Posts tagged with ‘students on ice’ (2)
Posted by Samia Madwar
on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Students try out their new face masks in a workshop on Greenlandic mask dancing
The Students on Ice Arctic expedition is over, we've made our sad farewells and are all returning to our daily routines. One thing I miss about being up North is our daily story time.
Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, mother, student, writer, performer — and, incidentally, a fellow staff member on the expedition — shared Inuit stories with us every night that we were aboard the Akademik Ioffe. To fully appreciate our surroundings as we sailed north along the coast of Baffin Island and across Davis ...
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Posted by Samia Madwar
on Thursday, August 02, 2012
Greetings from Iqaluit!
As an online editor, I'm used to shifting deadlines and last-minute projects that need to be done, finished, perfectly polished and out the door by...yesterday. It's those surprise tasks that often end up being the most interesting.
One day this past spring for example, I was at my cubicle minding my own business when our managing editor sauntered in and asked me ever so casually whether I had any plans for August. I told him I did not.
He then asked whether I wanted ...
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