When we arrived back in town we were welcomed with open arms, or should I say paws.
Puppies, puppies everywhere. So cute, you wish you could take them all home with you....
On a very beautiful late August day we decided to go for a walk and take in the beautiful vegetation growing in the Tundra.
You would be surprised how many beautiful plants and flowers there are up here.
Taqa and his gift to us, a whole caribou leg. We consider ourselves very lucky, as it's not everyday someone gives away this much of a good thing. As the locals would say "Mamatuk" (yummy)!
Halloween
A couple of Neil's students were lucky enough to get to carve our pumpkin. I think they did a great job carving out a likeness of Neil.
Neil went all out this year and dressed up as a grandma. He was quite the hit at school.
To make my students happy, I went with their suggestion and dressed up as my alter-ego thethe wicked witch of the North.
The cutest monkey ever!A Beautiful Winter Day
We decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and headed out for a long walk.
James, Sophie, Baby Noah, Neil and I headed out around the lake.
Having to work at the student residence every 2 weeks, we haven't had many week-ends off to hike. We really enjoyed this day out.
Igak, James' dog joined us for our walk.
It's days like these that make us really appreciate where we live.
The view from our front door of our first snowstorm of the year. The Premiere of Quebec, Jean Charest, came up to Kangiqsujuaq to officially open Nunavik's first Provincial park, Pingualuit. Pingualuit is the site of a very large crater which was left by the crash of a meteor some thousands of years ago. This was a very important day for our small village, as it was the first, and probably last time a Premiere will visit.
Our little friend Putalik taking in all the excitment, with Charest in the background.
In honour of the premiere's visit the town held a feast at the gym. Here Neil's former pupil Suzanne holds Noah (James and Sophie's baby).
Fellow teacher Christina and her family dig into some raw meat. There was tons of traditional food, such as raw caribou, whale blubber, seal meat and my favourite bannock.
Here is a close up of the raw caribou. Neil got an opportunity to taste this Northern delicacy of raw caribou dipped in whale blubber. He said it was very interesting. I got to taste seal for the first time, and to be honest it will probably be my last :)The day did not end with food, as there were also several performances.
Beatrice Deer, a popular Inuit singer.
Local students doing some Traditional Inuit Dance
The throat singing was amazing. Everyone should have the opportunity to see this live.
Local Tradition
This was one of the weirdest things we have witnessed here. On December 1st, people get in their vehicles , Christmas music is played over the FM radio and everyone drives around the village in a parade procession. We took part this year with the students from the residence. This picture does not do justice to the sight of the traffic rolling through town.
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