{"id":457,"date":"2015-12-27T10:33:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T17:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yangdidi\/?p=457"},"modified":"2016-03-12T15:18:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T23:18:25","slug":"skyleen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yangdidi\/2015\/12\/27\/skyleen\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyleen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/155751163\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/155751163\">Skyleen<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user29596326\">Kelsey Doyle<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>When did you first hear about the typhoon, before it hit? Did you know that one was coming?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the typhoon hit my place like &#8230; tonight, then I heard like yesterday. It&#8217;s like, Hey you know that tonight the typhoon&#8217;s going to hit your place? And I was like oh, okay. It&#8217;s like, I don&#8217;t really &#8230; I thought it&#8217;s not going to really strong or &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>So you weren&#8217;t worried?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like I&#8217;m not really worried that much.<\/p>\n<p><em>You were in Palau?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m in Palau.<\/p>\n<p><em>When did you hear that it had actually &#8230;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The next day. Like &#8230; the night it hit my place, and the next day, and then it&#8217;s really calm, that&#8217;s what they say. So, I saw a lot of pictures on Facebook and &#8230; a lot of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>What was that like, seeing those pictures?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I saw those pictures, it&#8217;s like &#8230; it&#8217;s not real. It&#8217;s like a dream, it&#8217;s like I saw something that&#8217;s not real. I saw the pictures and it&#8217;s really like &#8230; makes me &#8230; I tried not to cry but, there&#8217;s a feeling &#8230; I feel that, I wanna cry and then like &#8230; It&#8217;s good that I cry and then, it&#8217;s like I don&#8217;t feel like I want to eat. I just want to be in my room, I don&#8217;t want people to talk to me, &#8217;cause I was in dorm. And then &#8230; I don&#8217;t know if I was going to think I can still feel that, I still can feel that feeling that happened to me or that I feel that time. It&#8217;s really weird, you know.<\/p>\n<p><em>Were there other\u00a0people from Ulithi with you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Me and my cousin, Viola, and the others. But we don&#8217;t really &#8230; like asking for the other islands, but our island, because this is our &#8230; Falalop is the one have the airport. So the plane came, and the pilot take pictures, and then came in the plane\u00a0and take pictures &#8230; So when I took those pictures, really specific and it really &#8230; make us really feel bad.<\/p>\n<p><em>How long was it until you could talk to your family?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in Palau and I haven&#8217;t talked to my family until my dad came to main, to Yap main, and then he contact me on the phone in the office, so we talk and just, I just ask my dad, &#8220;So how&#8217;s my family? How&#8217;s the family? How&#8217;s mom? How&#8217;s my nephew? How&#8217;s the baby?&#8221; And a lot of &#8230; He say, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, they&#8217;re fine, you just try to finish your school and then you come.&#8221; I say, &#8220;Well you make sure I come, &#8217;cause I can&#8217;t take this anymore. I can&#8217;t focus in school. It&#8217;s really bothering me,&#8221; so, he say, &#8220;Yeah I promise you will come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>How many days was it after the typhoon before you talked to him?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe &#8230; two weeks after.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wow.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t &#8230; I haven&#8217;t talk to my family or contact my family or see my family for, like &#8230; one week after the typhoon.<\/p>\n<p><em>So you didn&#8217;t know if they\u00a0were okay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know if they were okay or my mom died, or one of my family died &#8230; I don&#8217;t know. I just like asking those people, and like &#8230; &#8220;Have you know something about Falalop Ulithi?&#8221; and they say, &#8220;They say that they&#8217;re fine.&#8221; They don&#8217;t mention about my family. When I ask them, they say that &#8220;They&#8217;re fine&#8221; and this and this, and how&#8217;s your family? &#8220;They&#8217;re fine &#8230; &#8221; so they don&#8217;t mention about my family. It really hurt and I don&#8217;t want to think about it, so I went and trying to sleep, and think about it, and crying, like those &#8230; so I keep on asking, look on the Facebook, went to Facebook and asked people if they&#8217;re okay. The saddest part, during the typhoon, all of my dad&#8217;s Aunty, like our grandma, passed away during the typhoon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Louisa told us she was with her. I&#8217;m sorry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s fine, it&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you see &#8212; when Amos flew over and took the pictures, could you see your house?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No. It&#8217;s like it&#8217;s really hard to see the spot of my house, only some houses, a lot of houses were &#8230; So I, I just asked my dad when we talked to each other, like talked to him, like I&#8217;m in Palau and he&#8217;s in Yap so we talked to each other and contact each other. He said, &#8220;We&#8217;re okay.&#8221; So just tell me where were you guys when the typhoon hit you guys. &#8220;We&#8217;re in the hospital.&#8221; Within the hospital, the winds and the water, the winds really hit the windows and break all the woods and break the doors. They don&#8217;t have to lay, because there&#8217;s no space, they don&#8217;t sit down. They just stand. They didn&#8217;t &#8230; do something to relax their legs, they just stand and hold the babies and holding the older.<\/p>\n<p><em>Your grandmother, she didn&#8217;t die from the typhoon. She was already sick?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I think because of &#8230; sick, and panic, and the people really heard the &#8230; a lot of things. Loud, the winds comes up, breaks all the doors and the windows, so it&#8217;s kind of &#8230; weird, so &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>So you talked to your dad two weeks after the typhoon. How long before you were able to come?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Um &#8230; if we&#8217;re going to talk, like in May &#8230; and then &#8230; I forgot the typhoon, but I talked to him about May something, and then June 1st, I was in Yap.