Hours of Light

Prior to coming up here, when I thought of the arctic I thought of cold and dark.  Its been cold (although not really any worse than January in Ontario), but it hasn't been that dark.  Until I got Igloolik.  

The sun rose this morning around 9:30am and set again at 4:45.  So I went to work in the dark (which was a really weird experience) and left in the dark.  Fortunately I had home visits all day so I saw the sun.  The other things that's different is when the sun is up, it doesn't really go up and over head, it just passes over a bit of the sky.   The light feels a bit like the late afternoon sun, never really that bright outside.  I'm not sure I could get used to that!