Aurora Borealis!!!!!

Hey,

Last night we saw the Northern Lights and they were absolutely beautiful. I had never seen them before and they are like nothing that you can explain.

At one point they formed a ring and they that ring shot across the sky and filled the entire sky above us with this glittering green and pink. What amazed me was how quickly it changes. It was never the same for more than a second.

We all stood there watching it, many of us for the first time, and we were all in awe. We clapped when it got really amazing like it was fireworks and I think that people probably thought we were crazy.

One of lifes goals - See Northern Lights - Check!!

I will put up a picture on here but I have a bunch of pictures on webshots!

Peace!

SNOW!!

Hey,

It is snowing today. For the last week it has been creeping down the mountains all around us and today I accumulated on the ground in the town. It is snowing outside right now....huge flakes.

Ahhh....Iceland!

I posted pictures of my first snow in september, for all of you who are still warm and humid, on webshots.

Check it out.

Peace.

London and Belfast Calling

Good and Morning Everyone,

Just booked my tickets to London and then to Belfast for the week after next. Im really looking forward to seeing Ireland and I am really looking forward to getting in some warmer weather.

Today the snow was halfway down the mountain. I am estimating less than a week before we have snow on the ground here. The high temperature for the day yesterday was 5 degrees celsius. Brrrrr!

We have been having classes this week for 8 hours a day and at the end of each day we are all very tired. We had our weekly movie night last night and the movie that we watched was a national geographic film about the ocean if all of the water was drained. It was interesting but I think next week I am going to lobby for a comedy. Too much seriousness.

Alan, who lives across the hall, and I have been challenging each other to use abstract words in class. He had given me Obfuscate and Juxtaposition...I used them in an online discussion for our first class. I have decided to give him Ephemeral and Cantankerous! Good Luck Alan! Muh hahaha!

Well I will post more on my trip once I have more details and I will definitely post pictures!

Peace.

...People are Crazy...

Hey family and friends,

We here in Isafjordur have been going a little but stir crazy these days.

We are all working on group projects these days and one thing that we can all agree on is that we have group projects. Hahaha!

We have one more week of courses then two weeks of no courses but homework...some of us are heading off to get out of here for awhile. Don't get me wrong Iceland and Isafjordur are great, but you need to see new people and do new things sometimes.

Tomorrow is our last day of our first course. This first course has been great but i'm ready to more on to new things.

On another note...

I have been having an intense desire to listen to country a lot lately...i think i'm missing the valley and working on the farms this summer. AHH....summer...how I miss you.

(sings) Some beach....some where......! (sings)

(sings) God is great...beer is good....people are crazy! (sings)

Peace

Westfjords Sailing!

Hello everyone,

Just had a great weekend of sailing around the Westfjords. We had to come back early though because of the Gale warning that was posted. Sadly yesterday turned out to be a beautiful and warm day...no gale. However, we are all home and safe so thats what counts.

Our boat was beautiful a 60ft yacht. I would love to have a boat like that someday!

I took lots of pictures during the trip and they are all going on webshots right now, so in an hour or so they should be up an ready for people to look at. - http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/574630536crvnlr

I have been working on my paper like mad because I have, of course, left it until the last minute.

I have also been feeling like I need to get out of Isafjordur for a weekend or something. See new people and new things. Im sure that the feeling will pass but im thinking about maybe a weekend trip to Reykjavik or something may be in order. We will see!

Well id better go I have to go work on a group case study project; I have to read up on the planning act for iceland. - FUN!

Miss everyone.

Peace

Good and Morning!

Hey Everyone,

Just though I would post a little something before I head to school.

Today is rainy and windy here...im a bit jealous of the weather at home!

Its been great keeping in contact with everyone through email and on here and skype. (Such as small world)

Only 95 days until I come home for Christmas!!!

Everything is going well here...I am having issues getting back into school mode however. Today is the day that I will buckle down and start being productive....I said that yesterday though....hmmm!

We had a great apartment crawl on the weekend. We went from apartment to apartment so that we would all know where each other live. We had some drinks and good times at each house or apartment. It was really fun.

This weekend we have our sailing trip. We are gone from friday until sunday...so I will be incommunicado until sunday but I will have some great pictures and stories to share when I get back im sure. We are such a big class that we had to get two sail boats. Forecast for the weekend looks okay so hopefully the trip will be great. We are sailing around the Westfjords. It is educational but they say that I will be great fun as well. I don't see how it could not be fun!!

Well thats all that I can think of for now so...

Peace.

Movie Night

Hey everyone,

Some of us had a movie night tonight....dumb movie - Vicky Chirstina Barcelona. Just reminds me of how much I dislike that Javier Bardem guy...as an actor...don't really know him as a person.

One thing that the movie was good for was to make me want to go to Spain even more!!

I tried to buy a winter jacket from an Icelandic company but the size ran really small so the store took all of my measurements and are emailing all of the Icelandic Jacket companies to try and find me something. - Great service!

We had the Marine Management Symposium today and yesterday it was really informative and great to meet people in the field in Iceland.

Andrea is trying to find me someone to knit me an Icelandic sweater...i'm excited to get one.....i'm sure it will be super itchy though.

I registered my domicile today and picked up my Icelandic debit card...sweet!

Found out today that we might be able to get a portion of our rent back each month from the government. If that turns out to be the case some traveling is in my future.

Actually tonight at the restaurant the woman working thought I was icelandic...must be the blonde hair and blue eyes. She said something and I didnt answer then I apologized and she said sorry I didnt know you weren't Icelandic. Guess I fit in here - just to get some of the language down.

Im hoping that the school offers an evening Icelandic course sometime soon!!

Tomorrow i'm going to go for a little hike around the fjord then in the evening we are doing an apartment crawl - to have fun and learn where each other live.

Im starting to feel better today so i'm going to go to bed now so that I don't get feeling crappy again.

Peace.