Todd: So Abidemi, you were a
in Canada. correct?
Abidemi: That's Todd.
Todd: Now, where did you ?
Abidemi: I in Northern Canada in a province called Nunavut.
Todd: Nunavut.
Abidemi: Nunavut.
Todd: Nunavut. Wow is it like a Americans type ..?
Abidemi: Yeah, and except we call Inuits.
Todd: Inuits?
Abidemi: Aboriginals and First Nations.
Todd: So what was like?
Abidemi: I really liked it. It was great. Very different from parts of Canada. Very cold because it's in the far north, and the communities are very . Very few people live there. In the particular were I lived, there were about a thousand people, maybe less there. So everything has to be shipped in, or in by ship that comes in the summer when the oceans , and then in the winter, they usually fly them in, so food was expensive, housing expensive. Yeah, it was a different experience for .
Todd: Wow, what's life like that north?
Abidemi: Life happens, and it's interesting how it is to what we have down south in Southern Canada, the other parts of Canada. Like they have TVs and similar housing, but you do have to be careful when water because the infrastructure is a little different. The ground is frozen, so they don't have indoor plumbing. They have plumbing but they don't have running water. The water has to be to each house almost every day and sewage also has to be taken away, so you have to be careful how you use water. That's one part. Also, you don't get access to all the things that you want to buy. Sometimes you go to the supermarket, and maybe all the bread is , or the milk has not been flown in yet, so you have to be with that as well, and you don't get the same variety of as you would get in larger places, so yeah, and as winter ... As you get more and more into the winter , it gets darker earlier, so maybe four o'clock in the afternoon it's already dark outside, and by the time you go to work in the mornings , when going around seven, eight o'clock, it's dark outside, so like ... it's dark a lot.
Todd: Wow, what was it like in an environment where you had so sunlight?
Abidemi: It was hard, but I kind of feel like, I'm used to it. I took vitamin D to help with that. So, yeah, but because I was working for the most part, I didn't feel like it was too hard, and then during the holidays, I would back down south to my family, so I wasn't there too much during downtimes. I spend part of Christmas vacation there, and that was nice. They had a lot of activities outside for community members: ice sculpturing, winter games on the ice, Inuit games, different things like that. So it was fun. It was really an experience that was culturally . If I could say that for me. I really it. I really, really enjoyed it, though there were as well. The and the fact that if you wanted to go to other places that weren't in the , you had to fly , so it's very expensive to go .
Todd: Oh, an experience. Sounds cool.
Abidemi: Yes, I loved it and I would like to do it again .