Hello, my names Shaina if you may wonder. I am 15 years old and I come from a place called Kuigilnguq where I lived all my life since I was born. In my school, I like to study writing, reading, and Yupik. My goal is to graduate from high school and either go to college or training, but if I want a job that isn’t cheap, I’d rather go to college. I still haven’t decided if I should go straight to college or head to training. My career interests are being a pilot. I know it takes a lot of work to become a pilot. I know it takes a lot of math, reading, writing and many tests. But still I could become a pilot if I have the determination. Also, I’m interested in being a health-aide, helping sick people get better . My aunt always tells me that if I want to become a health-aide I would have to work very hard. She says that I would have to travel many times to take tests. My aunt also travels to different places to work in villages where she was assigned by her boss.
I like to go walking with my friends or 4-wheel riding with my friends or my relatives. Every time I go riding with them I always feel happy and wish that our happiness could last forever. I really love to go hunting with my cousin, my dad, and all the people I follow to hunt. I also like to go snow machine riding on our snow machine with my friends. We like to go water crossing or cruising on powder after snow storms. It makes me feel very excited and I always smile for a long time when ever we do that. Another thing I love to do is go egg hunting with my mom, grandma, siblings, or cousins. We love to laugh at each other when ever someone gets frightened by a bird. I’ve been enjoying staying here at KuC ever since we came.. The fun thing that ever happened this week was when we went swimming and then our supervisor John got tipped over by two girls. Another fun thing that happened was when we went kayaking and went swimming after. We had so much fun even though the water was cold.

Hello my name is Tabitha, and I’m from a village called Alakanuk, Alaska. Someday I would like to graduate from high school, go to either training or college, and become a pediatrician. A pediatrician is just a job that I maybe would like, but a great goal. I haven’t fully decided on what I want to become I do like kids and would like to help them when they get sick, but I still am not sure. Things I enjoy doing when I’m not in school or have spare time are hanging out with friends and family, taking rides and walks, boating, meeting new people, traveling, dancing, playing basketball, and having a great time. I arrived here at KUC Talent Search on Sunday. Since I’ve been here I had fun, met new people, went kayaking and had a great time. I enjoy the classes I take to prepare me for my future education. We have gone on tours, and I’m just waiting to go on the YKHC tour (which will probably be more interesting.) Being here is a great opportunity! You get prepared and have acquired knowledge about college, you meet new people, you have a great time, and they give you great opportunities, and hope for the best!

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Hi my name is Stephanie and I am from Oscarville, AK. My career interest is being a Hobo, I joke. My career interest is becoming a nurse. My goal is to graduate out of high school so that I can go to college because I want to learn more about stuff. I used to like math but now I don’t and now my favorite is either reading or writing.

I like to help out my mom and older sis, with the house and going to fish camp. I also like to play ball and go swimming with my friends. My favorite part of Talent Search so far is going to class because it is a lot of fun and I am learning lots. Today we just wrote about a day in our school. We even played Mofia which was so much fun, but it would be better with more people. Yesterday we played a game that Ben made up. I was to shy to ask around but I did, only a little bit.

Hello, my name is Tristan and I am from a southwestern native village called Kuigilnguq or Kwigillingok. I am fifteen years old and going to be sixteen in two months and six days. I like math because when I become a pilot I could multiply the weight of the freight and know how many pounds it totals. My personal interests outside of school are coming here to Talent Search, going salmon fishing, or staying my hometown and enjoying life as it comes. So far, my favorite part of Talent Search is when we to Hangar Lake to go kayaking, why I like to go kayaking during KuC camp is because we get to go in groups. That means trouble for anyone out in the lake because people can splash or get tipped over by my biggest brother, John.

Hello, my name is Megan, and I am from Kwigillingok, AK. I have lived in Kwig for fifteen years, all my life.
I love to hang out with my friends during school. My favorite subjects in school are, Writing, Reading, P.E., and Science. Hopefully, when I graduate I will go to college and learn some significant things. I want to become a health aide or a nurse, because I don’t want people to have health problems. My goal is to protect people from getting sick. That is my plan if I become a nurse or a health aid. The most fun thing for me is participating in sports. I love to play Mid-Coast Basketball with my team. Our name is the “Kwigillingok Eagles.” I will never stop playing basketball until I retire. The most fun subject at talent search ’09 was being on computers. I really like being on the computer because I get to type and check my other internet website. Another fun thing was playing a game with cards. I really enjoyed playing “Mafia” with my other group. Talent Search this year was a best year I ever took, 2009.

