Bienvenue à Chesterfield Inlet!
This past week, we welcomed a newcomer to the community.
Etienne now has a new boss, Mario. He came from Montreal to our little community. His girlfriend, Lise, will join him in a few months and we look forward to meeting her then. I think Etienne is looking forward to being able to speak French more regularly now. The last little while he’s been saying that he’s starting to feel “rusty” in his french. I find this hard to believe as his first language is french, but I’m sure it has to be hard for him not to speak it at all up here. Now, I’m sure you’re wondering why I don’t speak french so we can speak it at home? Well, we tried to teach me, and it just didn’t work. I’m impatient and easily frustrated and so is he, it usually ends up in a “heated” discussion between us. We have agreed to leave it until we move back down south and I will take french lessons from a professional and be able to practice at home. In the meantime, I still continue to read our french recipes and all of our spices/baking goods are in mason jars with labels that are in french. So I know how that much in french! lol. But, you never know, since Mario and Etienne speak both languages and from what we understand, Lise isn’t fluent in English, I may be able to pick up a little more 
. Anyways, as I totally digress from the actual topic. We took advantage of the (very) warm weather yesterday and went out fishing with Mario. It must be newcomers luck because he caught 2 trout and we caught nothing!
We really hope they love this community as much as we do. Bienvenue à Chesterfield Inlet. Au plaisir de te rencontrer, Lise.
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The above photo is me and her. You probably had it all figured out anyways. We are about to live a once in a lifetime experience, The Great White Canadian Arctic. We have decided to create this blog to keep our friends, families and curious strangers abreast of our adventures. I'm sure a few misadventures as well. All while living in Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut. Read on to see what it's all about!
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August 8th, 2010 at 14:31
Good luck with picking up a bit more of the French language while up there.
August 8th, 2010 at 14:32
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa… hold up… Etienne is French?!
August 8th, 2010 at 16:44
It’ll be like your very own French immersion!! Take full advantage!!
August 8th, 2010 at 22:11
Hello Carly et Étienne.
J’ai très hâte de vous rejoindre . Je veux apprendre l’anglais pour pouvoir ¨faire jasette avec toi Carly.
Je suis confiante que nous allons Mario et moi vivre une belle aventure à Chesterfield Inlet et aussi une amitié avec vous deux.
A très bientôt
Lise
August 9th, 2010 at 21:49
Hello Carly,
Depuis que Mario m’a parlé de ton site je le lis régulièrement et te trouve très intéressante; de plus, tu parles un anglais assez facile à traduire.
Continue ton beau travail…..
Une lectrice assidue !!!!!
August 10th, 2010 at 15:48
LOL, I love Michael’s comment. Poor Etienne, we’re always picking on him aren’t we…… well at least we are leaving everyone else alone if we are picking on Etienne. LOL