Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Once new, now familiar faces

Life in Reykjavik is very familiar. If one goes out for a coffee or on a weekend night - definitely you bump into familiar faces!
Let me introduce you to some of them.
There we have Stefan and Sascha - two friends from Köln, Germany. And my Anna in the middle of course. Stef and Sascha have bought a white VW minibus, drove it up to Denmark, put it on the ferry, a week later got out in Seyðisfjorður and drove along the south coast to Reykjavik. They're both staying a semester. In december they are catching the ferry back home - IF the weather allows them to drive back to Seyðisfjorður in their van :o)
Sebastian, Elena and Anna all live in the same cute house at Njarðarsgata downtown. I basically live with them. Basically means... I cook there, eat there, chat there... it's where you find me at 8am or 9pm or 2am if I'm not at uni or work. Sebastian is from Berlin, he's a good friend of mine and we spend a lot of time discovering Reykjavik's culture places or hanging around coffee places or bars and having philosophical discussions about the world. Elena comes from Barcelona and is just great! Anna, her and me go to the Icelandic language course together. Today when the teacher AGAIN taught us some grammatical rule and straight afterward she had to explain that in fact this rule only applies sometimes and that there basically are no rules in the Icelandic language. Her polite way of telling us is: "We have a special way of saying this..." Elena just looked at me with a very serious face: "This is no funny!" - yeah! We all can't really get the grip of this crazy language :o)
Another typical Saturday night out in Reykjavik. Elena, Anna and Carlos from Madrid!

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