The
day began with our class waking up to a dreary rainy day. Although we were allowed an extra hour
of sleep, many students were dismayed to find many of their belongings
drenched. Despite the soggy
conditions, the professors did their best to keep us happy. En lieu of our planned outdoors
activities, we had no choice but to resort to our secondary plan – The Platt
Historical Nature Center. At
the center we saw many interesting things such as a huge, venomous centipede
and other various skins and pellets from native animals of the park. After an insightful and informative
lecture and video presentation by one of the rangers at the center, It was time
for us to take a brief quiz over our most recent reading, pertaining to the
cross timbers of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The rain was still pouring so the group headed to the
beautiful new Chickasaw Community Center.
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| Chickasaw Cultural Center |
There,
after enjoying some lunch at the surprisingly inexpensive and delicious café,
we were given our first assignment, taking notes and drawing interesting things
in the museum. This was followed by an essay assignment. After an hour of exploring, we were
given our next task- to draw informative perspectives of the built landscape
around the four-acre campus.
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| Chikasha Inchokka’ (“Chickasaw house”) This traditional Village is a one-of-a-kind recreation of a real Chickasaw village |
Once
completed, we laid down our work and discussed what we had taken out of our
time at the Center for quite some time.
That marked the end of our studies for the day, which meant it was time
to relax and cook dinner for the remainder of the evening. The sky was still spitting so some of
the weaker students (Will Prescott) went back into the town of Sulphur for
pizza while others roughed it back at the campgrounds and eventually started a
big enough fire to cook dinner.
The rest of the night was spent reading and telling ghost stories before
returning to our soggy tents to sleep.
Will and Emily
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