Darkness and arctic grocery

Today is the second day of the “thirty days of darkness”. There are thirty days every year without sunshine in the arctic circle. Actually there is still ‘day time’. You can see the sky color changed from pitch dark to having some daylight at noon. 今天是「三十日黑夜」的第二天,「三十日的黑夜」就是每年在北極圈連續三十日沒有陽光的日子。其實還是有「白天」的。今天十點還是漆黑一片,十一點開始天色變淺了,而十二點天其實還很白。

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Today we met up with my real estate agent Miriam. She has been living in Inuvik for 10 years and told us there is quite a big Pilipino community here. She drove us to the supermarket, her friend’s southeast asian food shop, and we also saw the road that goes to the seaside town Tuktoyatuk. 我們今天和我的地產經紀Miriam見面了。她在Inuvik住了十年了,她告訴我們這裡的菲律賓社群是很大的。她載了我們去超市,她朋友家的東南亞海鮮小店,還去了通往海邊城市Tuktoyatuk的公路看看。

After taking a break in our hotel, we went to a weekly arctic flea market and another supermarket/department store called Northmart. In the arctic flea market, people just need to pay 25 dollars to rent a table and they can sell whatever they want! There are some arctic items you can find in Northmart – seal and fox hides, snow mobiles and snow bikes. The beef jerky here is fresh and heavenly good! I am looking forward to trying different kinds of game jerkies here. A mother said “oh you little muskrat!” to her kid who was running around the department store. I guess muskrat is a sneaky cute little animal? I want to see one! 回去酒店休息一會之後,我們去了位於高中裡面的週末北極跳蚤市場,然後去了另外一家叫Northmart的超級市場/百貨公司。只需給25元大家就可以在跳蚤市場租一張桌子去賣東西了!在Northmart裡面可以買到北極特有的商品:海豹皮,狐狸皮,雪地電單車和雪地單車也有哦!牛肉乾是新鮮製造的,肉味濃郁。很期待之後可以吃到的野生動物製品呢!在百貨公司裡面有個小弟弟在亂跑一通,他媽媽說了句「oh you little muskrat」然後抓住了他。看來muskrat應該是很常見的可愛調皮小動物呢,很想親眼看看!

muskrat,麝香鼠

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