"Praise the Lord, oh glory day
Fine rays of the sun enlivens
all life around the world
Give us, Lord, good things to practise
Give us peace to wake and pray.
Strengthen us and protect."
After the song everyone discusses what they want to accomplish for the day. Today it was raining at 9am so we met inside.
Most of our day was spent at the Sesseljuhus, one of the city's main buildings. A Swedish professor named Wolfgang lead our workshop which was to create a civilization in a spaceship that would travel for 6000 years, have a maximum population of 100 people, and be as sustainable as possible. We split into five different groups and spent the whole day (minus coffee/tea breaks) designing our spaceships. The evening culminated in our presentation to the group. My group was very pragmatic, probably too much for our own good, and created a sustainable spaceship with minimal technology. The funny thing was when we voted on which ship we wanted to live on, the group that practiced sacrifice at age 45 got more votes than ours. I guess people really like technology.
Before dinner a few students and I went on a hike around the town. There were some natural geothermal streams we encountered, and a leaky geothermal pipeline. At the top of a ridge looking over the city there was an Icelandic sculpture which we assumed was a representation of Viking ships.
Today was a long day, and tomorrow we're going to see Gulfoss, a large waterfall, and Geysir (a geyser).
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