*Insert goose call here*

Posted by S. , Thursday, September 9, 2010 8:24 PM

Im brain dead. I shelled out 5.15$ for cookie dough as comfort food. OMFG culture shock on so many levels: teaching grade 4 I am so completely out of my element. Same applies to teaching Math and the French language. As does teaching Cree children. I feel that the school system is just so foreign to their culture... not to mention the teacher I am replacing went MIA 2 weeks into the school year and they have had a plethora of subs entretemps. I had almost zero work to teach them for 4 periods today. Tomorrow is teach Sam Cree and a field trip to the river.

I bought my triple overpriced milk at the Northern. Drank chunky milk. Josh double checked, it was indeed chunky. Returned it.

The geese have started flying South. The goose is... very very very very important in this culture and this community. Geese logos are everywhere, tamarack geese decorations and paintings, stationary, shirts... many geese. So I witnessed what happens when a flock flies overhead: everyone stops, looks up, points, watches, runs outside, and people (I don't just mean kids) begin making very accurate goose calls.

I felt a little awkward so I stopped and stared as well.