Thursday, April 23, 2009

Busy busy busy

The last few days have been heck tick, jammed back with some great activities. From new foods to new friends, to new experiences it's been awesome so far in Resolute. In the last few days we went to the local school meeting the president and the elders. This was a great honor because usually first time visitors of the city do not get the opportunity to meet them. Together we shared some of there experiences and life changes they lived through there life, it was incredible just to be in there presence they really put perspective on things. After wars we shared and Inuit feast, we had a combination of seal, polar bear stew, char, narwhal and caribou. Personally the polar bear stew was the best, it taste exactly like meat you would find at home, comparable to a plain rost beef. I manage to eat everything and was an experience I won't soon forget. Rite after this we went for a little hike and climbed the hill we've been staring at from the hotel. It was a 25 minute hike up and stared the whole city, it was remarkable. Afterward, we went out to an opening and got a chance to fly a wind surfer training kite, it was quite fun. I've flown many kites in my day but nothing like this. Also today in between time i got a chance too try yoga, it was different...

Today we went out ''out on the land'', which means in the outskirts of town. We took a sled called komatik which were dragged by snowmobiles. It was a ruff start because I manage to smack my camera and lost all use of it. The first stop we made was a Thule house which is a dug up home from the ancient people of the land. Secondly we went to some dunes, and small glaciers and ice burgs it was sick. We lucked out today getting weather close to 14 below if not warmer. Tonight we took it easy and joined the locals in a game of volley ball it was really fun and gave us a chance to get to bond with them a little more. As it is now i manage to get my camera partially working after a few smacks and bangs, all in all it was a great day and to top it all off

THE MONTREAL CANADIANS ARE OUT OF THE PLAYOFFS LOSING THERE 4TH STRAIGHT GAME TO THE BRUINS AND THE SERIES 4-0.

Although the last few days had many highs there was one low point. Today we say good by to Pierre one of the CANDAC members, he has been loads of fun and help throughout the trip an unfortunately he must leave to go back home, thanks for everything Pierre.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Phil

    We have been following you and your group's adventures via the Internet with great interest. So cool..

    Did you see any polar stratospheric clouds?

    What about a brownish haze on the horizon? Sometimes pollution from the south pools in the polar regions..

    Have you seen a Brewer ozone instrument yet? What about an ozone sonde? Will you be able to see a launch of one of those? Pretty cool..

    And how is our ozone layer doing this spring? Maybe you will talk about this in Eureka..

    Glad to hear you are having a great time...

    Now...concerning your comment on the Montreal Canadiens....I guess you did not get the news since you are so isolated in Resolute..

    Bob Gainey held a press conference after the 4th game loss. He outlined in detail why they lost the series. Apparently all players were so fascinated by the NEP expedition up north they spent too much time online reading about your adventures they never got enough sleep. When they asked Kovalev ...he simply said: "Yeah..we lost...But man have you been reading about those NEP students and teachers! Awesome" :)

    Have a great remainder of your adventure...

    Uncle Lewis
    Montréal, Qc

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