When you pray for snow just for a break from the rain, you’ve been here long enough.
Bad teachers make bad classes, especially when you add annoying students.
Friends make studying for a test a little bit easier.
Shark smells god-awful and tastes worse. Only try it to say you tried it.
America apparently has the lowest food prices of the industrial world. I’ll stop complaining.
Second Class sounds worse than a C, but First Class with Distinction sound better than an A.
21:00 is early to start an event, especially in Iceland.
Nicknames save everyone the embarrassment.
When your depth perception is sluggish, mind your teeth. You could chip one.
Beef is an expensive treat, making burgers the best indulgence food ever.
You’re officially an Icelander when you give directions to a tourist.
After getting a taste for a buddy, you’ll want one for every aspect of your life.
It’s a small world after all.
Icelandic electo-pop songs are catchy. Just don’t ask what the lyrics mean; it ruins them.
Follow the crowd; it normally leads to free beer and new people.
Even if you’re too tired to go out, don’t be surprised if you stay up until 3:00.
Take the school planned trips; they are exceptional deals.
Important deadlines are just a friendly suggestion, everyone’s happen to accommodate.
When you can walk up to a president’s house you know crime isn’t an issue in the country.
A raging ocean will calm the most troubled man.
Get used to naked people if you plan to swim in Iceland. Naked showers are mandatory.
When heading off to view the northern lights, don’t wear skinny jeans. Layer!
The northern lights are unpredictable; don’t get your hopes too high.
It takes a Nordic tough to speak Icelandic; a Romanic tongue should just stop trying.
Two washers, one dryer, can only be used from 9 til 21? Yeah, that’s not going to work.
When your entire floor decides to be lazy and not do homework, don’t be a hero, join in.
Boiling hot soup, no matter how masterfully created, will burn your entire mouth.
The northern lights is most spectacular phenomenon in the universe, get your hopes up!
You need an expensive camera to capture the northern lights, or a friend with one.
A fortune amulet is the best give to get in the year of the dragon.
Don’t “wing it” with directions in the dentist district.
(Other Random Things to Round Out Life)
It hovers around freezing most of the day, a little less at night.
The cold isn’t bad, the wind is.
The sun setting at 18:30 seems normal. It not rising before 10:00 doesn’t.
Military time takes a long time to get used to.
(Almost) Every door to exit a building you have to pull.
Yes that is a fire hazard, but there’s nothing that can be done.
Rarely will people know where Iowa is.
Good northern lights cover the entire sky and dance and shift before your eyes.
Icelandic girls are very attractive; the common belief behind this being that the Viking only brought the most attractive Brits to Iceland in the early days; I’d believe it.
Icelanders love coffee.
Every class, no matter the length, has a 10-minute break in the middle of it.
Several main buildings of the university were recently built, giving it a modern feel.
It is an uphill battle for me to remember foreign names.
I live in dorms a three-minute walk to the Háskólatorg (University Center).
Icelanders mainly know English from watching American TV shows; they rarely speak to between themselves, however, with most of them you couldn’t tell.
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