Nicola and I hadn´t seen our thrid roommate Toby in a while. We thought he vanished and decided to leave all his stuff here. But Sunday afternoon he came back. He had been in Germany for the past 11 days to visit family and his parents came back with him so he was spending the days with them here. He is a really nice guy, just too bad we hardly ever see him. He forgot his apartment key in Germany, so we see him more now because we have to let him into the apartment when he gets back from work around 11pm. Still don´t know what he does but he works like 10-11 hour days.

We also have another ''flatmate'' if we can call her that. For the past week there is this lady (in her late 30´s to mid 40´s) who lives on the 5th floor but uses our fridge, bathroom and washing machine. She is also from Germany, but she´s kind of creepy. It is kind of weird to share a place with random people though, but fortunately we are moving out in a week or two.

This is our last week of the course. We have an exam Thursday, written and oral, but I heard it isn´t too bad, and it is really for yourself, because if you fail you don´t have to take the course again. I think the course went fairly well. We have learned a fair number of verbs, and have been concentrating on grammar for the past few classes. We´ve learned country names, how to tell time, clothing, food, say our birthdays and even horoscope. We still have to learn adjectives, so we´re having a crash course tomorrow on them. Some people have been complaining it wasn´t well organized or it was too hard, but I think it was ok. It´s a start and it´s really up to us what we do with it.

I´ve been looking at more courses to take (I registered for a few but some aren´t available, which you don´t know until you try and add them because the course catelogue is a year old). I´m going to attempt to take an icelandic course and see if I can do the exam and essay in English. So far most of the courses I enquired about aren´t even being offered, which is frustrating but I´m sure something will come up. I think it would be a good chance to practise my icelandic because I don´t really get to hear much of it because my friends and I mostly speak english.

There´s a big buzz about that Björk is in town. A few of the Danish girls in my class even saw her sitting in an organic cafe with someone. And apparently she shops at the small grocery store which is across the street from our course. So people are keeping their eyes open for her. A few friends were actually playing chess on the chess board and Bobby Fischer apparently plays at also. It´s in front of a used book store (though they are about regular price for back home). Haha so a lot of celebrity spots.

We are going to the Blue Lagoon on Thursday. The big tourist trap, as it´s called. Should be exciting though. I think I heard that it was made by accident by the excess water from a power plant or something that built up in the lava rock, though it´s not dangerous it´s actually suppose to be good your skin. And the water actually looks blue from what I´ve seen in pictures, but I´ll be able to say more after I have gone.

I am off to go watch another icelandic film. I have seen Sódóma and 101 Reykjavik, but kind of weird but pretty good. If you are able to you should try downloading them. I hope we watch Angels of the Universe today, because it´s the one I actually heard about before and it is suppose to be really good. It´s about a guy who goes crazy from unrequited love and is put in an insane asylum and meets some people there, one who think´s he is Hitler, one who think he wrote the songs for the Beatles, and someone else.. Tell you more about it later.

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