The sun shone today.
It had been a while since we had seen it; that is why i noticed the difference. The warm glow of summer is giving way to the pale, white sunlight of winter, easily piercing it's way through the crisp, clear air. The sun will soon be leaving the northern hemisphere, it's already moving away from us here up north. It only rises halfway up to the sky; at this angle, and all through winter it will keep on blinding drivers and pedestrians. Wintertime, that's when you need sunglasses the most, especially when it snows.

I feel like I should be back in school, it's strange not to have any homework to do, no writing papers or anything. It's strange to have nothing to do.
Well, now I have something to do, finally. I'm organising a part of the European Language Day celebrations, on behalf of the Vigdis Finnbogadottir institute of the University of Iceland. (Ay... so many long names and words.) My job is to gather up a group of foreigners, probably mostly exchange students at the university, to go to the high schools of Reykjavik to introduce their language and culture. So I have to find the foreigners who are interested, contact the schools, decide who will go where and what everyone will be doing. And I've got ten days to do it.

Then I'll probably be going to this specialized first aid course 1-10 October: Wilderness First Responder. The basic idea is: first aid in the wilderness with minimum equipment and where one can not call for help. Luckily for me, I haven't had any accidents in the groups I've been guiding so far, but often I have thought: what if someone falls and breaks his leg or if someone has a heart attack right here and now, far from any roads or civilisation as a whole, far from mobile phone coverage to call the rescue squads or the helicopter in an emergency... What would I do? I hope that after this course I'll know.
Then I'll be going for a visit to Washington on 15-25 October, to see if USA is all that great as so many tell me. - And to see if it is all that superficial and arrogant as my prejudice tells me... It will be interesting. My goal is to see as many of America's different faces as I can, I know they are many and I know they are divers. So I hope to reduce my prejudice against Americans by actually getting to know them.

After that... I have no idea what I'll be doing. My goal for the winter is to get some mountaineering experience and to learn to ski, this would help me get a job all year round as a guide. Although I don't see myself as a mountainguide for the rest of my life, this is what I really want to do now. So I'll try to do what it takes.