More Christmas Games

Tonight after getting my door knob replaced (yeah!) myself and another teacher who is staying up here for the holidays ventured down to the Christmas Games at the gym. Tonight, the Northern Store was 'hosting' the games ... and there was prizes, candy and toys flying all over the place.



In the Knot untying game, if you rolled a one on the dice you got to run to the middle and untie one of the knots in the rope. Who ever unties the last knot wins the game.



In this game, we had to roll a two to be able to run to the middle and un-tape a nail before hammering it into the chunk of wood. Who ever is the lucky one to hammer in the last nail wins the game.

Oh, how I loathe my Door

Oh, door knob?
Why must you hate me so?
Freezing up and locking me outside is not acceptable.
Neither is locking and then not unlocking.

I have tinkered with you to no end,
Trying to make you work nicely,
Alas, you choose not to work completely.

So I have called the handyman again
and they are going to bang you around until you work.


So yes, yet again, my door knob is on the fritz . I don't know what it is with door knobs these days and me. Sigh. With any luck it will be fixed in a little bit (this is only the fourth call to housing today to get it repaired. Let's see if the fourth time is the charm :-) )

What is my next step? Probably calling up Holmes on Homes and pleading my case for his need to come up North (I know, I can dream and wish).

Hide and Seek

Although I am pretty sure many of us have seen this before (I think I got it in an email over the summer) ... it has finally hit a 'newspaper'.


Mmmm, looks like dinner time


I'm gonna getcha

The Daily Mail (a UK Newspaper) reports on a "Chilling game of hide and seek with a hungry polar bear".


UPDATE: for any one curious, I have found what I believe to be the originating site / post of these photos that the Daily Mail is using : Alaska HDTV: A Bad Day at Work and Alaska HDTV Podshow Flckr Stream.

Garbage Bag Twisty Game

One of the games played tonight at the games I've dubbed the "Garbage Bag Twisty Game". Essentially, a garbage bag (or two) is tied together into a figure eight shape and with a partner you have to pull the bag from your head down your body and then pass it on to the next team. Which ever team has the bag when the music stops is out.

Update from the North

Nothing much has been going on up here in the frozen land of Arctic Bay. The weather ... well.. has been pretty craptacular as of late. Temperatures can't quite make up their mind wether they want to stay below 40 or above -20, which is causing all sorts of weather drama - ice fog, snow and of course the wind. Oh how I hate the arctic wind - it just burns the skin.

Christmas games are going along as planned, I hope to get down to the gym tonight to watch some more (if the weather doesn't turn on me again).

I've been getting more lessons prepared up for my classes that start in January - oh, it's gonna be a wonderful month of grammar, grammar, and more grammar (hope my students will enjoy it).

What have I been up to? Well, the same'ol same'ol. Listening to new tunes, reading and of course catching up on my TV shows (how I love being able to get my TV on DVD now .. so much easier, especially when the satellite up here goes on the fritz and I can't get any TV).

Past that, I've just been relaxing and enjoying my last couple of days off .... as soon, it will be back to the grind of edumacating.