I saw the Northern Lights for the first time last night. I was driving back from Kaldbak with my friends Sunniva and Christina - we'd been at Sunniva's place eating candy and watching Sweeney Todd. It was 4.30AM when we headed back and as we got in the car I was complaining that I hadn't seen the famous Aurora Borealis yet. Christina said that they came out every night, it was just that cloud prevented us from seeing them.
I was not impressed.
But anyway, halfway back to Havn, the cloud in the sky just kinda parted and I was looking to see if they were there. And there was this greenish light but it wasn't especially exciting looking and I figured I just had a very optimistic imagination.
As we drove into Tórshavn, though, it became obvious that the Lights were out in full force, bright and strong and right above us. The clouds disappeared over to the horizon somewhere and we all got out of the car and just stood watching them for about 15 minutes. Sunniva and Christina said that it was the strongest they'd ever seen them. And they were just like big pillars of green light that shimmer and move. And sometimes turn pink. It was really, really amazing.

But yeah, that's pretty much the most exciting happening of my week - apart from that it's just been school, really - something I DON'T have to deal with this week as we have a massive Faroese essay that we get the whole week for. And we do it at home. Yay! :) I had to translate my story out of Faroese first, though, but thankfully I finished doing that today. It's called Sorg (Sorrow) and is very pretty and poetic and I discovered a lot of very interesting Faroese words - they have words for everything, I swear.
For example:
leikapettini - broken pieces of crockery one finds on a beach.
Clever, huh? And their word for shingles is very good as well - helvitiseldur, which literally means hell's fire.
But yes, Faroese is just one of those very functional languages with words for ... yeah, everything.
Anyway, I think that's about all I had to report except that I am heading to Iceland in 5 days and I can't wait! It shall be wonderfully fun.
And so I'm off ...
Kelsy