So all you Minnesotan folk should be proud of the fact that our first professor was born and breed in good old Minnesota and is a Professor Emeritus from the University of Minnesota.  He also has relaxed the schedule for our first two week class to start at 10 am…we are easing into the course work.  So far so good.  Our classroom is nice, they are still working on parts of it each day.  For instance was we were leaving they were bringing in big black leather couches.  The toilets will be installed tonight and we should be knocking out a wall and replacing it with windows over one of the weekends.  RES and the directors are very accommodating.    I’ll take some more pictures for you tomorrow.   

Today was also my first day I was able to get the heart pumping!  I tried to take a walk yesterday, but the wind was so bad that I literally was blown off the icy road a few times.  I gave up and retreated, but apparently it was entertaining for all the students eating breakfast.  Also, I believe all the research showed that Icelanders were very much into the gym and exercising.  Well that might be the case but the University gym falls short of the stature that was built up in my mind.   As you can see, it is very crowded and I had trouble getting a machine to use.  Actually, if it remains this empty I will have my own personal gym for free.  I’m sure the other local gyms are nicer…they have to be when you pay $136 a month.   Everything else there very expensive as well.  A book that you can get in the US for $15 costs $28.  A Cosmo at a bar is a 1000 krona or roughly $15 and a beer is about $8.