Dear Diary,
Today my family had a potlach because my sister got married yesterday. This potlach will go on for 3 weeks. I am already sick from all the food that I ate. My brother and father will go fishing tonight for tomorrow's dinner. I wish I could go with them but father won't let me go. Mother asked me to help with dinner.
See you soon,
Amitola
Dearest Diary,
My grandfather has passed away and I am feeling very sad. Tomorrow we will take him to the Land Of The Souls. Our canoe can fit four people and my grandmother would like to come so we are inviting my aunts, Asdza and Aponi to go on with my grandmother. We will canoe out to the mountain and give his soul to the Land Of The Souls and prey that he will be reincarnated. I am getting to sad to write.
I will let you know how the trip goes later,
Amitola
Dearest Diary,
The Land Of The Souls was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. We let my grandfather go after we all prayed. It was like a professional ceremony. I miss my grandfather a lot and I hope he comes back. He was a highly-ranked man so now we have to have two potlaches in a row. In three days mother says that we will make a totem pole for him. I think I am going to ask father to carve a fish because grandfather loved to fish and there are so many around here. My family is extremely artistic and I love to paint the totem poles. We are thinking about making a new totem pole at the entrance of our house and maybe carving my grandfathers face on it. Life is ok right now besides the fact that my grandfather is gone so now I don't have stories to listen to at night. I am very depressed so I won't be writing for a while.
Till then,
Amitola
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