Russian Orthodox Christmas

House to house Christmas. Thats the way Russian Orthodox Christmas is spent for the whole isolated, small villages. That is called Slaaviq. Every year Slaaviq begins January 7, and lasts about a whole long trick-or-treating week. Because every house they give out candy. Most houses are Russian Orthodox Christians. 

Every single day on the seventh the first house is Fr.'s house. Two starts and the two flags enter to sing. They sing joyful, wonderful songs! Oh how wonderful they sing, the singers sing for thirty minutes straight. Than the sisterhood and Mother is always there to help with the food, and the dishes. They feed the people and pass out candy or stuff. After everybody gets all packed with food and snack, the star and the flag goes out first, and than now every body goes out to wait. That is where the star and the flag gets separated. One is called the 'old Kasigluk' and the other one is called 'Akula'. 

Most days are the longest days because they quit slaaviqing after tweleve P.M. This year the latest was four A.M. That is the quiting time of the day of slaaviq. HAPPY SLAAVIQ EVERYBODY!!

SPORTZ

I am a Jr in the high school. I have eight classes from 8:45am to 4:30pm. That is how long I am at school before I go home. But having to join sports I go home around 7-8pm. I am use to being in school late, but I hate to go home hungry. But I love to join sports. Just like I said at the top, I like to join sports. I joined cross country, volleyball, now it is basketball season! ohh yea!! haha..I was thinking of not joining any sports except basketball. But our school finally had a volleyball team, so I thought I'd join it for the first time. WE MADE IT ALL THE WAY TO CHAMPIONSHIP!!! WE GOT SECOND PLACE TOO!! Our first year of having a team, and we got second. HOW AMAZING! I guess this is already about my sports and my school.

About me

Hi my name is Anastasia, and I live in a small rural village-southwestern. There are about 200 people in my village. Which I would say that we have a small village. There are a lot of small families. But I have seven siblings, which I would say that I have a kind of big family. I love basketball, and volleyball! They are my favorite sports of the year! I always join those sports just to have fun, and learn more about them. So I guess I'd say that I can't live without them. The pictures up there are when I was in Volley ball, and the other one is the one is our Girls Basketball team, small team huh? There was only five of us last year. But this year theres seven of us. Also it's a pretty good team we have.