Magnetic North: Exciting News =)

Well, we got some very exciting news in the last two days. Tomorrow morning we are moving into an one bedroom, brand new apartment! We toured the place this afternoon and it looks great. There is a great wide open kitchen-living room concept, as well as plenty of places to put our barge order when it comes in the next couple of weeks. We will be staying in the apartment until our house is finished. It is close to being purchased now, and after that it is going to need to be renovated. So when we move in there, whenever that may be, we should have an almost new interior. We're planning to get comfortable in the apartment though. Things don't tend to move very quickly here in the North.

We've had an insanely busy couple of weeks. We were working non-stop on our year plans, which we handed in this afternoon. Now that we have an idea of where we're going, the planning of day to day materials should become a lot easier. We also had Environmental Camp this week. It was a great day with good weather to get out on the land. Elders came along and showed the students how to make traditional sod houses. We also had caribou stew and bannock, and listened to a story in Inuktitut. I had a shocking look at what danger the Inuit culture is in that day. One of my students mid-story plopped down beside me and whispered 'What is she saying?' I was probably the only non-Inuit person for miles, but very few of my students, who have been studying Inuktitut for eight years, could understand the story.

Just a quick little post for now- with a few pictures of my students building our mini-sod house.