We had very interesting competition during our first semester. It was a cooking competition and it was much more than just a making food to your friends. We were five teams and all the teams had to do dinner with starter, main dish and dessert to rest of the teams. After the dinner every participant had to give number between 1 and 10. We should consider the food itself, service and decoration. We collected the votes to individual envelopes and then we sealed the...

Something about my studies here in Iceland: Some other exchange students might surprise to hear that I'm also a student here. In first two months I went every week to University but usually just to gym. I had only one course and it was Icelandic Culture. I basically skip the first month's lectures because I was so busy with my other "things" and also Marko and Otto visited me. Icelandic Culture course was very interesting and we had to read one saga ...

October 2009 was the end of one beautiful story. I mean the story of McDonald's in Iceland. They shut down all the three McDonald's in Iceland on 31st of October. That was a sad day and I wanted to honor McDonald's by eating there at the last time here in Iceland. I wasn't the only pilgrim who wanted to have the really last burger. There was a huge line and I had to wait almost 30 minutes. My target was to get Big Mac meal but it was sold out so I had to be satis...

I have been very lazy to update my blog and I haven't been taking many photos recently. Here is something what had happened in past weeks. Few weeks ago I went to the glacier trip. We rented a van for seven people and we stayed overnight in some hostel middle of nowhere. We were I, Carlos, Isac, Juanma, Sonja, Chrissy and Nina. Our trip was fantastic and we saw different waterfalls, glaciers, glacier lagoons and beautiful landscape. I hosted one Portuguese guy...

Iceland Airwaves music festival started on Wednesday (14th) and it ended on Sunday. Concerts were held in different bars and clubs around the Reykjavik. 22 liters of our home made wine was ready just before festival and the wine was a great party booster. There were lots of Icelandic bands and also many bands from other countries. Most of the bands didn´t say anything to me and I mainly just followed my friends who knew some bands. On Wednesday I got quite smash...