Archive for September, 2009

Hi!

Today is complete one month in Iceland now. It’s very very fast. I think the day I’ve left Thailand was yesterday for me. So this entry, I will tell you about my feeling and my experience.

First with my hosting family, they are very nice to me. My sister usually invites me to join her activities. My brother always walks to me and smile… (I think he’s shy to speak with me.) My Mamma and Pabbi teach me a lot about Iceland vocabularies. They try to understand my bad English and talk to me when I don’t have anything to do. It was the big worry for me about host family before I came here. But now I’m not.

About my school, Verzlo, it’s great place. My friends try to speak to me, I’m trying to speak more with them too. Lessons make me sleepy sometime because I don’t know what they’re talking about. My favorites are English, Computer and Maths. I can understand a little of them. In here, PE is very difficult for me. Running around school… Football lesson… But I agreed it make me healthy.

Food!!! Icelanders have Italian, Chinese and more. My family loves to have Italian, Mexican, Icelandic and some of noodles! I can eat them, some of them are delicious for me. Icelanders have (I think) 5 meals. Breakfast, between BF and Lunch, Lunch, before dinner and dinner. But I’m not fat… My weight is abate while I eat more. Maybe about the weather here that have to build body always warm and about I have to walk everyday.

To be here, I have a lot of things I have learnt, I can speak English with each others more brave! I can get up by myself Hahaha. I can manage about clothes, about my room and my life. In here buses are very comfortable and on-time. I can go to everywhere in Reykjavik by bus and my bus map. I learn a lot about the different culture… about how to be in the other culture.

Everything here is expensive!!! I’ve sent postcard to my family and my friends… Hope you get them soon!

PS. MAMA, the noodle…. I have had it!

Last week, my host family drove me to the Nesjavellir that is the Geothermal 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.

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.

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.

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