Growing up in Kasigluk all my life, I never really saw how our community feels about each other. Until two weeks ago I found out the first time how my community does care and support for each other after a terrible incident with the Anvils' house that was accidently got burned. Everything was lost within the house. It was horrible sight and made me cry since my friend's house was fallen into ashes.
Few days after the burning, our youth group announced they were going to have a cake walk here in Akiuk school. I wasn't planning on going and support. I decided I had to go for my friend's sake. I thought the cake walk was going to be a brief, but I was wrong. I didn't except so many people that would support and donate many cakes and items. Since the other times of the cake walk events that happened in the past were short and hardly any people came. That day was different.
I never saw so many people coming to a cake walk.
All that time I was surprised how my community really cares and willing to help. I was thanking God the whole time. Each round I was elated. There was about 100 people there to give their money because of the Anvil's.
At the end of the cake walk... they counted the money. Fannie insisted that the Anvil family should go in front of everyone before the announcement of how much they made for them. They were hesitant. They couldn't because they couldn't express their feelings and it's hard for me to pick a right word to explain how my community and the Family felt. It was emotional and hard to describe. At that moment, we were a community helping each others out as one.
It turned out Paul Slim donated punks and raffled them out and turned out it made couple hundred dollars just that time. Counting the cake walk was at least probably one thousand. It was amazing.
That wasn't only it. Moravian youth group had raised money to go to Tunt for AMYF for couple of months. They had raised two thousand dollars to pay off their air fair. The group had decided to do something else than go to Tunt last week. All had decided to give up the trip and give the money to the family who really needed it. I was touched and nothing else could be said. Fannie let everyone who was involved go in front and one by one they gave the two thousand dollars to the Anvil's family. The Anvil parents were crying.. and everyone else was crying. Thinking about it.. it's still emotional in a wonderful way.
Today... I'm proud to say I'm from Kasigluk and my community is my home.
2 comments:
Whew...I was so relieved that we were going to give our money to them. I was so touched and I was so happy for them. I was praying too. I prayed that something like what we did would happen. Kiikwa GOOT BLOG!!!
Me, too - I'm proud that Kasigluk is my home, a place where people care about each other and take care of each other. I think God did that.
I enjoyed your reflection on it.
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