Arctic Bay (Sep 27/04) - Eighteen-year-old Jeremy Attagutsiak has plenty of options: he's nearly finished high school and coming to the end of an outstanding career with the Arctic Bay cadets, he has been thinking about going away to university or college in the south.

"It's going to be hard staying away from home and not going hunting," says Attagutsiak, who was taught to hunt by his father.

Nearly every afternoon he goes out to Victor Bay and waits for a seal or goes ptarmigan hunting. He expects to return home to hunt every summer if he goes away to school next September.

Enroled in two high school courses, he attends school in the mornings and works at the computer centre in the evenings.

Getting involved in extra-curricular activities has appealed to him for quite a while. In six years with the cadets, he has won numerous awards and has worked on projects with Nunavut Youth Consulting, a group which tries to make life in isolated communities easier.