I've been lucky enough to have been invited to a few Greenlandic dinners, plus as a great lover of food, I've also visited many restaurants here. So here's a short story about food in Nuuk! Coming here, I was pretty curious about what
I guess this is a fitting spot to talk about my project, as I'm heading towards halfway of being here. So, what I'm doing is a project with women who have been through sexual abuse, trauma and to use the big word: rape.
You might have noticed I complain about the weather a lot. It's kind of my thing. The weather here is also incredibly changeable, one minute it's one thing and the next, it's another. Last weekend it suddenly went from dingy, gray and suffocating
More raven stuff! It's been snowing again like almost non-stop so I've had a lot of time to watch the ravens. Oddly, there was one evening when the weather just cleared up in the middle of a snowstorm and it looked like... spring.
(Note: people photographed in this post aren't connected to my project.) Oddly enough, sometimes people here in Nuuk remind me a lot of people in Japan. It could be the looks; many simply look Asian. There's an Indonesian exchange student here who I
In this post, I'm just gonna babble about random stuff and post more pics from the cruise because I already told the story of the cruise and that was kind of it. Here are some geology pictures first. It always astounds me. I
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