Hi, my name is Jeannie Kalluk, I’m 17 years old from Baker Lake Nunavut. I’m placed in Ottawa, Ontario for NYA next. This is my second year of doing NYA. I did my Canadian phase last year in 2018, I was placed in Halifax, Nova Scotia with my buddy Geni Jaw from Cape Dorset, Nunavut. We have travelled a lot with our host mom Michelle Martin, we’ve been to Alma, New Brunswick, a couple places in Prince Edward Island and Cheti camp (placed in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia). I really miss being in my Canadian phase, if I could do it again I would.

It took 18 hours to go to Ottawa from my hometown Baker Lake Nunavut, first off, we went to Rankin Inlet Nunavut for about 4 hours. I went to go eat out with my friends and bought some snacks for the plane ride. Then from Rankin we went to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. It was my very first time going there, it’s so beautiful there! We had to go out if the plane and go through security. We went back on the plane and was heading off to Edmonton, Alberta, it was my first time going there too, more like all of the NYA participants, we were confused at first but we managed to get through the airport. We were off to Toronto, Ontario. The plane ride was pretty scary because we had a bad turbulence, plus there was lighting happening, while it happened we looked out the window, couple minutes passed it calmed down. We made it safely to Toronto. We had one hour to be there but some of the participants were lost in the big terminal, we made it on time for our flight, that was the best feeling because it was our last flight to Ottawa!

When we got to MacSkimming camp, I was really happy to see people I’ve meet last year and meet new people from Nunavut and Northwest Territories. Couple minutes past, that’s when I took a nap from the 18hour flight to Ottawa from my home town Baker Lake Nunavut.

I was at the camp for 5 days. Time passed by, it was July 4^th, 2019 when we arrived to the Algonquin Campus. That’s when we were exploring the campus here in Ottawa. It’s an awesome place to live in.

I am looking forward to going to Montreal, Quebec. One of the largest city in Canada. I hope to try their poutine and have fun activities during my time in Montreal.

Thank you, for reading my blog.

Sincerely Jeannie