Drop the Pop, Sunsets, and Canada Goose makes it better!

Aula class getting busy on a strawberry smoothie.

         March madness, seriously.  I thought February evaporated out from under us but March went poof into the ether.  Nunavut has a "Drop The Pop" Campaign that gives funding to schools that want to run a week long healthy beverage initiative.  So keeping with the McThompson DTP from Qik, I reinstated the smoothie contest but made it bigger and better.  Each class submitted a recipe, the Aula class got their volunteer hours making and distributing each recipe during 4th period each day to the entire school, and each day we included a healthy snack.  The winning class(es) win a smoothie party worth $200!  We culminated this event with an Inuit Games Fun Friday where I announced the two classes with the top number of votes.   

Inuit Games are something else entirely.  I participated in the leg wrestling and had my butt handed to me by a grade 9 student.  I feel like there is definitely a strategy involved there that I don't have the slightest clue about.

Girls Inuit leg wrestling action shot!

Action shot!

Then there is the finger pull, where you link middle fingers with the other guy, one of you takes the defensive position (the guy in the green) and one of you takes offense, and you literally pull until the other guy's finger gives out and then you switch.  Now I'm not entirely sure if it is the amount of time you hold on or if it's who gives out first.  I will get clarification on that one and get back  to you.

This looks like it hurts so bad.

Handsome Nigel.  He wasn't at the Inuit Games.  He's just handsome.

So handsome.

 I got my Canada Goose package in the mail today and although the pictures are too bright and slightly unfocused you can see that my NEW hood has toggle pinchy things that slide up and down my hood strings.  The hood is also significantly deeper.

...dirty mirror...shhhh don't tell my mom!

 The hood being so deep, in order to make it manageable the put a strap on the back to allow for it to be shortened or lengthened at will.  They also double lined the hood making it that much warmer and better than the previous hood.  Well done, Canada Goose.  Well done. 

NEW HOOD!

AND THEN... I thought I'd show you the 8pm sunset... or at least that's what time the sun went down two days ago.  It will set 15 minutes later tonight :)  We are stampeding towards 24 hour daylight! Pretty soon I will be blacking out my bedroom windows so that I can sleep.

Sunsets on the top.

Cheers from the top!