A Pocket Guide to Western Greenland, Version 20.11

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Everything you always wanted to know about living and teaching in Greenland (but were afraid to ask).

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5" x 8" (12.7 x 20.32 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
90 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1460924020
ISBN-10: 1460924029
BISAC: Travel / Polar Regions

Everything you always wanted to know about living and teaching in Greenland is a pragmatic, primer guide to living and working in Western Greenland.

Includes the real 411 on *culture * politics *people *language *communications *transportation *cities *weather *food *shopping *money *health *safety *sex *stuff *teaching *jobs. Now with pages of vital links, addresses and numbers to help you find what you want.

Weather

Is it really that cold? Will I freeze to death? What about the long nights and days?

When I first arrived in Greenland, it was September. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and I couldn’t understand why everyone kept saying, “Everything in Greenland depends on the weather.” Having lived through one of the worst winters in twenty years, I now completely understand what they were talking about.

First, even though there’s water everywhere, Greenland is a desert...

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More Good, Bad and Miscellaneous Stuff

Other good, bad and miscellaneous stuff that will be invaluable to you

The Northern Lights - If you’re on your death bed and wandering what you missed in your life, hopefully it won’t be the Northern Lights. This, combined with the scenery and people, is the reason you’ll want to come to Greenland. They’re just magnificent and humbling, and almost mystical when you see them. They’re easy to see, even in...

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Stuff

What Do I Need to Bring? What Should I Leave Behind? Visas?

Even though it’s the Arctic, you don’t have to go all crazy. Clothes are hyper-expensive in Greenland, so bring what you need. Remember that Air Greenland has a 20-kilo rule, which limits you in scope. Greenlanders don’t stand much on formality, so jeans and khaki’s work great. Space and weight are premiums.

The things you'll need:

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Health and Safety

Greenlanders complain about the “Danish Model”, meaning they adopted most of their societal systems from Denmark. With any common sense, they won’t abandon the health model that they’ve acquired from Denmark. You should (theoretically) be covered for most health situations. After getting a CPR number, you qualify for most services, including dental and vision. These services are free in Greenland but...

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Money

How expensive is it? What do they use and how do I get it?

No getting around it, Greenland is on par price-wise with Japan and Norway. Greenland is not the type of place where you come and expect to save money. It’s hyper-expensive.

Greenland has the same monetary system as Denmark and uses the Kroner, which is about...

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Food, shopping and lodging

You have to remember that every beer, band-aid and banana has been brought from Denmark. There are no real native Greenlandic industries, other than fishing, services, pelts and refilling bottles. There might be oil (someday) and mineral wealth, but...

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