Tuesday, April 7, 2009

no shock here

The last week in quebec was a really good wrap up. As house manager, it was rather relaxed aside from all of the cleaning. On our last night Veronique treated us to a traditional Quebec dinner. Different kinds of cheese, breads, crustations and a very good leek soup. The next day was my favorite! We visited un casse-croute en nord shawinigan. I think they had the best poutine in town. and trust me. I KNOW. I must have tried at least ten different places.

We left for rotation camp on the Monday morning. It was actually more fun than i thought it would be. Rotation camps seem to be pretty boring, or at least it was last time. We boarded a bus after a few April fools day jokes. Stopping at the trois riviere house and the victoriaville house we made our way to what we thought would be a town nearby. We ended up being in the middle of absoloute nowhere. A place called St. Ferdinand. It was a presbyterian, family member of the PC i guess. Anyways! We played alot of games and just had some fun sharing our experiences!
The bus arrived at 230 am Wednesday morning. I hadnt slept this night, it seemed rather pointless. Instead i stayed awake with the help of caffeine and a shower at 2am. Arriving at Montreal to watch the sunrise we had our breakfast and headed through security to meet with another group from the area taking the same flight. Which we found out would be our neighbors in NWR.
We arrived in Goose Bay at about 4 o clock...i believe...I really have no clue what time it was. I was rather out of it. very cool place! we were met by our PC dominic. Very cool guy, i learned alot from him.
Our house is pretty big, the boys got the big room this time so each of us have our own bunkbed. The house is located in NWR but we all work in SSS. I managed to get a job at the environment office called Innu Nation. Im learning alot about the effects of climate in Labrador as well as different aspects of environment in the area. trees, animals, plants etc. Right now im starting a prject where I will be analyzing the effects of weather change in the area. I will also be digitizing all of the pictures from the community just in case of fire, so these priceless photographs will not be lost.

Im learning alot about the innu culture here and even learning to understand a little bit of their language Innu-aimon. So far we have made bannock and hung out in a hunting cabin. But im sure more will come.

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