"You'll never know if you don't go. You'll never shine if you don't glow."

[corknut]

So I haven't said much about this because I didn't want to get all excited and then disappoint myself if it didn't work out, but I've been looking into cheap flights/hostel stays in places where it's the travel off-season right now. At first I was seriously considering going to Guatemala to volunteer short-term with some building projects at Casa Guatemala (I'd love to volunteer/work somewhere like that long-term too, but it's not really possible at this point in my life for a variety of reasons), but even though I found some really cheap flights, it's still hurricane season until late November, so I ended up abandoning that idea. Thennnn I started looking into Europe, and ended up choosing Iceland, which has flights that are only a little more expensive than some of the Central America ones I found. Today I was finally able to finalize things, and unless something unexpected and horrible comes up, I'll be heading off to Reykjavík for eight days in late October/early November. I'm really, really looking forward to this; you have no idea. I plan on keeping in touch/hopefully doing day-by-day updates the way I did on my train trip-- the hostel I'll be staying at has wireless in the common rooms, as well as some internet-enabled computers if for some reason using mine doesn't work out.

I'm also going to try to get some pictures of Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano that erupted in 2010, for my sister (she likes the name, has named a music composition for school after it, and is proud of the fact that she can pronounce it correctly). I have a couple people friended on here who know her, so don't tell her! It's a surprise. :P

Comments

[century-fox.livejournal.com]

OMG YOU'RE GOING TO ICELAND THAT'S SO AWESOME
I LOVE ICELAND BECAUSE IT HAS NO ARMY
ALSO IT'S JUST AWESOME

[banerry.livejournal.com]

YOU WILL GET SO MANY PICTURES.

Also I haven't dragged you up to New Hampshire yet, what is up with that 8( SOMEDAY I WILL.

[rinhriveiel.livejournal.com]

Lol coincidence! I have a prof (or, y'know, former prof) who's going to Iceland for a conference on... I think Middle English? X'D She's actually leaving in just a few days! (She used to live in Iceland, actually.) This is AWESOME and I'm UBER psyched for you! YAY PICTURES AND STUFF. XD ♥

[banerry.livejournal.com]

Oh man I'd so go to that conference. Or like... any conference having to do with languages, dead or not.

I'm going to take as many pictures as I can, so you'll definitely see them either here or on Facebook. ♥ ♥

[rinhriveiel.livejournal.com]

Her Iceland paper places the Alliterative Revival in its social and historical content, and then examines what this innovation changed in the way poems were put together. (C&P'd from the message in which we were talking about it. X'D) She's going to present the paper at the conference.

I wld love to go to one of them, but they're generally expensive, so I think most people who go are academics in the field who get their workplaces to pay for it. X'DDDDDDD So... we have to get PhDs in linguistics? (Not that I'd mind that, too much, 'cept for the uber debt...)

DESCRIPTIONS, TOO. Pics even of your hostel, lady (Idk if I'll ever go to Iceland, but it's always good to have opinions of hostels bc lots of times it's hit-or-miss; y'never know exactly what you're gonna get)!

I think it's awesome that you're gonna take pics for Jen. ^^ lol she'll prob be jealous, too ;D

Do you happen to know anyone at all over there, or is this just ~a trip~?

[banerry.livejournal.com]

I'll try to get pictures of EVERYTHING, hostel included! :P The reviews I've seen if it are generally very good (hostels.com gives it a 98%), so hopefully I'll only have positive things to report back.

I don't know anyone there, so yeah, it's just a trip.