Urban Splatter in the Hamlet

1) Follow-up to the plane: It's been confirmed by a biologist in town who is working for the Government of Nunavut at the moment on a surveying contract that the plane that landed last night and then took off was doing a military exercise.

2) Funny story about that biologist: he stayed in Pat and Dave's house here in Pond for a couple summers about 5 years ago completing other surveying while Pat and Dave were in New Brunswick. He's here doing additional surveying of the island, which involves a great deal of flying, and just dropped by the house to say hello.

Seemingly unrelated: I'd heard that a childhood friend of mine would, weirdly enough, be in Pond for a few days when I first arrived (our mothers figured it out and gave me his number so that we could visit and catch up). He's a pilot out of Yellowknife.

Can you guess where this is going? That childhood friend is the biologist's pilot and they've been working together for a few weeks.

Let me tell you, readers, the North is a small place in the neatest way.

3) One of my Esthetics students -- the same girl with the absolutely massive collection of polish/glitter/gems -- did my nails today because we were missing a Grade 7. She did an excellent job and we chatted away while she was working on my nails. This student is very close to graduating on schedule (which is fairly uncommon) and has plans of going to NS (Nunavut Sivuniksavut -- a training/leadership/heritage program that runs out of Ottawa), after which she wants to head to college to train as an Environmental Technician so that she can work in the National Park here. It was great to talk with a student who has a clear action plan and is diligently in pursuit of her ambitions.

Plus, she really knows how to make nail art!

The glitter (which doesn't glitter) is called Urban Splatter and it mimics graffiti. Very cool!

And, as follow-up, here is some graffiti in syllabics. I don't know if I should ask anyone to translate; grafitti is unlikely to be innocuous, but, for those of us who can't read syllabics, we can at least enjoy it!

"Hamlet" splatter!