“Lynette! The big boat is coming!”

August 30, 2012

After having a good dinner of spaghetti, arctic char, pizza and other random foods, a few of us went with Jennifer’s on her daily evening walk with Bubba. One thing that I like about Hall Beach is that you hardly ever walk alone. By this I mean, as soon as we step out of our house, the trail of students begin to grow. We usually have a few kids outside our house. For a week, it was the same two girls who would knock on our door (sometimes every 10 minutes!) to see when Bubba was coming outside.  Anyways, once we leave, a couple of kids would follow us on our stroll, and then kids would join once they see the crowd. I think at one point there were at least 10 kids following us. We went further outside of town today. There is one inuksuk that I’ve been wanting to see. It’s not really impressive and looks much bigger from far away, but it was my first real sighting of an inuksuk. The children told me if someone is building one and it fell, it would mean that person will die soon. It is also bad luck to knock one down.

Throughout the walk the kids were super excited about the massive cargo boat on its way to town. This was the sealift. In the beginning of the walk the ship was just a little dot, but by the end of the walk, it wasn’t very far from the coast. For most of the year, Nunavut is only accessible by plane since there are no roads and the water is frozen over. There are only a couple times in the year that people could make a purchase from down south to get it shipped here by boat. Food, household items, and large items like ski-doos are popular for the sealift. It’s a lot cheaper. Many people make these orders in June so it can arrive by the end of August/early September. I guess for many people it’s like Christmas. Probably the same feeling I will get when my stuff arrives to Hall Beach from the moving company.