Feburary 17- Arctic Doug Writes with New Friends and Answers
Hi Everyone! We will be leaving Tuktoyaktuk today, although we’ve met some nice people up here. Yesterday we met some kids-a few of them are 5th graders. Here they are in action!
Can you guess what their favorite thing to do is? That’s right-Hockey, Hockey, Hockey! There other favorite things to do are gym, science, and math! They do have recess at school, and they have both indoor and outdoor recess. When I asked if it was too cold to go outside for recess they looked at me like I had 3 eyes. For them 40 below zero is perfectly normal so it would be weird not to go outside for recess!
They loved the camera and I told them about Charlie and the 109′ers down in Chicago. They thought that was cool and send a big HELLO!
On the way up here we saw two fox. They were pretty far away, they like to avoid trudging through the deep snow and walk on the frozen river, but tend to stay toward the treeline so they can scram if they sense danger. We saw one of them almost get a ptarmigan, which is a type of bird found around here.
Last night was Saturday night. We decided to celebrate by getting our truck stuck in the snow!
We’ve heard of a local legend that tells of a group of people called the “little people”. Remember that Inuit means simply “the people”. Well, the little people used to live among the Inuit until they became embroiled in a bitter arguement-at which the “little people” took leave and have never come back. Most everyone around here claims to have caught a glimpse of the little people, so we decided to check in on our igloo. It sounded like a party was going on (it was Saturday night) so we decided not to disturb whatever was in there!??!
Can you guess what their favorite thing to do is? That’s right-Hockey, Hockey, Hockey! There other favorite things to do are gym, science, and math! They do have recess at school, and they have both indoor and outdoor recess. When I asked if it was too cold to go outside for recess they looked at me like I had 3 eyes. For them 40 below zero is perfectly normal so it would be weird not to go outside for recess!
They loved the camera and I told them about Charlie and the 109′ers down in Chicago. They thought that was cool and send a big HELLO!
On the way up here we saw two fox. They were pretty far away, they like to avoid trudging through the deep snow and walk on the frozen river, but tend to stay toward the treeline so they can scram if they sense danger. We saw one of them almost get a ptarmigan, which is a type of bird found around here.
Last night was Saturday night. We decided to celebrate by getting our truck stuck in the snow!
We’ve heard of a local legend that tells of a group of people called the “little people”. Remember that Inuit means simply “the people”. Well, the little people used to live among the Inuit until they became embroiled in a bitter arguement-at which the “little people” took leave and have never come back. Most everyone around here claims to have caught a glimpse of the little people, so we decided to check in on our igloo. It sounded like a party was going on (it was Saturday night) so we decided not to disturb whatever was in there!??!
posted by Arctic Doug and the 109'ers at
9:35 PM
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We would like to share a legend with you from our town's Middle School, Lincoln. Enjoy!
It is about a clown who had just come from a carnival or circus. This was way before Lincoln School was built, but it happened on the land that we build on. There was a clown who had a circus locker and the story says that he hung himself from the hook in the locker or the beam in the locker. Anwaar, thinks this is kind of a "silly, stupid" legend. It seems to be missing details. Some of us think it is real, some of us think it is not. The legend says that if you go into the bathroom by yourself you can hear the clown laughing. It haunts the six grade floor that we are about to go into next year, if Ms Randolph lets us go :)
Paulina and Jonathan were wondering how the truck got stuck in the snow if the road is mostly solid ice. How long were you stuck?
We have to write back later.
Thanks for the info.
The 109'ers
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