A full week since my arrival in Pangnirtung. Life has been full but with some time before heading out to church will give a bit of a re-cap.

Work has been moderately busy as in an acting supervisor position have both Pang and 2 or 3 other communities and a few new social workers in them.  Also just introduced is some post apprehension legislation to Nunavut with very detailed court docs and time lines. Sat in on a phone conference teaching session on Friday and must admit the brain was reeling abit afterwards. So the learning curve is high for all and the thing is only here for a month...

Added is a little “ on call “ and meetings in the regional govt office in Pang,,,the BLUE building… every hamlet has one! Social service vehicle get us around. This bridge connects the two areas of Pang and last spring the old one on the left was washed out by spring melt. Sign gives walkers the right of way on single lane bridge. Morning meetings are held at the health center with this 830 AM view across the fiord and occasional stops at the Northern store for groceries. ….even picked up one small wall hanging. Back lanes and different light conditions make for good photo shots.

But what keeps me sane I think is the walks or sking on the ice.   These one are around sunset about 6 PM with the mountains and town in the background. One evening encountered these kids on their skidoo. Back into town aged 6 and 10 year old driving.  A full sized machine and short kid...same one that put hands in air on previous picture on my blog, tried it on machine and I told him to keep hands on controls

Saturday morning the weather was sunny and clear so could not resist a 2.5 hour ski on the fjiord. About 1 hour each way and minus 20oC. Snow is hard and wind blown captures this skidoo track. In piles of ice near mouth of river due to the changing tide levels ….a totally different world.

Below are a few of the short videos I took

  (attempted to splice all together but the final version too large to download )

when skiing on the ice.