My first week of work!!

My first week of work! Done. 

I work in a pre-school, in the morning it is an English pre-school and in the after-noon it is the Inuktitut pre-school, where they learn to speak Inuktitut. And at 3:30 the after school kids come on over, so my day starts at 8:30am and ends at 5:30 pm.  By the end of the end, I’m exhausted, literally.  Kids have this abundance of energy that I can only get from coffee. Every Friday's we clean all the toys and sanitize everything. So there are no kids that day but we still have to prepare the next week's activities and schedule. All in all it’s fun, the walk to and from work is painful and cold because they have no TTC here but again, it's interesting to see what part of my body goes numb first.  

I know some of you have been wondering what I eat and it’s all pretty much the same things as what I would eat back home.  The way it works here at the Katimavik house is that every week two people are the ‘house managers’ and they cook and clean and maintain the house while the rest of us go to our work placements.  Everyone takes turn being a house manager, in a couple of weeks it’ll be my turn.  Because everything is expensive here we are on a budget, and so to cut cost we try to make our own bread and other items.  It’s really interesting to see what people make for dinner and how it turns out.  I’m really excited to be a house manager but the only problem is that I really do not know how to cook.  And naturally the other person that I’m partnered up with doesn’t know how to cook either.  I think that week we’ll be ordering a lot of take out.

The room arrangements are that girls are on one floor and boys on the other.  With that said, if anyone has ever lived in residence, it’s like that.  I share my room with two other girls and the room across me has two girls there and the room beside me is where the project leader sleeps.  There is also the computer room (where I am typing this now) and a games room across from it. Upstairs holds two guys, the living room/dinning room and bathroom, plus a laundry room.  This is the area where everyone relaxes.  The second upstairs area holds 3 more guys and a bathroom.  The best way to explain this is to show pictures but for the month of January the house is already over the bandwidth, so next month I’ll upload them. I promise.

I do plan on trying traditional Inuit food and learning a bit of their language through their songs and stories.  And of course I definitely want to buy some of their clothes and bring it back home. I live in Iqaluit which is the capitol of Nunavut and is on Baffin Island.  When you look on the map it is the island that is shaped like an upside down dog with two heads on top of Quebec.

I haven’t really done anything exciting or unique to Nunavut expect gotten minor frostbites, so I’m really hoping that this weekend we’ll do something exciting! And if anyone knows of anything to do or has a suggestion, let me know!