TRIPS: BELIZE

Alaska | Belize | Guyana

For years, NS students have raised money to go on a trip at the end of the year. The purpose of these trips has been to share their culture and the story of Nunavut with indigenous peoples elsewhere.

In May 2004, seventeen 1st year NS students travelled to Belize to meet the Maya.

	NS students visited ancient Mayan cities and temples. Here they examine an empty tomb at Nim Li Punit.
	Wherever they travelled in Belize, the students put on performances to share their culture. Here two students, Jenna Kamingoak (left) and Lucy Angnokok perform a dance for an audience of several hundered school kids. The show lasted over an hour and the kids loved it!
	Matthewsie Ashevak shows the kids where Nunavut is.
	ParnigaThibaudeau and Elaine Lloyd of Iqaluit are swarmed by school kids wanting to get their names written in Inuktitut.
	Matthewsie Ashevak demonstrates the one-foot high kick to the school kids
	Daniel Taylor (left) and Matthewsie Ashevak demonstrate the arm pull to an assembly of kids at an elementary school in Indian Creek.
	Isabelle Takolik, along with the rest of the students, spent a morning helping students at a Mayan training school to plant corn. Corn is a traditional and sacred crop to the Maya.
	Corrine Boisvert (left) and Isa Takolik enjoying the sights and sounds of the local market in Punta Gorda, in the southern part of Belize.
	The Mayan were famous for their incredible cities and temples, dating from over a thousand years ago. Here, students climb up to the top of the highest temple at Xanatunich, one of the largest of the ancient sites within Belize.
	Here's what the ancient city looked like from the top of the temple. Awesome!!
	Visiting Belize meant encountering all sorts of exotic wildlife. Here Dan Taylor holds a huge crab while others look on in both fear and delight.

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