Well HELLO, first blog of September.
It's the 3rd today, and it's insane to think that I haven't seen New Zealand for over a month.
I'm really starting to feel like This is The Place I'm Supposed To Be, and that's big. It's really fantastic.

Today is one of the beautiful Faroese days you get when there's no wind, rain or fog, and the sun shines and it's warm, not hot, but at least warm, and the sea is flat and calm and only a little darker than the sky. The islands themselves are the greenest thing I think I've ever seen.
It's weird, though, living here in Hoyvík, because I have a view straight out over the ocean. It's beautiful, but a little overwhelming. When I look at the horizon, I see no islands. Just a straight line between ocean and sky (sjógvur og luft) and nothing beyond. My idea of the sea has always been the Gulf Harbour, where islands dot the horizon in every direction. It doesn't seem so spacious. But here, the nothingness, the knowledge that these tiny islands are the only thing for thousands of kilometres in all directions, is a little strange. And difficult to get used to. The landbound horizons are also strange, for a different reason. There are no trees. They just don't exist here, except in some gardens, where people cultivate them and protect them from the animals that wander free around the villages and roads.

Yeah, this is different from New Zealand.

My school is also very different, as I explained a few posts ag, but I can get used to that as well. Everyone is so kind. One girl translated an entire period's biology notes for me, from Danish into Faroese AND English, then gave me a list of all the words that weren't universal, and what they meant. And they just do this for me. Because they can. No matter what class I'm in, or who I sit with, the person next to me is always willing to translate.
Today, my class went into town, because we had 2.5hrs free as our English (Enskt) class was cancelled. So everyone wandered around in the mall for a while, and then we headed back.
Our art class was good fun - we got put out, so to speak, to draw nature. I drew a leaf. Sadly, I can't draw, so I put a little label on it with an arrow, that says leaf. And another, in Faroese - blað, and another in Danish (blad), because that's the language my teacher speaks.
So that was fun. I finished school at about 1.30PM, but for the previous hour and a half, we had just sat in the sun and discussed .. everything. It's really gratifying when people start to speak English, because there's nobody else they could be talking to but you, and it makes you realise that yes, they want to include you.

And now, because the sun is still shining beautifully, I may go for a walk into Old Hoyvík, which is a very cute little village just across the road.
Kelsy

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