Tuesday, 30.06.2009

Today was quite an eventful and exciting day. The morning started of with us going to the Dagmar Aaen to get the weather data. It was clear today would be a foggy and windy day. Never the less, we were all pretty excited to be going to see the Dettifoss and Selfoss waterfalls in the Jokulsargljufur National Park, but first we each had to work on our projects. We had three hours to toil over our different assignments which were all aimed at focusing on our home countries. Once we were done we walked from the school, we were working, to the Guesthouse Visir.
We had a lovely lunch which was beef and vegetable lasagne. Once lunch was over we had about half an hour to prepare for our trip to the waterfalls. At 13:30 we left Visir and travelled in the bus to the park. The trip seemed to have only been about 45 minutes but we had a minor stop along the way to explore the site were the movement of the tectonic plates in Iceland had caused an earthquake during the 70´s. When we had finally arrived the beauty of the Dettifoss waterfall had us all in awe.

The waterfall was gigantic and even though we were standing miles away, somehow the mist from the waterfall still managed to reach us leaving some of us partly drenched. We had to hike for a further 50 minutes to reach that Selfoss waterfall. This waterfall seemed almost bigger than the first and it had little lakes strewn around it. Once again the waterfall´s beauty seemed implausible. We spent nearly three quaters of an hour watching the rapids and listening to the thunderous waves of the water. All too soon it seemed we were hiking back, towards the bus. The trip back to Husavik seemed far shorter than the journey there. Once we had arrived we had about an hour to laze about before dinner was ready. Elise prepared a delicious fish and rice dish that we all thoroughly enjoyed. Once the dishes were all washed up we went once more with Ulrich to the school to complete our individual reports. After about  three hours we went back to the guesthouse to enjoy a goodnights rest.  

Naufiku (Namibia) & Katherine (Greenland)