Reykjavik Culture Night

Saturday was the Culture Night. There were bands playing, shows and exibits going on all over town. I met up with some people from the course and we walked around. We went to the art museum, which was kind of interesting, it was very contemporary art, and there were a few girls all in their own colour dancing around this one room. In one of the rooms there were tvs all along the one wall and each showed a different view of this old man just doing his normal things in his day. It was kind of strange. It showed him writing at his desk, getting dressed, going to the bathroom, and eating. After the museum we walked towards the library, where Nicola and I bought a library card so then we could take out books, like children's books and try and practise reading icelandic.

We met up with Mads and Paco and headed down Laugevegur (the main street). On one of the balconies, there was a man singing opera, and we came to the Skrifan (the big cd store) and there was a icelandic metal band playing outside. They looked like they were about 10 years old but they were playing this hard music and screaming in the microphone. Inside Skrifan there were belly dancers. We only stayed a short while because we had to meet up with some people near the harbour. There was a big concert at the harbour, and Hjalmar (the icelandic reggae band that I heard last year) played and that was really cool. It started raining though but being in such a large group it wasn't too bad. I headed home after Hjalmar to get some food then came back with Nicola for 11 to see the fireworks. The whole area was so crowded. There must have been all of Reykjavik out on the streets. We finally found our friends right when the fireworks began. They were amazing, it was almost 10 minutes straight of fireworks. They were quite beautiful.

When they were done we had to attempt our way back downtown among the mob to get to Victoria's place, because her roommate was having a party. By then it was pouring rain (luckily my new shoes are semi-water proof, which was nice), and we bumped into Gunnhildur and Stebbi, they were on their way home. We made our way to Victoria's place but when we got there she hadn't arrived yet. Hannes (an icelandic guy I met on the internet) phoned me and we found out he was coming to the same party, he was friend's with Victoria's roommate. So I finally met him and his girlfriend. Nicola ended up getting into a big discussion about American policy and religion with some Icelandic guy, named Biggie. I felt kind of bad because people kept attacking her about Bush and such, and everyone thinks that americans are really stupid. We ended up getting kicked out of the place because some lady downstairs was threatening to call the police, and Victoria wasn't suppose to have brought so many people so we had to leave. We headed back downtown and went to the bar 22, but I didn't stay long and got soaked in the rain on the way home. But overall it was a good day.