Last night I bundled up and walked down to the Community Centre with friends to check out a concert.  Tenille has been on a cross-Canada tour called ‘Play it Forward’ visiting schools and empowering the students to be great leaders.

This tour has been ‘inspiring youth to do what they do best…PLAY…and then… Play it Forward!!!’

To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect…I didn’t do any googling about Tenille or the Play it Forward tour before I left my house.  I just know that I do love live music, even if it’s a bit country… and a night out with friends is always fun! But honestly, Tenille did not disappoint this woman has so much talent and passion for what she is doing.

This was one of the songs Tenille played…and I really, really like it… there’s something about her message that not only was inspiring to the youth in the audience.  It’s inspiring to people of all ages…to take your passion, nurture it, dream big and then take that leap of faith and run with it…seeing where it will take you.  That’s some food for thought. It was a great night of music.  Tenille really loves to perform, you can see she was having a blast…singing and playing for everyone in Pang!

As she started her last song in the evening…all these young girls came up to stand, clap and dance behind her!  It was so neat to see the girls…some at first weren’t too sure they wanted to be up there…but then enjoy themselves and clap along to the singing.  The messages of “Play it forward” is to all about finding what you are passionate about daring to dream…and then just doing it!

My wish is that all these young women find that spark…nurture it a bit and see where that takes them!  

After a quick break…Simeonie Keenainak and Tim Evic took to the stage with his accordian for a little music.  I love watching, listening and then always end up dancing to Simeonie’s toons!  So it was the perfect end to the night!

One of the things that impressed me the most was how down to earth Tenille was…she stayed with the group of girls, dancing…clapping and having a great time moving to Simeonie’s music. (She’s in that group of girls in the photo to the right…)

It was such a fun night, it was worth adding the extra layers of bundling and the walk in the cold, dark night… thanks for visiting Pangnirtung Tenille, it was a great night…and I enjoyed your concert all the best with your next adventures, whatever they may be!   Thanks to the sponsor Canadian North for bringing this tour to Nunavut…with stops in Pond Inlet, Iqaluit and Pang!

I’m always amazed at how fast time flies by…I can’t believe it’s the last week of November already!  This past week has been a week of adjusting…as anyone knows after a holiday or time away from home it takes a bit to adjust back into ‘normal’ life.  Last week I finished my first week back at work…which was awesome–but busy.

I have really, been enjoying my new camera…it ROCKS! I will do a post soon all about my camera…but in the mean time enjoy some of the photos I took.

Talking to friends from Pang it seems that winter arrived close to the time that I arrived back in the territory!  It had been cold, but the snow hadn’t really arrived…but let me tell you it’s here.  So that’s been a bit of an adjustment…getting use to the cold, wind and winter temps!  After a beautiful fall in Ontario…it’s been a bit of a change for sure to jump back into winter..rather than have been here for the slow, subtle changes of the seasons. 

I took these photos on Saturday around 11:30am on my walk to the grocery store…the sun was already setting on the mountains around Pang.  Pang has ‘entered’ the period of time where the sun actually doesn’t ‘land’ in town…the sun doesn’t rise above the mountains!  So that means I won’t actually SEE the sun in the sky until mid-February when it returns–another adjustment.  

The sun is still hitting the mountains of the Pang Pass… but every day it’s pitch black by 1:30pm, and we will continue to loose daylight as we get to the winter solstice the longest day of darkness!  Pang isn’t officially at the arctic circle so it’s not officially 24 hours of darkness, but it’s pretty darn close.  So let’s just say this week about 3pm I’ve been so tired…and when I get home at 5pm I just want to eat and crawl into bed.  Which has helped with my goal to be in bed and on my way to sleep by 11pm.  (I’m a night hawk…but trying to get to bed earlier…!) 

It’s been a week of adjustments, but so glad to be back home–cold and all!  The other major adjustment was going grocery shopping I just bought what I needed and didn’t look at the prices, because that would be too much of a shock!  I just paid it and smiled as I walked home…enjoying the views of snow covered mountains around Pang…it was good to be home, I live in such a beautiful place.

(I have to work on backing up and transferring a lot of my files off my laptop because I’ve reached the “max” storage limits on my macbook pro…so need to get some stuff off of it so it can function again…hello spiny wheel of colour…oh how much I hate you! This has been a bit of a pain with processing and editing photos…so hopefully I’ll get those changes done soon so I can get back to regular blogging!)