Hi my name is Waska, and I live in Tununak. I used to live in Kasigluk but when my dad got a job over at his home town, all of my family moved except my sister Sherry. I like math because sometimes we take a short break and mess around with our work and other stuff. My goals are to finish high school, go to college, and after college I would like to a NBA basketball player or an army dude. What I like to do for fun is go walking around and play basketball with adults that are more funny than high school and JR high players.

My favorite part of Talent Search is going into the computer lab and doing work, and after work it FREE TIME!! My favorite part of class is that I can talk to my best friend that’s right next to me (on my right) and she’s fun to talk to.

Hi, my name is Victoria and I am from Toksook Bay. My parents love to live there and so do I.

My academic and career interests and goals are: I love to learn about science and I would like to study some science things when I’m in college. I would also like to learn about some math.

My personal interests (when I’m not in school) are just to hang out with my friends and joke around, talk, go riding, laugh, and go swimming when it’s a bright sunny day. My friends and I try to travel together.

My favorite part so far in Talent Search is when we went to kayaking because I had a lot of fun. This year is my first time to go Talent Search so everything that we did is my first time here. When we went kayaking, I thought I was going to fall but I didn’t. While kayaking, I was so slow and the others went fast. Well, I wasn’t the only one that was behind. My other friend waited for me until I made it to the shore.

My other favorite is when we go to class because we have fun games to play. Well, it was mostly about playing games. The first day when we went to class it was just about guessing or trying to figure out what this game was and the next day we played Mafia. After we played games we wrote about some things. We described the food and going to High School for the first time.

I hope you are enjoying camp and I look forward to reading your posts and projects later this week…..

Ben

You know, I told myself that this was they year that I would keep regular updates on the blog for the Talent Search program. Time just slipped away and it hasn’t happened. I am happy to report though I have finally gotten through all 200 applications and letters should be in the mail today coming out to the village schools about whether or not students got accepted into the Talent Search camps. These letters should be in the village schools sometime early next week hopefully. If you can’t wait that long you are more than welcome to call me at 800-478-5822 ext. 559 to find out if you were accepted. We usually receive applications from around 20-25 villages, so we try to accept students from all of the villages. I’m looking forward to meeting all of the new students that will be coming and I can’t wait to see all of the returning students again. I’m hoping this summer will be even better than last year. If you ever have any suggestions for camps, please let me know.

Amy

Well, we actually are a way into the new school year, but it seems that I haven’t been updating this blog too regularly. My bad! I’ve been having a pretty good year so far. I have been helping out with the Friday Clubs at BRHS for the past month. That has been so much fun. It’s great getting to see some of the Talent Search students on a regular basis. I miss you guys!!!!

I had a great opportunity this past week to help judge the Jr. High Speech Competition for the Lower Kuskokwim School District. As I sat looking at the list of students who were here, I realized that I recognized quite a few names on that list. It was great talking to these students. I wish I could do more with you all throughout the school year.

I’m starting to get busy with my year end report. It is due at the end of November and I’m stilling working on trying to get information from all of the schools. I got about half of the schools reports back, but still need a few more. If any of you site administrators or teachers are reading this, please try to get them sent back to me soon!

I can’t wait for next summer to see all of you back here again for another year of camps. I’m always looking for ideas, so if you can think of anything please let me know. You can email me at talent_search@bethel.uaf.edu

Well, we are officially done with the Talent Search College Camps for the the summer of 2008. We had a very successful summer with many returning students and many new students. We had over 100 students from all over the YK Delta, including Bethel. The students enjoyed many activities from learning about college to career exploration to having fun kayaking on Hangar Lake.

