Today was not a very busy day unlike this past weekend. It was mostly filled with Univeristy of Iceland classes. I went to the pool Vesturæjarlaug that is close to the hostel to try to practice Icelandic with locals at 7:30 this morning. However the attempt to practice was unsuccessful since there weren't many people who seemed social enough to talk to strangers. However, we did get to watch a group of elderly people being led through stretches on the pool deck by a leader yelling out instructions in Icelandic. From the pool we went straight to our regular Icelandic language classes where we learned how to have a generic conversation in Icelandic for ordering drinks at a coffee house. Next, one of Asta Sol's cousins came to play Icelandic folk music, tell folk stories, and teach us about Iceland's oddly dark sense of humor. After lunch, we were given an Icelandic cultural lesson where we learned about how Iceland's national identity is coping with their multicultural population. Then after a couple hours break to explore Reykjavik by ourselves, the participants were split up into groups of two or three and each group went to dinner with different Snorri board members and alumni. I had a delicious dinner at the house of one of my distant Icelandic relatives and later figured out that he was my uncle 4th removed!
I'm looking forward to going on a trip with my cousin Kent tomorrow to an area near Reykjavik where some of our common ancestors emigrated from.
I have no new photos today unfortunately! I spent the afternoon practicing Icelandic at the hostel then getting groceries as well as accidentially getting 10x as much money as I had intended from an ATM. Oh well, I'll spend most of it during my trip through Europe after the Snorri program.
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