Yo!
So here I am again, on a Monday night, and on Suðuroy. Where is that, you ask? Well, the snowy photos two blogs down are taken in the village of Sumba on Suðuroy, the southernmost island of the Faroes.
Why am I here? Mini-exchange for a week - I go to the Vágs Miðnámsskúlin and it's fun - I am in a class with my host sister Susan who is 16 (she has 3 sisters who are 18, 11ish and 7ish). The class are all girls and all very sweet and have all added me on myspace! Haha.
So yes, I've been here since Friday and I am here until Friday and I have found out that on Suðuroy they eat Weird Food. We had fish cheeks two nights ago, and fish soup the night before that, and tonight ræstan fisk (which is rotten fish which is then boiled, has been explained) and tomorrow night we are eating baby petrels. I am really looking forward to it as I am told baby petrels are delicious. One has to make a special bread to eat with it, apparently. So yes.
Yesterday my host family took me out driving and Suðuroy is really very beautiful - the weather yesterday was fantastic also, sun and blue skies of the sort one never sees in Tórshavn - my host grandad said it was because the gulf stream surrounds Suðuroy and so the other islands can be knee deep in snow while Suðuroy relaxes in balmy seven degree temperatures. It's lovely here - I live in a little village called Porkeri, 5 minutes drive from Vágs where the school is. I will put up air photos of Porkeri soon but not tonight - it's adorable though, there are sheep walking the streets. They live there in the winter and one must be careful driving.
But yes, I have many beautiful photos of the scenery here on Suðuroy which is unutterably lovely.
I get back to Havn on Friday and I am really looking forward to it for a number of reasons - I get to see my class again who I miss dreadfully (if I miss them so badly after 3 days how will I go when I LEAVE?) AND we have a class party on Friday night. And of course I get to see my host family again who were in Klaksvík this weekend. I miss them.
Anyhoo, I do believe that's about it. Everybody leave me comments. Good little fellows. I'm going to go watch Coyote Ugly with my host sisters. Woohoo!
Kelsy