Written by Joyce, our Guest Blogger, who recently spent 3 weeks visiting us in Tulita.
- learn how to play video games
- assist in fleshing a bear skin
- participate in D&D role playing and characters (Dungeons and Dragons – for the uncool uninitiated)
- challenge your hosts to various board games – count on losing
- do jigsaw puzzles
- sit back and read about Canada’s North, or for the bookclub
- walk along the beach every chance you get – fabulous, no matter what the weather!
- take photos of Bear Rock – beautiful, no matter what the weather!
- photograph the wildlife at the dump
- create art from driftwood, grasses and/or beach rocks
- enjoy CBC – with local news about the north and Dene language broadcasts
- go to boot camp, and think of excuses not to go to boot camp
- join the sewing circle and benefit from the Elders’ advice
- throw a line in the Great Bear River close to where it meets the Mackenzie
- struggle with filleting Maciek’s freshly caught northern pike and relish the taste
- enjoy stimulating conversations
- wave at every car and quad that passes you
- help harvest potatoes
- hitch a ride with friends on a quad
- pick bog cranberries and learn what walking in a bog is actually like
- nap
- try to figure out how to spell the soft lovely sound a raven makes when it flies closely over your head (and double it when there are two…..)
- enjoy views of the mighty Mackenzie
- learn how to make and knead pizza and bagel dough and how to cook them from scratch
- learn how to shoot a gun
- Gasp at the prices at the Northern grocery store and BJ Services
- visit Faye’s office, see photos of Naats’ihch’oh park, and see all the critters who get caught on the wildlife camera
- take a tour of the town to the end of the road
- watch movies or a great series like Handmaid’s Tale
- marvel at the muckiness of mud
- throw a stick for Ali (Faye’s boss’ dog), and throw it again and again and again…..
- get a violin lesson from Faye and Maciek – on a blue violin
- harvest veggies from the garden
- marvel at the magic of the aurora borealis!
- watch the miracle of beer birth, burping included, and tasting too!
- cook something with star anise
- find a moose jaw – and bring it home to someone you love
- enjoy a place where love lives
- admire Tulita’s fashion scene
- enjoy Faye and Maciek’s friends
- be inspired — write a blog