Challenges Ahead

Today was a hot day in Lund--almost 80 degrees! I spent the morning in class, which, as per the Lund tradition, started 15 minutes after the hour, and then included a 20 minute break in the middle. They have a strange concept of class time here in Sweden.

Last week we were mysteriously told that we needed to form groups of four and select an island nation with a population of less than one million. My group selected Iceland. Today we found out that we will be working on a project about Iceland for the next two months. We will need to evaluate their climate change adaptation plan, analyze it, and make suggestions to the plan. We will then need to contact the Icelandic government and inform them of our findings! The goal is to have some kind of correspondence with them and they can either dismiss our findings or possibly incorporate them into their current plan. So we will see what happens!

Svartsengi Geothermal Power Plant - Rejkjanes Peninsula, Iceland

I spent the rest of the day reading in the sun and riding my bike around the city running errands, and the sunny day turned into a rainy evening.