12.12.12

i am going to denmark today to meet obama at hviids vinstue, and i will be back on sunday
this is a sirius meeting at kongen nytorv with old friends from greenland

ice-climbing at Solheimajökull (my glacier)

after having had nice and beautifull weather for several week, i decided to go ice-climbing and doing crevasse rescue with Björgunarsveitinia (rescue team) on Sunday. it was below zero but snowing a lot and quite some wind. it took us quite some whiel to get from reykjavik to Hveragerdi where the weather got a lot better, also one of the cars broke down so we had to swap for a big jeep!
at the glacier the weather was fairly good and we had a good day of climbing and learning a lot. as darkness crept in on us we walked down the glacier and drove back to town. i put some more pictures out there!

it was the first time i went up on my glacier, it was very good to see everything from above. i checked a gps position from this summer when i was doing field work and on the actual place the glacier retreated almost 30 meters.
the glacviers has also been measured in the end of november shoving a retreat of 47 meters, which isn´t a lot compared to the 134 meters last year. mayby the climate is shiting again, from warmer to colder...;0)

progress in school...

this is a new map i made of the my glacier and the forfield. different colours and patterns mean different geological settings and landforms. this is just a clip from the whole map without a legend, just to show you how it will look like.
i have to finish this by christmas, aswell as most of my figures and the 1st chapter of the thesis...

so i guess i will be busy in school;0)

weather has been excellent since i came back from greenland, 3 days of rain and the rest of the time beautifull cool weather. today it¨s minus 3 and snowing...

have a nice week-end

well, our friend was sick so we didn't go on the trip on sunday. instead my uncle called and asked us if we could help my cousine Selma to move to a new appartment. this took some hours...
Sunday we went to IKEA and spent some money on shelves, nighttables, drapes and a shoe-rack and the back home to prepare for a small birthday for anna and her sister! after the guests had left we put all the ikea things together so now the appartment looks more like home and no more books all over the floor.

yeasterday i managed to get an appointment for the Swineflue vaccine, Dec.2 hrs 0900. hope i don't catch it before then;0)

my brother, his wife, little baby Ella and four of their friends are coming tomorrow, so there will be a lot of people arpound us for some days. tomorrow we have to pick them up in Keflavik and then go to the Blue Lagoon, which noone here in Iceland can afford anymore, since they increased the prices by several hundreds of percent...

finally week-end

after some long days in school, haning over my school-books and my lap-top i made it to the week-end ;0). i wrote a couple of pages on my master thesis and feel that i have got a good start off. by christmas i have to finish my first chapter for some review and finsih all my maps, figures and sketches. i really hope i will stick to my plan, so i want get stressed up in the end...

if the weather is good tomorrow we will drive towards thorsadalur, a couple of hours away and check out a natural hot pot with some friends and have coffee and cake in a cottage...

 

busy week

this week i had a lot to do in school, working on my thesis and different meetings. i have to make a good plan for finishing my master thesis by the end of May and then stick to it;0)
on friday anna and i went to a 50 year birthday party, which lasted to the early morning. saturday we slept for a long time to catch up with the lack of sleep. the we went to the swimming-pool and then we got picked up by Annas sister and had dinner with her in her hometown Hafnarfjørdur, before going to a 30 year birthday wich also lasted to the early morning. this time we didn't have to take a taxi home, as Annas car was finished at the mechanic:0)
today we did some school work, anna a lot more than me. then we walked to the swimmin-pool at Seltjarnarnes (20 min each way) and swam 40 laps before being half asleep in the hot pots for an hour or so. then we went to an electronic store to buy me an icelandic keyboard for my computer so i can try to write some icelandic;

the weather has been crazy all day with lots of rain and wind. therefore we had some indean food and saw a movie in the cinema...

back in reykjavik

last nigth i came back to Reykjavik, after a 13 hours bus drive from Høfn in Hornafirdi. on the way we stopped to innvestigate many glaciers. this is from a stop at Seljalandsfoss in southern iceland.
we had a good conference with many presentations, long days and bad weather. yeasterday was the only day with good weather. we got some really good food in Høfn (lobster tails etc) had some beer and went to a local party and also a party at the hotel. luckily we didn't get beaten up by the local fishermen....

i put more photos on "my pictures"