This blog will detail the experiences of my girlfriend and I as we begin a new adventure. We work in Canada’s newest and most northern territory, Nunavut. We will be significantly north of the Arctic Circle.
We have both been teachers in Toronto for two years. Very early in our relationship, we found that we were both interested in teaching in different locations around the world. Living and teaching in the multi-cultural world of Toronto have engendered a natural fascination with other cultures and traditions.
Initially, we discussed the possibility of finding positions in Africa. However, upon further reflection, we decided that there was much in our own huge country that we had not seen or experienced. The far north certainly offers a very different culture from the one that we have both been a part of in southern Canada. Going to the north also provided an opportunity to help ease a teaching shortage that currently exists there.
I think the final deciding factor was my brother’s partnership with a woman from Nunavut, with whom he adopted an Inuit baby girl. We would both like to learn more about the culture in which she will be raised and the language that she will predominantly speak at home. Jennifer and I hope that the Inuktitut language is easier to learn than it seems at first glance.
We have both been teachers in Toronto for two years. Very early in our relationship, we found that we were both interested in teaching in different locations around the world. Living and teaching in the multi-cultural world of Toronto have engendered a natural fascination with other cultures and traditions.
Initially, we discussed the possibility of finding positions in Africa. However, upon further reflection, we decided that there was much in our own huge country that we had not seen or experienced. The far north certainly offers a very different culture from the one that we have both been a part of in southern Canada. Going to the north also provided an opportunity to help ease a teaching shortage that currently exists there.
I think the final deciding factor was my brother’s partnership with a woman from Nunavut, with whom he adopted an Inuit baby girl. We would both like to learn more about the culture in which she will be raised and the language that she will predominantly speak at home. Jennifer and I hope that the Inuktitut language is easier to learn than it seems at first glance.