Thumbs up for climbing Mt. Esja in Reykjavík!!
So yep. I did an interview on Icelandic radio mostly in Icelandic. Ég var mjög stressa. I was incredibly stressed out about it, but I can check that one off the bucket list!
There are no pictures from our river rafting trip, but this one was taken on our way there! Crater Lake.
Það er kominn sautjándi júní! Happy Icelandic Independence Day!
My grandma and grandpa had one of these in their backyard =)
An amazing dinner with wonderful INL Board Members, complete with interviews for a video documentary about Western Icelanders (people of Icelandic descent living in Canada/USA).
This was what I walked by every day on my way to school. Beautiful.
Meeting the President of Iceland... All four American Snorris in this picture =)
Ég er að borða svið. I am eating sheep´s head. I had the cheek, eye, and tongue. Nom, nom.
Just a midsummer´s eve on the shores of Iceland.
Forest festival in Hallormsstaður!
These are my cousins, we are just drinking water from the stream.
Hot pool on the mountains with my cousins!
More of my cousins! You can def tell we are related =)
Mountain top grilling - what a way to have lunch.
So anyway, those are pictures from my trip. Here are a few other highlights that I didn´t get pictures of that I´m taking from my journal...
-The first day at our Guesthouse, I tried to use my blow dryer, blew all the fuses in the apartment, and had to get the owner to help me fix it. He gave me a blow dryer to use. The guesthouse was amazing. Plus amazing breakfast every day. You should stay there when (not if) you go to Iceland. Guesthouse Odinn. Check it out.
-So far I´ve lost three pairs of earrings in Iceland. Hoping that will be the end of it.
-I am in process of buying all the Little Miss Sunshine books in Icelandic. I´m calling it an investment since I´ll read them to my kids, but let´s get real - I love those books and they are all for me. Saying it´s an investment just makes me feel better about spending so much on them.
-Locked myself in a bathroom at a concert. My cousin Óli had to come save me because I was so panicked I thought nobody outside the bathroom door would speak English (everyone speaks English in Reykjavík). So now I never lock the bathroom doors... this could be a problem in the future, but it hasn´t been one yet.
-Started a salsa dance party in a small pizza parlor. Enough said.
-The Snorri Program has been in the paper twice here in Iceland... so basically we are celebrities. Hopefully you got my autograph before this trip.
-Ate waffles from a yellow van. Seems legit, yes? So tasty.
-Was filmed during language class correctly using 'jú' instead of 'já' and was super pumped. Hoping that will make it to the documentary. I´ve been working on that skill for about a year.
-Saw some awesome indie/folk concerts in Reykjavík. Wish I could make it for Airwaves. What an amazing place for music.
-Met so many cousin in a forest in Hallormsstaður, East Iceland. It´s amazing how much we look and behave alike. Nature vs. nurture, man, makes you think.
-Basically, I´m having the time of my life with my new family in Iceland. Everyone here is extremely generous and I can´t thank you all enough for taking me in as one of your own. I will be so sad to leave each place and to leave Iceland, but after this trip I know I will never go more than a year without visiting. I´m already trying to figure out how I might be able to live here =)
-I´m sure I´m missing a ton of highlights, so if any Snorris are reading this please comment!
I hope this is a good enough update for now... stay tuned for a video update with different clips I´ve taken around Iceland... sometime in the future. (Putting a time frame on it will only make me miss the deadline). TAKK FYRIR OG BLESS Á MEÐAN! Thanks and bye for now!
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