This year, in June, the myEUROPE network welcomed the first school from Greenland. Its name is Edvard Kruse-p Atarfia and it was registered with myEUROPE by Kunuunnguaq Fleischer, the leader of all the schools located in the municipality of Uummannaq. He tells us more about his homeland and its people.
People in Greenland speak Greenlandic, which is a dialect of Inuit. Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is located at the point where the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans come together. People from other parts of the world often associate Greenland with the cold weather and darkness.
The municipality of Uummannaq includes seven small settlement schools and one school in the main town. My office is located near the “Edvard Kruse-p Atuarfia” school, which is headed by my wife.
In my young days I was a sea-man and sailed all around the world, so I am very much interested in facilitating contacts among our students and people outside Greenland and Denmark.
From August on we will set up videoconferences with five of the bigger schools and from November on the smaller schools also will be equipped with webcam conferencing. I am sure the teachers and kids here, in Uummannaq, would be very interested in communicating with Europe, and of course you are all welcome anytime to visit us. Greenlanders love having guests.
Our teaching community comprises of an American teacher, a German one and of course teachers from our local community. From August onwards two Canadians, a Norwegian and about ten Danes will join the group of the 57 Greenlandic teachers. All of them speak Greenlandic, Danish and English, so it should be possible to establish some good communication between Uummannaq and some of the myEUROPE schools.
