11 Days!

This is our first test entry of the blog we're planning on keeping while we journey up to Taloyoak, Nunavut for a year of teaching grade seven. We were granted the positions at the end of May and are moving up in a very short eleven days to our new home. All of our effects were shipped up at the end of June and we're just hoping that they get there before we do. I don't much relish the thought of sleeping on the floor for a few nights while waiting for all of our furniture to arrive via barge order.

We also managed to squeeze in a big non-perishable grocery order on the last ship headed to our new hometown. It's much cheaper to get items shipped in by boat, but there is only a brief period of the year where the ice melts enough to allow ships through. Even though we ordered at the beginning of July, we won't receive the items until sometime in September.

Over the next few days before we leave, Jon and I are just trying to get in as much time with friends and family as possible- including a Jays game this weekend we are both excited for! Obviously we both want to be out in the summer heat as often as possible too. Come the end of August, we can expect to have frost on the ground in Taloyoak, which might be quite a shock to the system.

We fly out on July 25th from Toronto. In Toronto we'll also be meeting up with Sarah, who is a new hire music teacher as well. From Toronto we go on to Edmonton to spend the night. Then we catch an early morning flight to Yellowknife and finally make the last five hour trek to Taloyoak, where our principal will pick us up at the airport.

That's all for now! The rest of the blogging will continue either closer to the flight or upon arrival.

Family pets playing amongst boxes. They will not be accompanying us. :(