Day 15: I'm better! Kinda...

So I woke up feeling much better today (normal temperature) so I decided to go to class. Yesterday a new lecturer began the week, and he'll be teaching us until Wednesday. In class we covered geothermal energy and a brief history of Iceland's economy. I'm learning a lot, but it's hard to stay awake before lunch, especially when you're taking cough syrup that makes you drowsy.

After our renewable energy course we walked to our Icelandic class and played several word matching games. After our "kaffi pása" our teacher, Sigga, taught us a bunch of dirty Icelandic words. Some of them are quite creative and hilarious.

When class ended, a couple of the other students and I went to Akureyri's mall. It's pretty small but they have a Toys 'R Us and a Levi Strauss store (pretty American). There's also a 66 degrees North store, which is like Iceland's version of North Face. They have some great outdoor and camping gear, but like most things in Iceland, it's all ridiculously expensive.

Upon returning home I walked across the street to Nina's house, as we had made plans to go out to dinner before our group met up in the evening to see Toy Story 3. We decided to go to Bautinn, a local restaurant that is housed in one of Akureyri's oldest buildings. We thought about trying one of Iceland's traditional dishes, but having had most of them at my host family's house we each ordered the Curried Seafood Pasta. Iceland has a large fishing industry, so as expected the shrimp, scallops and lobster in our pasta were delicious.





After dinner we met up with our group at the theater and bought tickets. Tonight Toy Story 3 was showing in English (rather than dubbed Icelandic, like most of the animated movies). The theater is rather small and only has three screens. Usually only one movie shows at a time. Another thing I found interesting was that the movies have an intermission. Halfway through the movie the screen just shut off and there was a ten minute intermission. The concert I went to on Saturday had an intermission too(our classes also have hourly breaks). Icelanders love their breaks.

Toy Story 3 was amazing. It was nice watching the first two Toy Stories as an elementary school kid and then watching the third one where Andy goes off to college as a college student. I highly recommend going to see it. Here's a great review I stumbled upon the other day.

http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/66799/

Also, below is a picture of a picturesque little courtyard about a block away from my house, A view of the front of my house, and the "verslun" or store across the street, which mainly sells small grocery items.