Madeline’s Reflections on the Summer
Madeline Snigaroff, who joined the team for the 2018 Summer Intensive in Anchorage sent us this update in November. It’s been four months since I left Anchorage, and I now find myself… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Oh the Places You’ll Go
Cameo Post: Meet Will Monroe (Again!)
Will Monroe, who made a short cameo appearance in Anchorage for the 2018 Summer Intensive wrote about his summer experience in July 2018. Aang, everyone! Will Monroe here, and I’m back in… Read more »
Birds of St. Paul Island
This year the WAYK Summer Language Intensive is taking place on St. Paul Island, Alaska (Tanax̂ Amix̂ in Unangam Tunuu), nicknamed the “Galapagos of the North”, a name true to… Read more »
Announcing WAYK’s Summer 2016 Intensive: Atka, Alaska!
After many months of preliminary planning with our host community, WAYK is very excited to announce the details of our 2016 Summer Intensive! This summer, the WAYK team will be… Read more »
Guest Post: WAYKing up Unangam Tunuu
This summer, WAYK (Where Are Your Keys) creator Evan Gardner, Susanna Ciotti, WAYK veteran Sky Hopinka and two language-loving interns, Casey and Robyn, battled unpredictable airline schedules and dreary weather… Read more »
Call for WAYK Summer 2015 Interns!
This summer, we are excited to offer three WAYK internship positions that will be sponsored by our host community of St. Paul Island, Alaska through APIA and ACSPI. Participating in… Read more »
WAYK Summer Intern Expectations
What you can expect as an intern: You will learn how to use WAYK. One of the main purposes of the WAYK Summer Intensive is to provide a comprehensive training… Read more »
WAYK Summer 2015: St. Paul Island, Alaska
WAYK is thrilled to finally announce the details of our 2015 Summer Intensive! After many weeks of behind-the-scenes work with our host community and organizations, we can officially say: we… Read more »
Why You Should Intern for WAYK! by Julia
1) You’ll meet cool people. If you want to get to know really awesome people, working on language revitalization projects is a great place to meet them. Together with my… Read more »
Julia Stiles: A preview of Kodiak Alutiiq
This past week, I was lucky to have the opportunity to fly up to Alaska and meet the community with which Will and I will be working over… Read more »
Will Monroe: Summer Intern
Cama’i, everyone! My name’s Will, and I’m the newest addition to the Where Are Your Keys intern crowd. I’m in Kodiak with Julia, working with the Alutiiq language community. This… Read more »
What “Where Are Your Keys?” Did for Me.
After spending 5 weeks with Evan, while he was working with my language community, the opportunity came up. Evan asked me if I would like to go with him to… Read more »
Part One: Chinese Wrap Up and Decolonization in Language Revitalization
Sky Hopinka wraps up the summer trip to China and discusses topics that have come up regarding WAYK, language revitalization, and decolonization. Sky also wants to say that he is… Read more »
Alina earns University Credit for WAYK at Portland State!
The best part of summer has to be no school and homework to get in the way of me focusing on Hunting Navajo and gaining fluency in Chinuk Wawa. My… Read more »
Meet Melissa
Blog 1: What did WAYK at PSU give you? I was a Senior at Portland State University in my second to last term when I decided to attend a Chinuk… Read more »
WAYK Travelogue: Sky and David in China – Part 6
Xianqi on a Train Our next project was to go to a small town south of Shanghai called Dalan, or Dalanzhen, and work with a group of teenage volunteers who… Read more »
WAYK Travelogue: Sky and David in China – Part 5
Getting to the Party at Chuangwei Elementary School The rest of our time at Chuanwei was exciting and interesting in finding ways to implement the game. We got set in… Read more »
WAYK Travelogue: Sky and David in China – Part 4
Brother, ima Bassist I didn’t have enough Mandarin to be able to speak to anyone but a few people and hunt from the friendliest of players, and I mostly took… Read more »
WAYK Travelogue: Sky and David in China – Part 3
These Colors Don’t Run Basically, why we were in Fangshan was that the Principal runs a school for the children of under privileged migrant workers, the Boshi school. She was working… Read more »
WAYK Travelogue: Sky and David in China – Part 2
We Took the Long Way Home and The City Country We had a day of recovery before we were set to go to Fangshan for the week. David and I took… Read more »