My week in Iceland

Sunday, September 29.

In the morning, I woke up at 10, we had a coffee with milk for breakfast and an Icelander picked us up to go to Reykjavik. We stopped at a beach, which was 5 degrees, and had a sauna next to it. The beach looked like a lake, it wasn't open like in Spain, it had houses in front of it. After that we went to the mall, we entered some stores that had very expensive clothes compared to Spain. We saw a roulette that gave you a bag and had prizes like 1000 crowns, 20% discount in a store, and we stop to spin it, I got 1000 crowns for this store, but it didn't open until November so I gave it to my Icelandic. Then we stop to eat, we took some sandwiches from a restaurant and took them to eat with the others, who were in another restaurant, in addition, we had a tap with drinking water and glasses next to take, people could take it without paying. When we finished eating, we went to some recreational games, they gave us a card that let us play everything we wanted in 30 minutes, we played basketball, motorcycles, hockey... When we returned to our homes, it gave us some time to relax in our rooms until dinner was ready, we had chicken with sauce and carrots, broccoli and mashed potatoes. Then, we watched a movie until the others arrived. When they arrived we played a board game in which each of us was assigned a character, and we had to guess who the murderer was. Later we went out to the courtyard to see the northern lights until we went back inside to watch another movie together, until they left.

Monday, September 30

In the morning I woke up early to wash my hair, got ready and went downstairs for breakfast. I had a cup of coffee. He gave us lunch with a note that said "Have a good day!" And a sandwich, bars, chocolate milkshake and a grape taper. We went to the institute on foot since it was close. I thought it was too big for the few that were. He had a giant dining room with music on, many technology rooms, where they even made real houses, a biology workshop and another chemistry workshop, and he also taught us the classes. Then we went to his class to have lunch, when we finished we went to a rock and roll museum, where they had a famous drummer, karaoke, clothes, a movie theater, and much more. Later we went to eat at a hamburger place, they asked us all for the same thing, we Spaniards sat at one table and they at another. Then a bus picked us up and we went to the peninsula, we went to several places, first we went to a beach, we found it curious that it seemed that there was not much life out there. Right there we went to a museum where there were models of houses and old things like phones, tractors... Then we stopped at a church, which had a legend that said it was enchanted, there was a meadow with a small soccer goal and a ball. The next stop was where the tectonic plates were divided, it was full of volcanic sand, we climbed a bridge to look at it from above, then we went down to the sand. Near there, we moved to another beach, also full of sand and volcanic stones, also many shells, the water was very cold and the waves broke hard. The last stop was in some geysers, which were full of sulfur and had machinery that reused hot water by expelling steam. When we went to the house, we were given some time in our room, I started a movie until my Spanish colleagues came to have dinner with us. We had meat soup with carrots, potatoes and vegetables for dinner, he also put Doritos and a toast to spread with butters, at the table we talked about situations in Spain and Iceland and their similarities. When we finished dinner, they put La casa de papel, they had watched it all in Spanish with English subtitles, until two more colleagues arrived, we were talking until friends of our Icelanders arrived. We spent the whole night playing Icelandic and Spanish music, and then we took a walk around the block. My Iceland's sister arrived and we were all talking about this week's plans, until they all left and we went to sleep.

Thursday, October 3

This morning, I showered and washed my hair. Then we went down for breakfast for a coffee with milk. We went to the institute and waited for the bus inside. When it arrived, the trip lasted about 2 hours, until we arrived at a national park, where we were taught nature of Iceland, a river where they used to throw women accused of witchcraft, sexual relations before marriage from a cliff... but it was stopped practiced until about 1735, a cemetery with important people, another river where they throw coins that then go to an association for children... Then, we went back to the bus and went to eat at a farm, we ate hamburger with potatoes, and then an ice cream. We also went to a kind of mattress. When we returned to the bus, we went to see the geysers, there were several, but everyone was watching the biggest one, the one that erupted. There was a moment when we saw it erupt three times in a row, luckily, there was a group of Spaniards who had recorded it and they passed it to us. Then, we went back to the bus and went to see the waterfall, first we entered a souvenir shop, and it was a little late, so we had to run to see the waterfall, since the route was very long. We also saw a glacier from afar. When we returned, we had dinner with my Icelandic and her parents, we had chicken and vegetables for dinner, we were talking to them. After dinner, some colleagues picked us up and we went to a kind of community center, where there was a pool table, ping pong, a mini cinema, dining room, darts... We were there for a long time, also organizing the Friday plan. That place was going to close soon, so we went to an islandic's house, we didn't stay long, because they were tired, so we returned home early.