We’re here

 

We arrived in late afternoon Tuesday and it was almost dark by the time we headed down to the Inuglak School. The school bus driver picked us up and brought our luggage to our lovely little  house about 500 yards from the school. People have been super welcoming and it’s really “warm” apparently - only -15 tonight.

This is the view from the front steps of the school as I left at the end of the day today! Saw an arctic hare as big as a dog! But it was too fast for me to get a pic! Will take some time to blog more on the weekend. Busy at work-

Oh yes, and the school secretary’s husband caught an 8 foot Polar Bear and she was skinning it all day yesterday. Can’t wait to see it when she is done. 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The accident was not so little and required a flight out

Image
So the call came from the Heath Centre that we needed to fly out to have Ian's wrist looked at.  All the travel was arranged and we hitched a ride to the airport with the local RCMP.  Great guy! You can see that we are quickly aclimatizing as Ian isn't even wearing his hat to go to the airport building from the car.  At the airport, it was great to know about 1/2 the people.  Pretty easy to get to know people in a 450 individual Hamlet.  Some of them were quite anxious.  We were asked if we were leaving.  Southern educators have literally left in the dark of night before.  Just packed up and left.  We reassured them.  The plane is in the next picture. The plane seats 22 people and was about 1/2 full due to COVID.  The flight to Rankin Inlet is only about 15 minutes.  Then we needed to go directly to the Health Centre there for the typical  hospital hurry up and wait scenerio.   They did another x-ray and discovered that his wrist was actually broken in two directions and even t
Read more

Sundays in Whale Cove

Image
This was our first Sunday in our new home!  We went for a walk down to the harbour and there was a great view of Hudson Bay!  It was a windy Day.  The Weather App told us that with the wind chill it was -42 celcius!  Kids were tobogganing without covered faces.  Everyone who goes by waves and says hello!   We discovered that the COOP which is the one store in town is not open on Sundays, so we decided to head back after we stopped at the Bay. Then we had a call from the DEA secretary. She is the District Educational Authority secretary.  Sort of like a local set of Trustees.  Her daughter works for CALM Air and had let her mother know that our shipped goods had arrived.  So  Agatha, the secretary called the local bus driver and asked him to fire up the bus and head to the airport to pick up our stuff.  We have no vehicle and the airport is about 7 km away.  The other option we would have had was to check what the local RCMP was up to because they are happy to help with airport pick ups
Read more