Well, happy 2008! Um, what has happened this week? I really can't think of anything particularly special except for NEW YEARS'! That was an epic night - I made it to bed at 9PM on the 1st of January. Ouch!!

But yes, it's a big family thing here and I was at home for the bells, where we all drank lots of champagne and watched everyone elses' fireworks. My host family had held a big dinner that night with my host dad's two sisters and their families and my host mum's sister from Klaksvík. My host grandad was also there, so we were about 20 people all up and it was lots of fun. My host cousin, Jón Petur, informed me that I simply had to watch the 90th birthday, which is a British comedy clip that has been on Faroese television on New Year's Eve since the '70s when it was made. It involves the line, 'Same procedure as last year, James,' which all Faroese people use. ALL OF THEM! I was very, very confused until I watched it last Sunday.

After midnight everyone made speeches in Faroese and it was all very fun, I trod on some poor dog's ear, I think the dog belonged to my host cousin Kristian but not entirely sure. And then I was driven up to my friend's place at Berjabrekka where I had finally found a venue for my class New Years' party (How is it that I always wind up organising New Years'?). There weren't so many from our class there, mainly because the dude I got to invite everyone invited selectively, but everyone brought other people so we had a nice little group there. It was a great party and everyone had loads of fun which is always great. However, having started a wee bit late we never made it into town which was a shame, but we did decide to party until the sun rose, which was at about 10AM. And then we made breakfast and sat around whinging about how it was raining and so going home wouldn't be an awful lot of fun as we all had to walk. I think I left at about 1PM. But yeah, wonderful fun.

Anyway, so that was my New Years' ... what else has happened this week? Not much ... yeah no really nothing at all. I spent last night watching movies with 2 of my friends. We watched Amélie, which is in French, and we watched it with Danish subtitles. I don't know if I understood the French, the Danish, or was just remembering it from having watched it with English titles, but I got it.

Mm, yeah ... Stacey and I went shopping on the 2nd or the 3rd or something ... but that's quite usual really.

There is a man on TV trying out coffins. He's speaking Danish so I'm not entirely sure why.

School goes back tomorrow - it feels unutterably strange, this whole 2 weeks of Christmas holidays thing. I clicked a little while ago that I get no summer holidays for 2 years because of this exchange. Darn. But ah, well. School fills time and it's not like I do an awful lot of work anyway! I'm not impressed though, my first class of the term is PHYSICS. An entire hour and a half of it. Not good. But hey, we get by. Hmm yeah I am chucking in a few photos from New Years'. Don't worry, people don't usually smoke cigars here - it's just a tradition for all the guys to do it at New Years'. Weird, I agree.

Mm, anyway, I think that is about it. It's really cold here at the moment. We went walking in this Velbastaður place today. I wore two pairs of socks, jeans, 2 shirts, 2 jumpers, a jacket, a scarf, a hat and gloves and I was still cold. Ugh. View was nice, though. Always is.

Anyways, yeah ... hope everybody had a GREAT New Years', and I will see you all in 6 months or so.

Lots of love, Kelsy :)