There she blows

This one is going to be a short one. I had a post written out last weekend ready to upload and the laptop had a freak out and bye bye went my writing.

My bible, Drew bought it for me at the library.

Let me tell you about the language of Inututuk. Being that I am a person who has only ever tried to learn French, the native language here is like nothing I have ever heard before and to make it worse I am told that every community has different dialects. Oh man. Here have a listen. Not sure is this video is North or South Baffin Island dialect but you will get the general idea of the mountain I have to climb to retrain my brain. I now wish I had focused a little harder on learn French as I have also been told that the French speakers pick it up much quicker.

The girls at work tell me I am doing well with learning, but the Q's and R's are going to be the death of me.

By the way, qanuippit (how are you).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGAbctSHuY (Have a listen)

On Monday we experienced our first blizzard. Drew walked backwards halfway to work, while I laughed about how hard it was stand up and about the general all over craziness of mother nature. 

We had winds up to 70km/hr and 2 feet of snow in about 5 hours. Locals tell me that the wind brings the warmth and it seems to be true as we have now been sitting in the -20's instead of the -30's for the week. We don't get much snow here due to the lack of moisture, the snow just stays because of the cold. I am happy to say that the snow is starting to melt with the amount of sunlight that we have during the day. The sun starts to rise around 5am and doesn't set until after 9:30pm. It's funny how quickly the light has changed from when we arrived a month ago.

The first week I remember the sun coming up 11am and setting at 4pm, ick. I am still not sure how we will cope with the 2 months of dark next winter.

 The Blizzard

Almost 9am here, you can barely see 30 feet down the road.

There was only a few inches of snow this morning.

I left my water bottle outside for four hours. I love the pattern that the ice made.

Sorry the picture is a bit blurry, I had to use a delay on the camera to get the shot. This is our view of the Northern Lights. We are too far north to get the light show, instead we get the northern 'Glow'. Picture was taken at 10:30pm.