Friday, December 12, 2008

Something about the protest in Reykjavik.

There was a small thing I didn't notice when I went to the protest in Reykjavik - it was backwards to me... :D

Sunday, December 7, 2008

November in Reykjavik.

I know, I've become very lazy in updating my blog, but it's just not too much happening here right now. We spend most of our time at work doing the project and on weekends we are so lazy to do anything :P Anyways, here are some pictures I was able to take in November. Enjoy!

Saga Party @ Innovation Center. People were dressed as different characters from Icelandic Sagas - vikings, elves, witches etc. There was some traditional Icelandic food, like smoked lamb, dried fish and other, not necessary, tasty things; a lot of alcohol, singing and a realistic viking fight.












In Iceland during Christmas all kinds of shops are releasing Christmas line of products. They not only look different, but also sometimes taste different.




Hjaltalin concert @ NASA, Reykjavik.




Best burgers in town.


My 4th flatmate...


Yoko Ono's Imagine Peace Tower on the small island of Videy near Reykjavik. You can read more about this project here.


Sweet tasting in Innovation Center - Iceland cake :P


Because of the economic crisis, which struck Iceland very hard, people are angry on government, that they didn't do much to protect country from the after effects. Situation here is really hard for some people. A lot of them lost their jobs and because of the fact, that it was really easy to get a loan from the bank, they find it really hard to afford paying interests. Every weekend people are gathering on the main square in Reykjavik, in front of parliament and are protesting against Icelandic Government.


Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Walk around.

On Sunday the weather was quite good, so I went for a short walk. I took some pictures on the way :) Enjoy!

Our car.


Our flat.


Some sculptures in front of the house.


View on Reykjavik from the hill next to Mosfellsbær.


Mosfellsbær.




Yes, this picture is actually taken in Iceland :P

Saturday, October 25, 2008

My next 3 months.

This company:


This "washing machine" :P


And this city:

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Bloodgroup concert.

On Saturday (10.11) we went to a Bloodgroup concert in Akureyri. I heard this band first time on the concert in Reykjavik, during the Art Night Festival. I mentioned it already in one of my posts, so just to remind you, this is their MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/bloodgroup. They play good, "ear-catching" (I hope Magda, I can use your expression also here? :)) mix of electro-pop and alternative rock. They really kick ass on concerts, I bought their CD and also got their autographs :)


They had two bands playing before them as a support - first one was DLX ATX, a new formed band playing strange, but interesting mix of drum and bass. You can check one of their songs on YouTube:




Next one was Skátar, Icelandic viking rock band. They were wearing really funny clothes :)






And then the Bloodgroup - they gave a great concert :)


Small off-topic - picture from a strange accident which happened next to our dorm - apparently guy tried to escape from the accident he caused few minutes before that one.


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Sunday, October 5, 2008

Rafting in Iceland.

On Sunday we finally went rafting. We were planning to do this for a long time and finally it happened! Just one word to describe it - AWESOME!

Guides were from Nepal - great guys. They actually do that all year long - during the summer they work in Iceland, and the rest of the year - in Nepal. They said, that they never did this at this time of the year here, they were going home the following morning :)




Zipping the dry suits required some help.




Some quick instructions.


Then we were rafting - great experience, I don't have many pictures, but we order a movie which the guy was shooting during the trip. I'll try to post it here when I get it. I hope they recorded our fall in the spot called "Green Room" - it had to look great.

Movie is here!


At the end of the raft we had opportunity to jump from the 8m rock!


Great thing to do here - I highly recommend it. The best period to do rafting is between June and July. Then the current is strongest and the water has higher level. You can also visit their website - www.rafting.is.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Simply the RES!

On Friday, 3rd of October, the Sprellmót - department fight - took place on University of Akureyri. Because RES is not so small school (in Icelandic standards) and we actively participate in students live at the University, we had our own team. We started from helping Stafnbui, friendly Science department, to protect their beautiful sex-doll from nasty Nurse department. So we gathered in one of the buildings and put some of our "dirty" thoughts on the doll :)


Then we went to the city center, where the screaming contest took place.








After that, all a bit drunk already, we left for the sports hall near Akureyri, to continue with other contests:
Beer relay.


Shot relay.


As you can see some of us were really thirsty :P




Tug of war...


...and eating competition with Iron-Stomach Pedro as our representative.




After that we had a small break for visiting Vinbud (liquor shop) and restocking our supplies for the evening. We went to Sjallin, nice club, in which the last two contest took place: singing and beer-bong competitions.


With this great song we won the singing contest!
The jury counted the points and we scored second in the whole day (we were also first in shot relay). Not bad for the first time, huh? :)