[2] In the fifth cabinet of Kim Kielsen, Motzfeldt was the minister of education, culture, church and foreign affairs.
Each Christmas, she and her siblings went back to their hometown of Upernaviarsuk, an experimental site for agriculture in southern Greenland.
She spent Christmas at her childhood home until she was 17, when she went to the United States on an exchange study.
She returned to Greenland to study to be a teacher in Nuuk.
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