Join us and experience the Northern lights of Nunavut, Canada

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  Description

  Have you ever seen the beauty of the toundra blooming, the whiteness of a mighty blizzard or dancing aurora borealis in the sky? Come visit our northern city on Baffin Island. No road linked, so flying or sailing will be the way to meet us :) A unique cultural experience in Canada's North

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Teaching

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  At home, we speak French, but we all know English, a bit german and a few words and songs in Inuktitut. We live in a multicultural city (with 4 official languages in Nunavut : Inuktitut, English, French and Inuinaqun), with a some of traditional Inuit activities organized by local associations. For exemple, every April is a igloo building contest and dogsleed races during the Toonik Time Festival. Reading on the Nunavut and its people will be a open mind and polite thing to do before visiting this land.

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  We are a fun family who love to met new people from around the world, travelling, sharing dinner with friends and going camping. Our 4 kids are happy easy going children and are trill to met travellers from all around the world. They love swimming and camping.
  
  We are looking for persons who will enjoy playing with kids, going outside and helping in the house (like cleaning, playing board games, cooking, etc. ).
  
  Our kids enjoy skiing, biking , building Legos , board games and would love to learn music instrument (they did drum dancing and fiddle during summer camp) and to play outside.
  
  We like to bake bread, cake, lasagne and to make our own dill pickles.
  
  During weekday, the workaway usually babysit some hours per day, play out with childre n, and help with house chores (washing dishes, loundry, sweeping...) and have plenty of time for discovering the city and hiking into the tundra and do his personnal hobbies.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  French: Fluent
  German: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
  You can contact them directly for more information.
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  Accommodation

  Our guest will have his own bedroom.
  
  We love pasta, veggies and meat. We appreciate when our visitor help with the preparation of some meal and it is great when he/she/they enjoy it with us. All meals are included for during your stay, and we asked our kids to eat all their plate, so we expect the workaway to show good example by not being picky eater.
  
  He/She can use a little Internet, not excessively (it's limited, expensive and slow) and, travellers are expected NOT to use any screen (cell, phone, tv,...) on their time with the children and family. Their is NO Internet coffee shop or public Internet acces in town, so if a traveller require lot of Internet data, we suggest him/her to buy a personnal cell phone with datas.

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  What else ...

  We are located close to Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park (Iqaluit River), which is renowned for it's river and natural landscape. Fishing, camping and geocaching are all possible during summer. We have a public swimming pool in town, library, few restaurent/coffeshop, etc. If the helper want to discover dog sleeding, skidooing or go see the floe edge from the frozen sea they can hire a local Outfitters. The helper is encourage to visit Nunavut's web site for more infos.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  Hours expected

  About 20 hours per week

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