Sunday, September 6th, 2009

ISL02: First Trip

Written by Mix
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Last week, my host family drove me to the Nesjavellir that is the Geothermal Power plant.

Power Plant

The Geothermal Power uses hot water/stream from the edges of plates. They dig holes deep 2 kilometers to take hot water/stream to generating electricity.
After that, hot stream meets with cold water from the lake near the site, makes it colder about 83 degrees and send to cities.

Then, we went to the oldest parliament in the world, Alþingi. Near there, there are the canyons of the two plates of the world. Pabbi told me, Somebody says, this is America and this is Europe.

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We went to the Geysir. It was the born of the word, geyser. But now, Geysir isn’t active anymore. I saw a geyser near Geysir.

Geyser near Geysir

We rested in a pine forest, had a lunch there. It was a first time to try lamb. There was smoking-lamb in my sandwich. I think, it´s tasty!

Finally, we went to a Gullfoss. Here was very cold and windy… I felt not good when I stood on the top of the rock on waterfall. Pabbi and I took some photos before we went back home. it took one hour and a half.

Gollfoss

On last Monday, I’ve been to the school first time. It’s Verzlo. I’m trying to make friends and understand Icelandic.

Sorry to my bad English. I try to use English on this blog because my host family can read it too. My host family is very nice to me. >_<
Now, Ég tala ekki íslensku. LOL

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

ISL01: Arrived in Iceland

Written by Mix
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Yep, now I’m staying in Iceland.

My Friends!

We took flights from Bangkok and stop at Copenhagen then we fly with Icelandair to Kaflavik.
In SAS flight from BKK to CPH, I didn’t have time for sleep, it was a difficult to sleep like that. Keng and I arrived CPH airport, we have 1 hour to change the flight. We ran to C3 and thought we were on time… Keng found the monitor that said STOCKHOLM. :( We ran again to B3 (the correct gate) that in another side of the airport. So when I was in Icelandair flight, I took a nap but I must wake up because it had a lot of AIR POCKETs!

Keflavik Airport
So when I arrived here, it was very very cold in the airport. We met AFS volunteers and took bags to car. When I was going out, I feel very very colder than inside! It was windy, they said the wind is from Greenland maybe menus temperature.

We waited for NOR guy about 4 hours then we went to camp. We went to walk and saw many things that different. The cars here haven’t dirty air out. When we want to cross road, cars always stop and let people to walk first.

Ocean near the arrival camp

The camp was started when everybody arrived. Lots of games, learning activities and friends!