no where. We couldn't get cell phone reception so we decided to make one more move and drive up onto wounded knee hill, you know where the massacre happened. Hopefully we could get reception. WE DID.)
(Jake arrived told us some things and drove us to the school. We were sure that the car had been fixed but on our ride home from Henry, a community member. He saw our van on the hill and said...
"You better move that van. People here are nervy. when you come tomorrow. you might only have a frame left."
"oh dear!" ( we towed to the van later and it is now being looked at by a wonderful man named Ata.
Praise God we didn't start on FIRE
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