Editing Covid 19 personal whereabouts (section)

=Kingston in Isolation=

The reality of returning to Canada as an international student, during the Covid-19 pandemic, was- while I acknowledge my privilege of being able to stay safe and healthy- rough for me. 

Once back in Ontario, I was stuck in my tiny in Kingston apartment by myself, without a university campus to go to, or access to the regions in which I would have to conduct my fieldwork. 

I wrote a lot. 

In the year that followed, between my return to Kingston in the late Summer of 2020 and the Summer of 2021, I worked on what would eventually become the testimonial reading of Gjoa Haven’s voices of Thunder.

By June 2021 I had to return to the Netherlands for family matters. During this latter trip, I was offered an affordable apartment in Amsterdam- and decided, considering the ongoing uncertainty of Covid-19 pandemic to accept it. One month later, In July 2021, I received the news that we could travel to Nunavut again for fieldwork, and Canada slowly started to open up again. 

From July 2021 onward, I continued my PhD in a state of flux. I would come to Canada for fieldwork, and spent an average of six weeks up North each trip. I would then stay, on average, another six weeks in Ontario. Usually I would spend up to twelve weeks back home in the Netherlands, before I would return again to Canada. 

This rotation was possible because of being awarded a Canada Graduate Vanier Scholarship, and my decision in September 2020 to purchase a campervan: "Butter". As a result of these two events, my time in Canada took a completely different shape in comparison to what it had been before. 

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You have found a way to '''"Return to Cut 1"''' and learn more about the creative outputs, through which we were planning to share Gjoa Haven's Voices of Thunder.

Alternatively, you can accept an '''"Invitation"''' to tag along and take a ride in "Butter". This ride will allow you to learn about the opportunities that Covid-19 brought to my research, before returning to Cut 1.</div>


<span class="return to-cut-1 link" data-page-title="Multiple Voices" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="return">[[Multiple Voices|Return to Cut 1: Voices of Thunder]]</span>

<span class="redirective invitation link" data-page-title="Conference_calls_from_the_road" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="invitation">[[Conference_calls_from_the_road|Invitation: Thinking from the Road During Covid-19]]</span>