Fourth Week

Just cause you feel that you can eat anything after a workout doesn’t mean you should.

You can get tacky Icelandic souvenirs only if they are practical for everyday use.

Everyone needs a wool sweater from Iceland, even if you weren’t planning on it.

Icelandic wool sweaters are furnaces. I say that as a good thing.

Icelandic Scrabble® isn’t quite the same.  No English word uses a þ, and U is not 8 points.

Handball goalies need to be extremely flexible.

A wheel of fortune is less exciting when a spin costs you 1500kr and beer is on the line.

Opening a bank account makes everything feel real.  This is no normal vacation.

Icelanders love requiring pictures on everything, including debit cards.

Eating sufficient amounts of fruits and vegetables is a challenge.

Most fellow foreign exchange students are tolerant and open to cultures.  Some are idiots.

Watching TV alone makes you feel lazy. Watching it in a group makes it an accomplishment.

Rabbit hair is incredibly soft.

Know what labels say.  Horse meat finds its way in a lot of things…and liver.

Relax.  Those sheep heads are only in the freezer because a Viking festival is approaching.

Texas hold’em takes a while to get back into.  Our maybe I just suck…

Orka is a good Icelandic energy drink, just don’t combine it with candy, you will feel it.

Large snowfalls will all but melt away in a matter of days leaving no trace.  What about it?

Get your fish at the market, and horse meat if you are so inclined.

Skype makes you wonder how exchange students communicated before the Internet.

There is a sense of pride from cooking all your meals at home.

Playing beer pong and flip cup makes one feel nostalgic for American college life.

As an American, your body will feel naturally inclined to quit partying at 2.  Resist the urge.

Bar close at 5 is tiring on a person who loves to dance.  Arrive late.

Humour doesn’t translate, especially when it’s being paraphrased to you in real time.

Staying up until 7:30 isn’t the same without the sun greeting you.

Double check bus schedules or you may be in for a long walk.

Ice-skating is fun anywhere, but it feels like the perfect activity in Iceland.  Even indoors.

All drivers are in a hurry, or at least that would explain having no patience for pedestrians.

Theatres put a ten-minute intermission in the middle of movies.  It’s annoying.

Missing home friends, loving Icelandic ones, and never wanting to leave?  Normal.

Three weeks into class? Sounds like the perfect time to do finally do homework time to me!