Halee part 1

Hi. My name is Halee and I doubt anyone other than Mrs. Larkin will read this, but hi. In the last year, I moved back to Arkansas from Montana. I lived there on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation for three years. It wasn't always fun, and most of the time I didn't enjoy it very much. People weren't the nicest and it was always cold. It was around 30 degrees or so in the summer sometimes. In the winter, it was torturous. It got down to 70 degrees below zero windchill. You couldn't do anything when it was that cold. You're not supposed to go outside because if you do, you'll probably die like one of my classmates did in January of 2018. It was tough. The community took it really hard. The hunting was awesome, and the game was HUGE. Deer, elk and buffalo taste AMAZING, especially the young meat. Pheasant tastes pretty good too. The mountains are beautiful and the fields are so wide open you can see for hundreds of miles. Until you actually go to Montana and experience the vastness of it, you'll never truly understand why it's called "Big Sky Country." I sure didn't understand until I experienced it first-hand. The fresh air was wonderful and helped me breathe better. Even though we were at a higher elevation, sitting still made it easy to breathe, but exercising was HARD. I played volleyball, basketball and ran track, so sometimes it was harder. In the summer, there were wildfires, and the smoke from those fires almost suffocated you. There were specific warnings sent out telling people to not go outside and keep pets inside because the smoke was almost overwhelming. It was very hard for me, but writing helped me through a lot. Since being back home, it hasn't been easy the whole time, but again, writing helps. I'll probably put some of those writings on here for anyone to read so I can share the thoughts I had during that hard time. The bad did drown out the good very often, but some of my best writings came out of that time. I just want some of those writings to have the possibility to help someone else. Enjoy!