Blue sky!

Just a quick note...

First of all, those are pictures of my room and the misty view out my window. Hopefully I will have some better Reykjavik pictures after this afternoon.

I am sitting in a little cafe in downtown Reykjavik and I can see a tiny patch (probably a sucker hole) of blue sky! While I was walking back down Laugavegur (the main shopping street) I could see almost the entire flanks of some of the mountains surrounding Reykjavik! First time! I am going to run home and then grab my camera to run to the beach and take pictures! I ran along the beach in the dark yesterday morning, but I am excited to see what it is like in the daylight! ...It just started pouring snow, but I can still see blue sky, so it hopefully won't last long! This is a moment of firsts; first blue sky, first snow, first mountains!

We had volcanology this morning which was pretty hilarious. The Professor, Pall something or other just went through EVERY organization that sometimes deals with volcanology as an introduction. We had it for 2 hours this morning and then in a few hours, we have our practical for another 2 hours. It was so funny to walk to class in the pitch dark. It felt as it we were going to class at 3 am! I was actually really excited (much to the dismay of everyone else...this actually seems to be a common theme, I am gaining the reputation of being the enthusiastic, organized person of the group. For example, the other day we were walking home from the geothermal beach and I remarked, "I LOVE this path!" (It was just a asphalt bike path, but it was along the seaweed smelling beach so I thought it was nice! Dom (an austrailian boy) and Allie (a canadian girl) laughed and laughed and made fun of me for a bit. I didn't get it and Dom said, "Well, I am just not so inclined to profess my love for little paths.) Hmm... this didn't sound as funny as it was, oh well.)

Our professor didn't show up for our next class (Nature based tourism), so we assume that it doesn't start until next week, but of course, no one informed us of this fact...

I wish you guys could see what I am looking at right now. A gorgeous light and dark sky, little twinkly lights on all of the bear trees, blue, red, gree, brown, purple roofs, tons of fashionable people. My oh my.