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2008 Youth Expedition: Cape Farewell Canada
Twenty-eight high school students from Canada, Ireland, Brazil, Mexico, Scotland, Germany,
India and the United Kingdom boarded a research vessel in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Sept. 7, 2008.
As ambassadors of their schools and communities, these students set out on a journey to observe
and interpret the effects of climate change in the Arctic. This voyage, Cape Farewell, is created
by an organization of artists who combine arts and science with the aim to raise awareness
about the environment. Their hope is to inspire the youth to share their experience and influence
the world to find solutions to this problem. For all the blogs, videos and photos visit capefarewellcanada.ca.
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I Can’t Find Any Other Feeling Like This
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
This is so overwhelming I can’t believe that I am actually here. The past few days we have been doing a lot of work with art. Mostly a lot with water color and using it in different ways. Also we have been doing are daily measurements, some of these things include: Air temp, Sea level pressure, humidity, cloud type and fraction, ocean depth, luminosity, and wind speed. I would like to mention an experience that I had up here that gave me a feeling that I have never felt before. I was sitting on a rock in Greenland enjoying the most absolute beautiful scenery have ever seen in my life, Smelling the cool, crisp, arctic air and all of the smells of nature just really living in the moment. When it dawned on me that in 50 years that view will no longer be there unless we change. Not a lot of people will get to see what I’m seen so I am really going to try to get the word out there to help persevere this absolute beautiful landscape. Miss you all, I hope all is well see you in 9 days
Posted by Nicholas R.
Invermay School
Invermay, Saskatchewan
New Way
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Today we had 2 landings, the first we went to an old glacier. We talked about our personal art project, and then got some alone time, I decided to go crawl under some tree’s and just listen and taken in what was going on around me. It was so quite, I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything like that, just complete silence… Something I’ll never forget. So we were sat in a valley where a glacier used to be, all that was left was a deep, empty river bed and at the top of the mountain where the glacier used to be there’s just a hole, and some dirty snow with a little tiny stream from runoff.
For our second landing we landed in a village called Tasisuaq with less than 100 people living there. In a way it reminded me of home, the smell of the ocean, the small very bright houses. It looked a lot like something you would see around the bay. We also got to see their school; it had 3 class rooms that were about half the size of one of ours. It was such a cute community though, there were painting done by the children all over the school inside and out. When I was there I just went and sat down by the ocean and took a few minutes just to think, I thought about what it would be like to live your whole life like these people do. It hit me that these kids we met in the school will live most of their lives so isolated in this tiny community, I couldn’t imagine living a life like that; today I found a new way of looking at things, and a new appreciation for how people live.
Posted by Julia P.
Holy Trinity High School
Torbay, Newfoundland
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