My attempt with the icelandic language

Yesterday I attempted ordering a pizza in Icelandic. It was going ok, for the first second when I just said hello and told him I wanted the pizza special, then he asked me in icelandic where I wanted to pick it up but I didn't understand so had to ask in english. After figuring out the street name, he asked what I wanted on it, so I try again in icelandic, but he says they didn't have the one topping, but I didn't quite understand that so it was back to english. I finally got all the toppings and everything set, he told me it would be about 20mins. So I look on the big map of Reykjavik trying to find out where the hell this pizza place is. It took me a while to find but when I finally did I realised that it was on the opposite end of Reykjavik, which would probably take me almost an hour to walk there! So I ended up phoning back and telling him to cancel my order... After all that Nicola and I decided to try the popular burgar joint down by the harbour. It was really tastey though it was twice as expensive and you got half the portions as back home.

I suppose it was an ok first attempt. My problem is I seem to speak alright, I just don't understand when icelanders talk to me. So hopefully with classes and meeting more icelandic people I can practise just listening to icelandic. I've been quite surprised though that when I do try speaking in icelandic the person generally responds in icelandic. I've been told my a few people that my accent is pretty good, so I guess I deceive people really well.

I think I will move into residence today. I finally got my key yesterday and looked around a bit. It is actually pretty nice and it will be cool to meet more people. It seems that the majority of people living in the residence are north americans (which I guess is ok but it would be nice to meet different types of people and perhaps practise other languages). The R.A or don is french though so perhaps I can practise french with him. He seems more friendly and easier to talk to than Nicolas (the French guy from my course). I hope I'll be able to keep in contact with most people from the course, I met a lot of really cool people there and we had a lot of fun together. It will be more difficult with school starting but hopefully we'll manage.

Tom, the other exchange student from Trent, is coming Wednesday morning and I am going to meet him at the bus terminal to take him to rez. I will have to show him around though I still don't know the names of a lot of places and some streets, I won't be much of a tour guide. I am really glad that I did do the course though because I have been able to get quite comfortable with Reykjavik and have travelled a fair bit in the short time I have been here. I have also made many friends, so school should flow quite nicely (hopefully).