Happy Easter pt. 1

Finally we have a break from school longer than 2 days!! We're trying to get as much from it as we can (a lot of sleep!). Unfortunately whether doesn't like to cooperate with us in this matter...
Our break started on Tuesday. Arnbjörn, our Director of International Relations came back from Mexico, and brought us some "presents" which we had to consume immediately :P So we had a small party in our beloved living room. Here are some pictures:






As you can see we got ourselves a nice projector! We're watching huge amounts of movies here, so it's gonna be used very often. We just finished watching "Californication" - small TV Series with David Duchovny, I highly recommend it!

On Wednesday we wanted to go skiing, but it started to rain, so we changed our plans for a swimming pool. The next day we planned a nice trip to the North of Akureyri, but again whether didn't allow us to fulfill the plan :P


Our driver didn't care about the road much, as he couldn't see a shit anyway...

Again we had to change the plans, so we decided to finally go skating. There is a big skating hall near Akureyri, and they have students discounts, so we made a quick decision, and after the lunch everybody was ready for some ice experience.


Typical outfit for this kind of weather here...

Skating hall - well, I don't actually remember when was the last time when I was skating, so it means > 10 years, but it's like with riding a bike I think. After couple of tries, I finally got it and we decided to play a small hokey match with a group of 10-year old kids. Well, needless to say, they bit the shit out of us ;)







Speaking of sports, I don't think I mentioned that, but we have a opportunity to go to the sport hall once a week. We fight hard sometimes, but always fair :P After that, we usually relax ourselves in a nice swimming pool next to the hall.








Typical for me - cramp.


Heineken commercial...




One evening we made a small golf course in the living room.

Other pictures:


This one is from the trip guys had one day, it's about 8 km from our dorm, one of the drivers decided to drive on the beach... well he dug himself up in the sand, and as the water was coming closer and closer to the van, it started to be scary. Finally they found a farmer with a huge tractor to get them out of there.


A morning before one of the exams.


Night - near the dorm.


Nice...

And some artistic stuff :P

Trip to Mývatn.

So we had this trip on Saturday. Forecasts weren't so good the day before, but we decided to go anyway. As it occurred later, Icelandic forecast sucks :) We planned to go to Godafoss - the waterfall of gods first, then visit Dimmuborgir - which is the area created after the eruption of volcano. The Norwegian melodic black metal band Dimmu Borgir took its name from this place. Later we went to see a part of Mývatn lake. It was created by a large eruption 2300 years ago. It's very shallow, mostly 2-3 meters deep. During the winter most of its part is frozen. It's also surrounded by many volacnos. At the end we wanted to go to Dettifoss - the biggest waterfall in Europe, but as i t occurred later the road was closed because of snow, so we finished watching snowmobile competition :)


Our team - we took 2 cars = 18 people (one is missing on the photo).


Restaurant near Godafoss - as you can see weather was better than they said in the forecasts.






Godafoss - waterfall of gods.








On the way to Mývatn - motor bike racing on the frozen lake.




Dimmuborgir - satans fortress :P


Gates to hell!


Geothermal power plant.


Hot muds near Mývatn.


Snowmobile competition.


Back of our truck after the trip...

Other pictures:


Putting competition :P.


We recycle!


Dr Dean Abrahamson on the dinner in our dorm. I chose the wine :P


Dr Paulo Ferrao during the classes.


Working hard or hardly working?


Our small gym, I'm there at least 3 times a week :D

More pictures.

Time for a small update. Pictures are from almost all three weeks of me being here. I got some stuff from my friends, so I'm putting it here.

First the small night trip we had on Saturday.
View from other side of the fjord on Akureyri.


Me and guys.


Our dorm from different angle.


Some of the local specialities. Yummy...


We tried also the famous Icelandic shark... You have to drink it with special kind of Brandy called Black Death. Otherwise, it's kind of hard to swallow this shit :P


I love RES :P


Most popular beers in Iceland.




Some night pictures from around the dorm.




And again Northern Lights :)