June 28-29

Some slightly overdue photos for everyone. (; These are a smattering of landscape shots, people, and interesting objects. I hope you enjoy! If anyone has specific requests for objects/locations/etc. they want to see, just post or email me with a comment or question and I'll see what I can do! We might loose our internet for a little while, so I'll be posting whatever and whenever I can - Sorry folks! It's going to be a bit erratic! The teachers will still be able to post some of our material on the polarTREC website, so be sure to keep checking both places!

My messy bunk space : P

Marisa's and my dorm room

One of the many Greenlandic wildflowers (I don't know the technical name for this one, sorry!)

CAUTION: MUSK OXEN AND REINDEER MAY BE RABID!!!

Okay, not really, that's just the foamy result of some microbial activity in the nearby salt lake. Tee hee. :)

The bone of a large animal; possibly musk ox or reindeer (caribou)

A view of the salt lake with the glacier in the background. We'll be visiting the ice sheet tomorrow!!!

The Americans attempt to spell "JSEP". It didn't work so well. >_<

Shelly "Shynes" Hynes, NSF Einstein Fellow, and me! (Rocking the "multiclava" headband!)

The lovely salt lake nestled in its surrounding rocky terrain.

A musk ox footprint on the lake shore (with human prints for scale).

A view into the hills across the lake.

A lone (and very curious) caribou trying to get to the lake (we were in its way).

Looking across a meadow of dwarf willow & birch to see the glacier.

The cozy town of Kangerlussuaq.

The airport

The airstrip (but no LC-130's - I'll try to get one later)

Some "glacier swept" rock faces surrounded by dwarf birch and willow.

Our relative location to the rest of the world (or most of it) :)

Bonus! A few new vocabulary words (with approximate pronunciation):
Haluu [ha-loo] (Greenlandic) - Hello
Morgenmad [Morgen-mad] (Greenlandic) - Breakfast
Frokost (Greenlandic) - Lunch
Aftensmad (Greenlandic) - Dinner

Some fun sentences:
Tuttuttut tututtut tuttutut tututtutut tuttutuuttut. - Dirty reindeer hunters who are eating reindeer as dirty reindeer. (It's like Greenlandic Morse Code!)

Nalunaarasuartaateeranngualiornialikkersaaleraluallaraminngoorasiinngcontaq. - They were talking about making a little telegram station.