Day 5- Home Time

Last night was the best night I have ever had. I saw the northern lights and saw a load of nocturnal animals. Here's some pictures of the northern lights:

These are some pictures from our protest:

My flights leaving soon so I'll see all you guys when I get home or as the Inuit would say I love you ᓇᒡᓕᒋᕙᒋᑦ Nagligivagit/Nalligivagit

Day 4- A Day in the Life of an Inuit

17th June 2012

I spent my WHOLE day doing Inuit things:

7:30- I woke up with the sun bounding through the windows. It got a little darker last night but the northern lights appeared so it wasn't as dark as I had wished.

7:45- I finally got out of bed and 

it took all my energy, I knew today would be the day I would hunt my first seal.

8:00- I got dressed into my new clothes that I don't really like that much but I suppose it will have to do.

An example of a jacket I wore.

9:00- After having soup for breakfast we headed off. We snowmobiled for an hour across frozen sea to the floe edge, where the ice melts. It's a serenely beautiful landscape of icebergs, blue-tinted snow and patchy sea ice. The air is incredibly pure and the deep peace is slightly unnerving.

10:30-Tulugaak showed me how to make a spear and spear a seal he says he isn't going to pressure me into killing one but he would love to see me do it. I think I might then at least I can call it a life experience.

11:00- I finally killed a seal!!

12:00-We had some seal for lunch and I really enjoyed it. Tonight I am going to the oil rigs for a protest. FUN! And then we are going to take pictures of the northern lights and just sit and watch it. I can't believe I'm leaving tomorrow I don't want to leave I have become such good friends with Ataksak but especially Ataksak's brother Tulugaak, I have always got on better with boys.

Day 3-Pictures

Today I took pictures.

 The view from the plane

 Arctic Fox

 Mountain Goat

 Owl

 Polar Bear

Stoat

Day 2- The Fun Starts Here

15th June 2012

We never went to the cinema last night because I fell asleep and I apparently don't have the right clothes to go out in. I should be over my Jet-lag today and Ataksak said she would let me borrow some of her clothes until her mum makes me some clothes. They aren't the prettiest clothes in the world but as long as the keep me warm. Did you know we aren't allowed to call the native people Eskimos any more? Yeah well i made that mistake as soon as we came here and Ataksak gave me into trouble as did the rest of her family :(.

Last night for dinner we had caribou meat and it was nearly raw, I don't really like a lot of meat at home especially rare but now I'm here eating a weird animal meat that is rare. I want to spit it out but I suppose I will have to get used to it. I'm off to try my new clothes on now I'll update you later.

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OMG the film was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G I didn't think I would enjoy the film as much as I did. I met some more friends at the cinema. Their names are: Uki,Ukiuk and Tuuq their names are so hard to pronounce and will take some time to getting used to, I bet I will have just learned their names by the time I'm leaving Can you believe it's day 2 already?! What do you think I will be having tonight for dinner? 

I had Seal for dinner, Tulugaak Ataksak's brother says he's going to teach me how to hunt a seal and a caribou one day, I don't know if I want to but it will be good for when I come back soon as I will be. Mum if you are reading this you should get a job out here it's Grrreat the only thing is it's so very very cold and that's not an exaggeration but you get amazing pay and it is such a small community you know everyone although they all have weird names but our names must be weird to them, Do you want me to see if there is a job going?

The water in the house(not igloo) is warm. They have to get their water delivered by a heated truck every day so it doesn't freeze. The houses are off the ground so that the heat doesn't melt the permafrost and sink and also the pipes are off the ground.

Right I'm off to bed. Night.

Day 1-Arriving in the Tundra.

14th June 2012

Today I arrived to the cold bitterness of the Tundra, Baffin Island to be exact. I don't think I wrapped up enough I am Baltic. You would never think a place in the world could be colder than Scotland it's weird. 

When I arrived there was a young girl called Ataksak ,which apparently means Goddess of Ruler, was waiting for me at the place they call airport. We clicked straight away and I love her more than I like a lot of people at home, I can tell I'm going to love this holiday already. 

Ataksak took me back to her place where I'm going to live for the week I am here. Apparently for 2 days that I am here it will literally be light for 24 hours and it won't get dark so that means we can go out on the snowmobiles at midnight HOW COOL?! We are going to the cinema later, yeah I know the cinema! I didn't think they had cinemas either but apparently because the oil rigs have been built out there, the workers would need something to get entertained with so yeah they built a cinema. I think we are going to see the Hunger Games woo! Right I better start getting ready now I'll update you on my trip later.