Iceland

a journey of a lifetime

A picture says more than a thousand words

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Looong day...

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I can’t really say much about today. We started at 8.30 and finished at 22.00. I´m not used to the long hours but I will manage, I am actually not that tired. I am learning much and will learn even more tomorrow.

One more thing, it is very hard to show you guys the beauty of Iceland... my camera can only capture so much beauty, its nothing compared to the human eye. With other words: Go to Iceland!

Here are some pictures of today:

The first day -Rocked!

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Oh my goodness what a day! Not a bad start for 5 weeks of working. You see, The other cook is also called Nicolas/Nicholas. So its very confusing when the others are yelling Nicho yet it´s quite funny. So I got my own nickname :).
It was so comfortable to work in the kitchen at the hotel because its a very nice kitchen, its kind of hard to say exactly why its so nice but im just happy right now!

But that's not the end of it, oh no! We had a staff day, that means we the staff have some kind of activity. It was a surprise activity but we got our packing instructions. Guess what? We went to a cave! 8 meters below the surface, our only lightsource are the lamps on our forehead. It was amazing that we could see the awesome rock formation that began around 2000 years ago, I should bring my friends there someday.
And after that, we went to a swimming pool like the one in Norrköping. it was nice to relax in a hot tub after bending my back in that cave.
And then we went to a fancy restaurant and had a nice dinner.
Now im here in front of my computer and will fall asleep any time soon.

Here are some pictures of today:



P.s: Some people thinks it´s anoying to read this in english, please tell me if I should change to swedish or not.

The Arrival

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Ah, What a day! I really just want to sleep right now but I should write about my arrival before I forget the details.
I woke up early cause I was so nervous for my life's first travel to a another country by my self.
I went to bed almost to late the night before but it was worth it, three good friends of mine turned 18 and there was a big party :)

Anyway, after my three hour long flight (all thou, from my clocks perspective i have only been on the airplane for one hour.
When I finally arrived i got on a buss to Reykjavik and from there I travelled with eldhestar to the main building,
the landscape is truly beautiful, such a wasteland, but still so full of life.
We entered a fog so thick that we could barley see 10 meters ahead.

Now im here, Tired and can´t wait to get some sleep, then early tomorrow there will be much work to do.
I can´t promise that I will write everyday but I will try

Welcome to my new new blog!

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Hi. My name is Nicholas Woodhouse and this will be my blog about my journey to Iceland.

Maybe you wonder why this is in English and why I am travelling to Iceland for 6 weeks?
Well, Thats easy to explain. When I´m on Iceland I want to avoid using the Swedish language, and I think I need to write more in English for my grades sake.

Im a student from the Hotel and restaurant program and for the next 6 weeks we are having our practice. Which means that we are working at restaurants so we can gain experience for future work. I am one of the students who wanted to work on Iceland and got the honour to travel to Iceland.

You can follow this blog almost everyday and I will tell you about how its like to live on Iceland. There will be many pictures on this blog I can assure you of that. I fly to Iceland the 25th of Mars.

 

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