Good To Be Home But What An Experience......

OK so here it is the grand finale.......well sort of.
I have posted these pictures and I guess I have posted them from most recent to oldest. The picture to the left is the picture of Thunder Bay as I flew into the city to catch the plane to Toronto and then off to Ottawa...home. I am home now and it all seems so surreal. I am very glad to be home missed all that is here that you can well imagine. The last two days of my experience was really spent in the air aside from



Thursday night. I flew from Bearskin Lake to Summer Beaver via, Big Trout Lake, Wipekeka and Sioux Lookout. The next picture to the left is a picture I saw flying out of Summer Beaver to Thundrer Bay at a place called Lansdowne House. The church was located on that island and the homes quite a piece on the mainland. I thought it looked pretty cool. Again I am telling the story a bit backward. I got into Summer Beaver at about 5 pm and went to visit a



couple people that I had met before. Sophie was the lady in the earlier pictures that was making moccasin's. She made me some moccasins so I went to see her to pick them up and she was so happy to see me. We had a nice visit. She had told me that her husband had been killed in the airplane crash that I had written about earlier. Her son works at the Nurses Station and the picture I posted below she wanted me to show her son, she was pretty pleased. I also spent




some time with Elijah as he was working the night shift. I of course wanted to go and watch the sunset one last time at my favorite spot at summer beaver.

So the picture to the left is Summer Beaver from the air.





And another one on the left of summer beaver from the air.










Just a peak from the window when we took off from Summer Beaver.










Picture of me and Elijah and Don (from the health centre, Summer Beaver) Elijah came up to the airport to say goodbye to me.. He was a really great person and I will miss him. What an artist he is so talented, I have a few of his pieces and he is truly gifted. Elijah and I spent Thursday evening learning how to use Skype....so hopefully it will work.







Another picture of Don and Elijah.......











So this is a picture of a school bus at Summer Beaver he morning I was leaving. Things are a little greener as you can see than the last pictures I posted from here. There were no leaves on the tress or very little.






This is a picture of Sophie with one of the slippers she made for me. She is such a sweet lady. We chatted for a bit and although she was not fluent in English knew enough that I could understand. She told me that it took a long time to put the decals on the slippers and very little time to sew them together.




The picture to the left again is Summer Beaver now the second time I am here nice and green. I had another offer to go fishing Thursday night as I was walking through the community two gentleman stopped in a truck and asked me to go fishing with them. They said hey do you want to go fishing.......I was quite excited but Rob was in the back of mind saying don't take any chances play safe.......so I declined. I did not know who



they were but soon found out. They told me thatone was the Chief of the Band council and the other was a council member. I am sure I would have been safe but for some reason was not as sure as with Elijah.

The picture to the left is of the sunset at Summer Beaver. I went down to watch and as I said before I am getting out in the nick of time. The mosquitoes are really bad now. I had to wear a


hat that someone bought me for my birthday and yes I looked like a freak but the bugs were well lets say dry...

Nice pic again of the sun setting in summer beaver.







Here is a picture of Bob Yellowhead an artist of Summer Beaver that I had met on my first visit and came back to see him. Here he is with hi little girl. He has about 5 kids and is a great dad. I have watched him interact with his children and he is quite loving and caring. Anyway Bob made me a few items and I have taken a picture of him with them.





Another pic of Summer Beaver in the green more summer looking then when I left.









A picture of the topography across from Bearskin Lake to Summer Beaver.









Artwork at the Nurses Station at Bearskin Lake.











Ok I put this picture here to tell you about another sad thing that occurs here in the North. As you see in the picture we have an expectant mother coming to board the plane as we were going to Sioux Lookout from Bearskin Lake. All expectant mothers must leave the community at 37 weeks often leaving husband and/or other children behind until after the birth. Another seperation from their families.



This is a picture of Bearskin Lake from the air. See how all communities are located on the lakes well hard to aoid up here I guess.









A picture at the Bearskin airport before we boarded. See the Tikenagan on the ground that someone was bringing back to the community. I saw a couple new mothers coming back from having their babies.







OK the next few pictures are of my fav's sunset. These are all of Bearskin Lake a spot that I had to walk only but 6 minutes to get to. What beautiful sunsets.

Please take the time to comment after reading this blog for the last time. I would like your feedback and to know if you were reading along. I am back in Ontario for my last 6 weeks of placement at a Family Health Team. August 9



write my final University Exam an Oct 22 write my Canadian National Exam. I have enjoyed sharing my experience with and am sad to end the blog now. I have enjoyed reading your comments an in fact that was one factor that lead to me continue to journal my experience in this blog.






Sunset Bearskin Lake










Sunset Bearskin Lake