<\/p>\n<p><em>I think it was March 31.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>March?<\/p>\n<p><em>Yeah.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh my goodness. That thing was in March?<\/p>\n<p><em>What did you do when you saw them?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I just came to Yap, like on June 1, and then June 2, and then I flew from Yap to here. When I just, on the plane and I looked down, it&#8217;s really like something really moving me. It&#8217;s like, really moving me. And then, that really &#8230; makes me sad, but when I see Falalop, this island, and &#8230; the other people, because only me from Falalop on the plane, and I was really crying &#8217;cause I&#8217;m the only one from there on the plane, and I was really crying and holding my mouth and covering my face and trying not to, I don&#8217;t want the sound to come out, so I just hold my breath and cry when I &#8230; and I don&#8217;t want people to see me crying, so I just cover my mouth and then &#8230; trying to make no sound. When they looked back and then I was pretending I&#8217;m okay, but I was really hiding my face that time and &#8230; and then, when we land, then really, it was crazy, look here, &#8220;What? What? What?&#8221; That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m saying. &#8220;Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!&#8221; The others, they&#8217;re not really like that, they&#8217;re just like, &#8220;Oh yeah!&#8221; and just laughing. Like they&#8217;re really kind of &#8230; they&#8217;re okay, because of my island and they haven&#8217;t seen their island. I was like &#8220;Oh my gosh, oh my gosh&#8221; I had not really like this. And then I tried to like, I wiped the tears and I made my face\u00a0really calm as I\u00a0could. So when I got out from the plane and I heard people clapping and like, &#8220;Oh Skyleen,&#8221; I was really smiling, but inside me, there&#8217;s a feeling that really &#8230; and then, when I just saw my dad and then I went to my dad and then I hugged him, and it&#8217;s like I&#8217;m laughing because I don&#8217;t want to cry. Only us and then I&#8217;m going to cry, so I&#8217;m just laughing and I don&#8217;t want people &#8230; It&#8217;s like, I want to cry but I don&#8217;t want people to like laugh at me, or something like that. So I just hold my crying like that, and then when I saw my mom came with a lei to welcome me, and then I went to my mom and I hold her. Then I was like, laughing and &#8230; and then they just like, &#8220;I will come back. We miss you.&#8221; I just went last year, and then I just came June 2nd.<\/p>\n<p><em>And you&#8217;ve been here since?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;ve been here, like when I graduate from high school, I just graduate and then I left, and then &#8230; I went, and then I come, but it&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you think you&#8217;ll go back to school? For how long?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I want to stay for a while, but my mom and my dad, they want me to go to finish my education and come back, so they told me that, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry. We&#8217;ll be fine. You just go. We&#8217;re just concerned about your future and your brothers and your sisters, because only you is in school now.&#8221; Because my older sister and older brother and youngest brother and the youngest sister, they&#8217;re like &#8230; my older sister and brother, they don&#8217;t have, they just go to, they drop out and they don&#8217;t want to go and &#8230; it&#8217;s like that. They fail or something like that, so my older brother, the one him and then me, he&#8217;s still in high school, it&#8217;s like remain, remain, remain. Keep on firing from the high school. But only me, he&#8217;s kind of older but I just came and then &#8230; I don&#8217;t really drink and chew and I don&#8217;t do drugs, so that&#8217;s why I feel it&#8217;s really that I go to school.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to finish my education &#8217;cause I want to support my family. My mom and my dad are kind of old, and then &#8230; I still have a sister that&#8217;s in elementary now, and I have a nephew. A lot of kids. I can&#8217;t wait to finish my school so I can support them.<\/p>\n<p>During the typhoon I can &#8230; after the typhoon, it&#8217;s like I feel something weird inside me. It&#8217;s like make me &#8230; I don&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s like it&#8217;s a dream, it&#8217;s not true. It&#8217;s really &#8230; I don&#8217;t know. When I just look around, it&#8217;s like it&#8217;s not Falalop. The way I left and come back again, it&#8217;s not even same. I really want to work hard to move around, like working in a community but cannot &#8217;cause, there&#8217;s no shadow that you can rest, and it&#8217;s really hot. You can see people now. Their skin is really dark, it&#8217;s burned from the sun. If you want to walk over somewhere and if you&#8217;re tired, there&#8217;s no shadow if you want to rest. It&#8217;s really hot. People are sick and heal again and get sick, but they keep on trying to heal the community, the island from them, it&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Is there enough food for everyone?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s food because of some people, like outsiders, they sending like &#8230; they give their support, like bring rice and FEMA. That&#8217;s it. The FEMA that &#8230; that came now, it&#8217;s kind of enough but not really. I don&#8217;t know, maybe tomorrow on and then people will be okay for the FEMA.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think about the impact of the typhoon on the reef?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the what?<\/p>\n<p><em>On the reef?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Um &#8230; I don&#8217;t know, &#8217;cause they say that there was work on the,\u00a0you know, we stop fishing, I don&#8217;t know, &#8217;cause they told people not to fish here. Nowadays, I don&#8217;t really eat fish. I don&#8217;t know why. And I believe that my brothers, they really good in fishing, and I don&#8217;t know why we hardly eat fish, unlike before. I think there&#8217;s a &#8230; &#8217;cause we, we also want our reef to be good, so we also need to protect our reef by not catching a lot of fish.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you like doing the science?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I really want to protect the reef, as I know the reef can protect the land. I like it. It&#8217;s fun going in the ocean and the water. Like looking around, it&#8217;s really fun and beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Skyleen from Kelsey Doyle on Vimeo. When did you first hear about the typhoon, before it hit? 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