Hihi from sunny Iceland!

After a big delay at Schiphol we arrived much later in Reykjavík than expected. Not too bad as were not going on a holiday, no stress, letting everything go with the flow. Yesterday we spend half the day in the city, mostly checking out the stores to see what kind of things they are selling here. We were all three kind of impressed by the whole range of ‘exotic Icelandic salmon skin’ earrings and other products covered with this odd leather. So far we noticed that the Icelandic people are very friendly, dressed up with more sense of fashion than the Dutch and Germans and good music in the background of almost any store and café.

In the afternoon we took the taxi to the domestic airport and while waiting there I recognized by coincidence one of our guest-teachers Brad Barr who comes from Alaska. I asked if he was the man I thought he was and after this small introduction we felt a little more excited about the upcoming course as we now had a face to it. The flight to Ísafjörður - which was almost cancelled due to the bad weather, went alright till we flew into the fjords where we had so many turbulence that the plane went close to going horizontal a few times. Usually turbulence gives me the good kind of adrenaline but now I have to admit I started to feel a little uncomfortable.. just a little ;-)

At the airport we were picked up by a lady from school and we met another student from Norway who will take, like us, a few subjects from the program. We were dropped off by ‘’our house’’ and found out soon why they did not send us a picture from the outside. We considered all the houses in a 360’ view, but that was really the one haha. It reminded us of a Pipi Langkous house, but.. the bad it looks from the outside.. the cozy and warm it is from the inside, and luckily enough there is a good heating system throughout the whole house. More pictures of the house will follow later..

Today we cleaned up all our luggage and took a long walk to a supermarket which is about 45 minutes walking. The views here are breath-taking and no matter where you look, mountains everywhere, something not quite common for me. We were broken after arriving home, carrying kilos of groceries with us (toilet paper, vegetables, potatoes, rice, herbs and more).

Tomorrow is the first school day, we have not yet internet in the house.. so more news will follow soon!

We arrived!!

All the ducks are swimming in the water

On the road

Enjoying the sunshine

Our house!