Grey Thursday

My second week here in Nuuk is almost over and so I guess I should write about how this week has been. But since I haven't written about my first week yet it might be a bit hard for people to compare... However, I sort of thought that this weekend would be my "blog-weekend" where I write about all my experience and troubles and challenges so far, (don't worry, I'll write about happy stuff as well - this is not meant to be a tragic sobstory that people would get sick and tired of reading), and therefore I won't paint a picture just yet. Which is probably for the best, 'cause I'm always really tired after work and sort of in an "off-mode", leaving me to believe that whatever picture I might decide to paint certainly wouldn't be a pretty one:-S

Since I'm not writting about my week at the moment, I've put myself in the difficult position of having to come up with another topic to write about. After all a blog without inputs really isn't much of a blog at all - that much at least I get about the concept of "blogging":-)

Being Danish I really feel that there is only one other topic which I can in this case touch upon, and that is the weather, naturally. When one has nothing else to talk about one should always talk about the weather. The problem with the weather is of course that it really isn't that interesting to read about, plus by the time this input has been posted the weather will of course have changed numourous times... Still I feel it necessary to at least briefly mention what type of weather I've experienced up here so far, because I have a feeling that it's differs slightly from what one might expect from Greenland in February.

I've heard from numerous sorces that the weather in Denmark at the moment is all a bit too much, especially when it comes to the amount of snow. Bikes seems to have disapeared in the white mass, DSB-trains are most likely delayed with several days and the employees from the National Road Directorate have without doubt had their 15 minutes of fame. All in all, winter has made it to Denmark big time.

And then there's Greenland. Which at this time of the year is thought of with a shiver because of "horror-stories" of bad weather made up by massive amounts of snow, hard wind and constant darkness. All of this have I prepared myself for and none of it have I seen or experience(!) Expect perhaps for the hard wind. That we have plently of, or at least I think so, but everyone I talk to keeps telling me that this is nothing, hardly more than a mild breeze. So I guess I haven't actually experienced hard wind either, but later on I'll give an expample of an accident occuring due to this "mild breeze".

First, let me just make something clear. We do not have massive amounts of snow for Santa's reindears to roll around in. In fact, we don't have any snow for any one or any thing to roll around in. True, one does see tiny piles of grey/darkish snow laying by the sides of the roads but that's not really anything to talk about.

The weather here has since I've arrived been nothing but rain, wind, fog, clouds and utterly boring. If I didn't know better I'd say I was still in Denmark with weather like this. It's that boring. However, the wind, as I mentioned, is what I would classify as hard (not matter what the inhabitants here say). The other week it was blowing 35m/sec and that according to the Danish Metrological Institute is "a hard storm". So there!

It has these last two weeks become a habit of mine to after work walk from my office to the town's only internetcafé and to there reconnect with the world online. The café is about 100 meter away from my office and is therefore within an easy reach. None the less, on some days it has taken me about 30min to get there because of the wind. That's how hard it blows. And if that doesn't say too much then let me briefly discribe a situation that happened to my boss. Wednesday last week he took a taxi to work and upon shutting the door a gust of wind came and blew of the cardoor straigt off from the actually car!:-! Frigthening enough the cabdriver didn't really seem to surprised by it. He apperently just got out, picked up the door, threw it in the trunk and drove of. (So, who knows there may be some truth in the saying that the wind at the moment is nothing but a mild breeze...)

Anyway, wind I would say we do have but for the rest, the world seems to be in a topsy-turvy mode with Greenlandic weather in Denmark and Danish weather in Greenland:-S

And so upon that view, I conclude my input to the blog this time, only to begin thinking of what to write about next time.