I've been catching up on reading and working on my project for Iceland with my research group. We've decided that we'll need to reach out to Iceland's Ministry for the Environment as well as the coordinating agencies also working on their Climate Change Strategy, including the Ministry of Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, etc. The group has decided that I will be the official correspondent for the project, mostly because English is my native language, and since none of us speak Icelandic we're going with English. I think our presentation for the project at the end of October will be pretty challenging. Anyone want to try saying Eyjafjallajökull (a volcano); Vatnajökull, Langjökull or Hofsjökull (glaciers) while still sounding professional?
While I'm now being introduced to Icelandic, Swedish is still a challenge. This week I went to a yoga class that was taught completely in Swedish. The only words I understood were in and ut, and I'm sure you can figure out what those mean. Luckily I have done enough yoga and pilates that I was already familiar with all the poses, I just didn't know when the instructor was telling us to do them.
I also come across this weird blog the other day that actually made me laugh harder than it should. Here is the king of Sweden Photoshopped to be wearing different kinds of hats in different settings.
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