TWO UNPUBLISHED BLOGS (they are old now).

The house in which I am house sitting has large windows which face the foundation for the Cathedral to be built. I may have already described it but I shall refresh your memories. Close your eyes and imagine a raised platform of white cement in the shape of a circle. Not very interesting eh, I ask. The children, and young teenagers, do find it interesting. The foundation is high enough, and hollow enough to run around inside. The younger kids usually run inside, outside, on top, during the afternoon and the later it gets the older the kids. They have also placed big wooden boards over the ditch surrounding the foundation. On the other side from where I am is situated the elementary school. It is two stories, white metal exterior, and windows that loo like ship portals placed here and there. The shape is unlike our school down south, mainly because the walls aren't flat. Rather they are angular panels which are symmetric in close proximity but from a distance you can see that the school isn't a square box, (they don't jut out like the ROM's Michael Ching Diamond), rather, I would argue, its an abstract representation of a Polar Bear.
I should say there is much space between where I am and the school. Other than the foundation there is a ditch, some shipping containers, which are often used in Iqaluit by people for storage space, residential or otherwise, and dust. Iqaluit is very dusty. Many roads are paved, but there was many which are gravel. Today there was a machine which was the size of street cleaner and whose function was to plow the gravel, to make the road even surfaced I think.

I hope that I can keep my posts coming without focusing on my work toom much because the intent is to observe the North. When you walk into North Mart is the same as any local grocery store in Canada. I like where I work because my fellow cashiers are Inuit and its cool to interact with them. My trainer Cathy, is effective because her instruction are clear and she does not condescend. The other cashiers respect her and she is the oil that keeps the team running, although she is not a 'manager'. The lesson I learned to-day was that it is sometimes better not make comments about what the customer buys to the customer. I also plan to learn words like Thank-you in Inuktitut. About half the town must shop at this store because its the largest, there is another smaller store called Arctic Ventures, there slogan is buy local. There is also the Baffin Cannery Co-op which acts as a middle man for groups of people who buy food in bulk from distributers. Many people do this to save on costs. BCC also has cheaper food in genereal though it is much smaller. Where I work, for instance milk is around $15 for three bags, at BCC it is $13. Food is expensive. $600 gets one, maybe two weeks of groceries.