Yellowknife

61 degrees fahrenheit

Okay, so I started chapter 3 today with Mary Rose (in Dogrib), and it seems to be coming along okay.  The chapter is called “around town” (kònta k’èts’eddè) and it’s a much easier topic than cooking.  I mean, it’s much easier to construct a dialogue about “I have to take my grandma to bingo at 7:00″ versus “please pass me the elongated rigid instrument with which to slice the compact round squishy object repeatedly.”  So disaster averted.

A lot of the places around town have entertaining names.  The grocery store is the “we-eat house,” the bank is the “money-grows house,” the hockey arena is the “house of metal shoes” and the hospital is the “it-hurts house.”  I also noticed, just walking down the street, that the vehicle licensing office literally says, “we write on paper so that you drive your truck”.  Makes sense, no?

I’m feeling about 90% better now, though still a little lethargic.  I think I’m going to go out for dinner.  For a hamburger.  And a beer.