Well hey, guys – I’m back and it’s Sunday (no way. I’m on a roll ...) and well, not too much has really happened this week except that it’s now HEYSTFERIA which looks like hysteria but means Autumn holidays. We only get a week but that’s OK, considering the term lasted only 8 weeks.

School finished on Friday – I got a good deal in that I finished at 11.30AM and then the AFS girls (Stacey, Lisa and I plus Katharina and Celeste who live in other towns) started planning our holidays. We are using a house belonging to Katharina’s host parents in a tiny town called Skælling, seriously tiny – I think there are four houses, and maybe five at the most. It’s very small, anyway. So we’re meeting there tomorrow – Skælling is about 45 minutes drive from Tórshavn – and we shall watch movies, paint our nails and just generally talk about everything that’s happened so far on our exchanges. We don’t see Katharina and Celeste very often as they go to the other school (yes, there are only two high schools in the Faroe Islands) so I’m really looking forward to talking to them again. We’re staying in Skælling for about four days.

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to go to a soccer game at the local stadium – it was a pretty big game as the Faroe Islands were playing France. Everyone was pretty enthusiastic (and there were 10 very loud people supporting France) which was kinda fun as everyone knew the Faroes were going to get thrashed. One of my customers back at New World asked once where I was going, and I was astounded that he knew where the Faroes were, and well, that they even existed, until he said that it was only because of their amazingly bad soccer team. Well, yeah. He was right. France beat us 6-0 and the Faroe Islanders were happy with that because let’s face it, it could have been so much worse. The funniest thing happened during the game, though – everyone was yelling in Faroese (“Kom sá, Føroyingar”, “Kom NÚ!”) and then suddenly I heard this very very strong Scottish accent yelling, “GO HOME AND EAT CHEESE” at the French supporters, which made me laugh. A lot. So that was fun, if a little depressing.

Anyway, I’m going to go and finish packing for Skælling now – I made an awful lot of afghans for us and Lisa is making an Austrian chocolate cake (mmmm), so I think I may come back obese. But ah well.
Kelsy