It has been non-stop activities and learning since arrival.
There are swimming pools everywhere! It is amazing! There is a swimming pool near our guesthouse that has hot tubs on the roof. It is a popular place, the hot tubs, people gather there to have meetings, and socialize. I still feel trapped in an English bubble and am looking forward to my homestay to really learn the language.
It is still disorienting to hear birds chirping and have daylight streaming through the windows at midnight, and not recognize my body's messages that it is tired and wants to go to bed.
Other random points about what in is like here:
The hot water smells of shower or rotten eggs
The streets are really, really clean
Homelessness is very minimal and there are ample shelters available
There are no squirrels but cats roam the streets all the time and none are strays, they all have official homes
Birds are different, there are different species of ducks and gulls and song birds
The three types of Icelandic beer that I have tasted seem like pale ales, so I am definitely missing me some good Publican House beer
The rain feels lighter somehow, even getting soaked after standing in rain for 3 hours, it is not as heavy as the torrential downpours we get at home
Street art is everywhere and it is often beautiful
There are many young couples with children, especially on the streets of the National Day, there we children everywhere, it was nice to see
Today (Saturday) we went river rafting. It was on the Hvít Á ( White river) which is fed by a glacier and runs to the ocean. It was soooo exhilarating. We even had the opportunity to jump off rocky ledges of 7m and 10m. I jumped off the 7m because it was a once in a lifetime experience, of course, but 10m was too thrilling for me! The water was freezing, but it was soooo worth it.
Tomorrow we are driving along the south coast to see one of the glaciers and volcanos. Should be fun.
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