Recap - Day 3

Today I went to the the English speaking service, the Inuktitut speaking service at St. Jude's, and an additional Inuktitut service at St. Simon's in Apex. Both Inuktitut services were packed whereas as the English speaking service was well attended with 38 people. I hope to start a Sunday morning choir, we'll see if the job I get allows me to do this. Interestingly, when I told one person in Nova Scotia how I was looking forward to worshiping in Anglican Church In NUnavut he said the services may be closer to Pentecostal churches. This may have been true for the service in Apex, however I learn from Brian, the interim rector, that the order of the service conformed with the evening prayer service from the Book of Common Prayer. I didn't understand them when they said the prayers such as The Lord's Prayer, however, I was familiar with the tune which they sang for the doxology during the offertory. (ie. For food in a world where many...)

During the afternoon, between the two morning services and the evening service in Apex, I went to a Church picnic or Feast at which I ate what is called Inuit country food. Numerous types of meat were available such as bear and walrus, I only tried the narwhal, seal, arctic char (fish, similar to salmon) and chicken. Some of it was cooked but if it was raw it was also frozen. When they cut the raw meat they used a certain which looks like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98857801@N00/2101302028/
From my observation, the knife is used to process the meat so that some of the fat is cut off and so that the meat is cut into smaller pieces making it easier to eat. I met many people and they were very welcoming. I met someone who had just returned from a trip to Ottawa which they had won, I though this was funny considering my circumstances. Later in the week I had another opportunity to eat Inuit country food. When I visited the Arctic College, there were hard boiled goose eggs at the receptions desk. The eggs were at least twice as large as a hen's egg and it was completely yolk, none of that white stuff. I took a bite but it was too strong, I also think it was fertilized.