I will slowly be getting the pictures uploaded to the flickr website for all of you to see. I have just finished uploading the pictures from the first week of camp (June 8-13). Click on the flickr link there over on the right hand side. Come on, you know you want to do it. See, isn’t that much better! Enjoy the pictures.

Amy

This is a game that i didn’t know how to play, until last night. Every game we played, it got easier and easier. The first time I played, I thought I was going to lose to Charles but I didn’t. He said it was beginners luck. That was the game I liked playing this week.

Adrian Sergie

About what I learned about a potential career about Yuut Yaqungvaat (Flight School) is about how to fly a plane.This guy who’s a friend, his name is Lewis of Kongiganak (Kong for short). anyways he was talking about to learn math for a job. So you’ll have to get a diploma for college and for work right after the graduate from college. Then, came an easy challenge for me for what it’s like flying in the air with an Tengsuun (Plane) right by playing this game on a computer called “Flight Simulator”. Well it is a fun game to play but you got to be serious in this flight school. Then, I let go of the yolk right away I said, “Look, no hands!!” then these people started laughing at my joke. so I already know how to fly a plane with no hands…but nervous to fly one. So that’s what I learned at flight school. How to fly a plane.

Thomas

There was an activity we did here at Talent Search; a scavenger hunt in the Cultural Center library. It was exciting and competitive. Fourteen students were split into two groups and I happened to be in the second group. Both groups were given a sheet of paper for every student. And we had many different options of finding the answers. We were able to ask people around, look into the books, and use the computers for the internet. And the first place winners would get a prize.
After a while of searching for the answers on our sheet of paper, we kind of slowed down when the first team was winning. But we finished our work anyway. Hector, the instructor started checking the answers like he was grading them. Even when we finished second place, we had better answers. So we got the first place. And our prize was to line up first in line for the ice cream. There were different options of flavor and toppings and everything. And the ice cream was great!
-MARY from TOKSOOK BAY

The number one activity that I would choose is kayaking. Kayaking is fun because you get to have free time. Drifting and floating across the river, many of the students from different villages experience many different things about kayaking. One of the most important things about kayaking is balance. Balance is the key for different causes. Flipping over will be a fear for many beginners because, there are mostly beginners. This potential career that I learned about was interesting. You might have to have many skills and abilities for this job. This job might require college degrees, experienced many different jobs, and so on. Maybe not, I think I forgot the information that was required for the job. I wasn’t that amazed because I have been on this website for a while. Still learning about jobs, I managed to find a couple good jobs for I. Okay bye.

The other day, we played Guitar Hero II with our small groups. Guitar Hero II is a guitar game that you could play on the T.V. and it has many different types of songs on it. There’s 2 guitar type controllers or something to play. It mostly has rock, punk rock, or something to choose. I think that was the best part of Talent Search.

Miranda

This week we played I think its called have you or something like that. How to play the game is where you put the chairs in a circle but one person has to be standing. Then that person will say if we did this or this and then if you have you have to move to another chair before it gets taken. The person who was standing also moves to the chair and the person with out a chair thinks of a different thing to say. I learned a potential career about me, I joke. I learned that potential career is important for people who are looking for jobs.
Jackie

A game that I really liked when I first time played it. It was very fun when you have to say Have You Ever….. Say what you did before. If u didn’t understand what they have done or what you haven’t done what they said that you haven’t done you have to stay on your sit. That was the best game I have ever played. It was fun hardcore!! Its a game I have learned.
~Kristen~

During a week of staying here I learned many facts about college life. Cindy talked to us about applying to college, getting scholarships, loaning, saving up money, and parts of getting jobs. Applying for scholarships may be boring but writing a essay is better than loaning a couple of thousand dollars. College may be a challenge but having a positive attitude and succeeding will do you great!
-Nicole

The activity I have done during Talent Search was being on the computer and chatting with friends, learning how to play pool, shopping at AC and Swansons, walking around with friends at pinkys park, taking pictures, making friends with every one in here, and learning how to be in college. I think the best part of the activity was being on the computer and getting to know every one!
I learned how to find a job through internet after I achieve my goals in college. I also learned how to have a big paying job. But, my dream is to become a pilot.
Roseanne