Less Interesting—Wait for a better post next week. (May 20th, 2011)

Sorry, this is a less interesting entry. I have pics to put up, but I can’t today. They’ll have to go up next week at some point, so most of the more interesting things that happened will be described then.

I moved! I left behind the cute apartment that I was housesitting in to move in with an older Guatemalan gentleman for a few weeks (he’s my boss’s husband’s boss). IT IS AMAZING. Every time I come home I feel like I stepped out of the Arctic and entered Central America. His house is brightly coloured, with amazing Guatemalan art and carvings everywhere. He is as lively and hilarious as you expect an older Guatemalan fellow to be—I already love it. Except his internet sucks; nonetheless, what he lacks in internet, he makes up for in TV (both in size and quantity of channels) (side note—there’s nothing quite like watching the game on a large screen after having to watch it on my extra tiny laptop) (second side note—Tes, that had to be the weakest Grey’s finale in a long time. Seriously? Anticlimactic after last year). Louis, the Guatemalan guy, had his Latin American friend Maria over last night, and listening to the two of them banter—it made me second guess my decision to go north instead of south for a moment. Luckily I’ll get my fill while I’m here. He is going to make us a Guatemalan-Inuit dinner tonight—caribou tacos. Haha. Kinda I guess.

To move, I took a cab. That’s right, there are cabs. Two of them. They generally shuttle people back and forth from the airport, and around town if they so desire. It’s $5 from anywhere to anywhere. Take that sucky Vancouver meters!

Also I had sushi the other day, which was amazing! A girl who lives in the building I lived in treated me to sushi at one of only two restaurants in town, the other being the hotel. Her boyfriend is the chef at the “Sugar Café” and saved some for us, as it typically is gone first thing in the morning. It is great sushi, but it made me think of cheap, fresh, CHEAP Vancouver sushi (and you find no Vitamin T up here, Alissa). Nevertheless, it’s nice to know that if I’m dying for a sushi fix, it can be taken care of.

It is seriously warm, and the roads are completely clear. I’m going to start running soon (if not next week, the week after, though right now I’m in this amazing fitness class run by the mayor’s wife at a local elementary school. It’s a class of 15 young ladies that are either from “the South” with a few Northerners, but literally zero Inuit women. That’s how I realized there were so many/any “qallunaat”, Inuktitut for white people, here in Rankin. More on this in future posts).

So they do this cool thing in the end of June called something like the “Sun Run”—but it’s done at midnight, because it will be 24hours of light for a while in June. It sounds amazing. I will train for this (though I have no idea how long it actually is), I’m sure it will be weird and awesome. (Andrea, lets find a run to do when I get back).

I watched a pretty good film the other night with some colleagues; it’s called “The Snow Walker”. Parts of it are filmed just outside Rankin, and it’s a pretty beautiful story. Also, randomly, Michael Buble is in it. So weird. Anywhooo if you’re too hot at some point this summer and want to cool down, maybe give’r a watch, it shows just how beautiful the North really is (and some of the harsh realities that come with it).

Oh yes, I almost forgot, this weekend is the annual FISHING DERBY!!! It is extremely exciting—it is pretty much the biggest cultural event of the year—gov’t employees get a half day off today to prepare for it. Should be interesting, I’ll probably just watch though.

Well, I warned you. That was not only not very interesting, it was also not that informative. Next week will be a better post (maybe). Also, thanks to those that let me know that they are reading, sorry that I subject you to a ridiculous amount of details. I’ll try to let you know at the beginning of each entry if I think it’s worth reading… I’m sure my mom will read regardless. :D See y’all!