la virgen

i forgot to take a picture today so here's a selfie of me con la virgen!!!!!! always watching over me, gotta love her

i had ecology in the morning and immediately determined it was extremely easy, so i dropped it like it's hot for environmental impact assessment, which is technically an engineering class because i love making my life really really really difficult!!!!

then i popped home for lunch and the nature section of icelandic nature and cultural legacy. the teacher is a recent grad and she's very........... authoritarian..................... and scary..........

later in the afternoon i made a bank account and got a neti pot and got my phone fixed because i'm a Real Human Being.



anyway back to iceland things. i'm getting a little frustrated because it can be really difficult to navigate things here. e.g. at the bank today. they are very big on tickets here. like you take a ticket while waiting and then they call your number, which is a really nice system. anyway, there were a lot of different buttons to press for different services and i didn't know which one to press. a) because i'm a child who doesn't understand banks b) because the translations were not great. but i pressed the right button.
example number two! i'm not sure if this is like, an overarching cultural theme or not, but i'm going to share anyway! when i came back from the bank i went to put my bike in the garden, and the woman who lives in the apartment below mine was picking berries. so i went to introduce myself, but then she didn't understand english and made a big fuss and got her son and someone else from the house and looked like she was panicking. and then i explained to her son that i was living upstairs and just wanted to introduce myself and he gave me like. the dirtiest look. and was very weirded out. so i'm not sure if this was just the one specific situation or a broader cultural thing with relations between neighbors? i know that people generally don't smile or say hi when they pass each other on the streets, so that's why i suspect it might not just be this specific situation.

okay anyway i am getting over my icelandic plague, though apparently many exchange students are getting it as well. but i'm glad it lasted less than a week!!!!!! god bless iceland