Our flight took off this morning at 8:30 sharp and lasted about an hour and a half again we were flying first air and we recived yet another complimentary breakfast!! As we got closer to Clyde River the view outside of the plane window was astonishing but this time (as Allison would like to add) the clouds looked more like clotted cream this time around.
When we arrived at Clyde River airport we were welcomed by Will steger and his expedition team and the Canadian Mounties who gave us a ride into town. After splitting up into our host families' houses which worked out quite well with our personalities! While we (Mr. Johnson, Dalen, Jeff, Chris, and I) were feasting on lasagna and hashbrowns, Allison was being interviewed with Will Steger for a radio broadcast which will be aired on a local Minnesotan radio station this weekend. So you should all keep an ear open! We then went to watch an igloo building contest between Simon and Luki who are two of the inuit members of the Will Steger expedition.
While the igloos were being constructed we met some local youngsters and jumped off of 10 foot high snow walls and they showed us some pretty cool tricks!
The principal of the school gave us a tour of the town and met up with some more local kids that were ice skating on the packed snow which we thought was pretty interesting. 
3 comments:
Man, who does the writing. I feel like I am reading a National Geographic Article. Did they show you how to build an igloo? Did they test it by standing on top of it? Do the kids at the school have any kind of different subjects they learn, like about thier hertiage, culture, survival? C ya soon.
joe
you've got writing skills boy. i enjoyed your blog.
Lisa
Greg why do you ask so many questions?!?! haha and thank you for the compliment about the writing! Yeah we watched the igloo making, and hopefully sometime this week we will go out and build our own and stay in it overnight...at least thats what one of Inuit expedition members wants to do with us. No they didn't test it by standing on it unless they did it while I was inside of it. I haven't had any time with the students because it is a weekend but in Iqaluit they were required to take French through ninth grade and other than that it mainly choice on what classes they want to choose!
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