So..Browning went well. It slowed down towards the end of the week but things were good. On Sunday we planned to head out and drive to Rocky Boy. Unfortunately it had snowed all night on Saturday and we had large amount of snow in our "drive way" blocking us from the plowed roads. We weren't sure if we would get out but after a bit of shoveling and maneuvering we made it out so we packed up and were on our way.
In Rocky Boy we were staying in a gym type room with a kitchen in the back. It is part of Stone Child College which is also where our tax site was. On our first day we headed over at noon (the site opened at 1). Unfortunately we didn't find the woman we were supposed to be working with until around 1:30. They gave us a room and handed us folders full of peoples information and said to do taxes...it was weird.
The project has continued to be weird. I have been at tax sites all week but in the past 4 days I think I've only done one actual tax return....it's been slow. Nobody seems to know that we will be doing taxes in their town.
On Thursday we drove to Fort Belknap just to have a tax site in the afternoon and then keep traveling to Wolf Point. It turns out the woman we were meeting in Fort Belknap didn't know about us until the day before, and while we were setting up our site the director of the building came in quite upset because he was not aware we would be using his building. He tried to scare us by telling us the roads would probably be really bad for our drive later, but we had a couple people show up at the site so we stayed and did their taxes. That is until 3ish when another woman came in and said the roads were bad. She said they were all leaving work early and the roads were down to one lane. Of course we quickly rushed out so I drive wouldn't be too terrible. But...we think she just said that so we would leave...the roads weren't bad....
Anyways, now we are in Fort Peck/Wolf Point. We are staying in a church and for the first time in Americorps I have my own room. (we're sleeping in Sunday school classrooms). Unfortunately that means that we have to be up and packed bright and early tomorrow before class starts. We will be heading to Ashland.
...hopefully they're expecting us!
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