This past Wednesday I noticed the first red leaves on a tree, and since then I’ve been seeing red and yellow leaves everywhere. This morning it looked quite blustery and cold out there, but as it happened it was windy but warm. So fall is in the air, but still has a ways to go.Read more
We spent the weekend at Laugarvatn (yes, again), this time with Adda and Halli and their kids. Saturday was gorgeous, Sunday was calm but wet-ish. The kids played by themselves with hardly any directions from adults besides “be careful on the trampline!!” Also, the swimming pool at Selfoss gets full marks for a fantastic warm kiddie pool. 🙂
By Kerið on the way to Laugarvatn. It's a big ol' crater filled with water, and not a guardrail in sight.
Today was my first day of teaching, pretty much ever. My class is at 08:20 am, and most of the class has a three hour gap in their schedule after my class finishes shortly before 10am, so only about half showed up, or eight souls. Somewhat shockingly, half of those in attendance were female. We’llRead more
After a week of glorious weather (who needs a fleece jacket? not me!!), yesterday was more in the family of “window weather”. It looked nice but a cold gusty wind blew where it could, and the cold wind continued on today. We did manage to walk downtown yesterday to enjoy the annual “Culture Day” forRead more
This summer has been very dry, much like the summer last year. But this weekend has been wet wet wet. And I routinely need to remind myself that one of the things I didn’t enjoy so much about CA was the eternal non-rain during the summer months. Yes, indeed, I like rain! Or at leastRead more
I suffered from photo-fatigue and only took a handful to document that we were really there!Read more
These are photos from August 6th 2010. We didn’t take a lot of photos during the unloading of the container because we were BUSY!! But we send out deepest thanks to our awesome helpers! Thank you! 🙂 Takk takk! 🙂
Waiting for the container. We weren't sure how quickly they could get the container to us (we'd paid up at 3:50 pm, they don't take any new assignments after 4pm) so we asked people to arrive shortly after four.
It is now Tuesday, and we’ve taken the evening off from opening boxes and sorting things. By this I mean that Finnur fell asleep with Bjarki at 7 pm, and I stayed up to mind Anna who didn’t succumb to sleep until somewhere between 9 and 10pm. It’s now 10:30 pm, and it’s getting darkRead more
My dad has been visiting from England with my brother Anthony, and his girlfriend, Shirley. They leave tomorrow so we met up to have dinner at Mjöll’s and Siggi’s (Mjöll is dad’s aunt). Unfortunately we left the big camera at home, so all we had was the cell phone. Oh well, that’s better than nothing!Read more
Here are some pictures of my sparse but very spacious office. I was introduced to one of the higher-up admins the other day, and she went on to say that the office wasn’t 100% mine yet, but my superior says otherwise. So I’ll have to wait and see, but in the meantime, all this glorious space is miiiiine!
The view from the door.