Update

Here's an update of what I did this past weekend. Thursday I walked downtown to the bookstore with Emily and our new friend Akeem (he just moved in on Monday). We then got a call from Lauren who was with Begga and they wanted to go out to eat. We decided to go to this place called Vegamot, which doubles as a "hip hop" club during the night. Begga and I split a massive plate of nachos, and the others got huge portions of really good food. :) Thursday night was the premiere of the new Sigur Ros documentary, Inni. I went with my friend Emily and Jordan, and before we went inside to watch the film we saw the lead singer, Jonsi, outside and got to take a picture with him! It was pretty exciting for us, although I don't think Jonsi liked all the attention. Here in Iceland celebrities are treated as equals and everyone respects their privacy. The movie was great, we sat on the floor of the venue and there were huge speakers so it sounded as if we were actually at a concert. At the end of the film the venue dropped confetti paper on us, just when they did it in the movie during the last song. Then after the movie we went home, had a snack, and hung out in the kitchen for a while.


Friday I got pizza for the second time this week, because it was Domino's MegaWeek! All pizzas were 1390 ISK, which is pretty cheap here and considering they are normally around 2500 ISK.  Begga's sister Auður came for the weekend which is always fun and she gets to borrow her mom's car. Friday night we relaxed in the kitchen, talking and sharing a bag of Doritos. Then Auður took Lauren and I to Hagkaup, it is open 24 hours and has food, clothing, electronics etc. This week they were having American Days!  So I got some Arizona ice tea and we stocked up on chips, salsa, and candy for the night. We got back to the dorm ate some candy, made nachos, and then decided to watch Drop Dead Gorgeous till we were too tired to watch any more.

Saturday we got in the car (yeah!) and went to get some lunch, we ate at this place that sells food, ice cream, and is also a video rental store. Weird but it was good AND cheap. It costs 690 ISK for a soda, cheesburger, and fries. That is ridiculously cheap here. We then went to a health food store and second hand store where I got a big cozy sweater made in Iceland! Then we went to the flea market and I got a jacket for 500ISK (also really cheap..less than $5 USD). After this we went back to the dorm and I took a nap. We were having another party at our dorm, but this time it was for our dear friend Jordan who was getting deported :(. Before the party we celebrated MegaWeek again and got four pizzas for a bunch of us. Then some people started coming over and we moved up to the attic. This was a considerably smaller party than our other one, but it was nice to get to talk to people. We headed downtown for a bit and ended the night at our favorite hot dog stand, which as you now I frequent pretty often, but it is always with Jordan. Sunday we mostly just lounged around the dorm, I skyped my mom for two hours and then I went to church with my friend Lauren. Around 9pm we decided we should make Jordan a cake so Begga found us a recipe she knew. It was a chocolate cake with a chocolate/coffee icing. It was pretty delicious and nice way to spend our last night together. Here is the recipe:

Skúffukaka
2 eggs
4 ½ dl sugar
2 ¼ dl milk
6 ¼ dl flour
4 ½ teaspoons baking powder
225 g margarine
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
1 ½ tablespoons cocoa

Whip together eggs and sugar. Stir dry matter into. Melt and cool margarine, add milk.. Cocoa and vanilla last. Bake at 200 ° C for 15 min

Icing
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons strong coffee
1 tablespoon cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla
All mixed with a 3 ½ dl icing sugar, placed on the cake while it's warm.

Monday was Jordan's last day here. The reason he had to leave was because he is 17 and you can only get a student permit if you are 18, even though he is enrolled in the university and had been here a month. By staying he risked getting blacklisted to all of Europe and he didn't want to risk that. So he had to leave us around 2:30pm. Before he left he was interviewed because he is kind of famous here in Iceland. He taught himself Icelandic in three years back in Vancouver, and because of that was interviewed on Icelandic tv back in April. This time they interviewed him about getting deported and they filmed all of us saying goodbye to him, so we were on the channel 2 news! Here is the link to the page:  http://www.visir.is/urvalsnamsmadur-rekinn-ur-landi-vegna-aldurs/article/2011110929246?fb_ref=top&fb_source=other_multiline. That's the story, which you can translate in google translate, there is also a video to the right of the picture. Best part of the translation: "Jordan said goodbye to his friends at the university today and flew home to Canada where he has to wait to be old enough. His friends were so bent with grief that they wept."    That may have been an exaggeration by the reporters haha. Although we weren't so bent with grief that we wept, we were really bummed and will miss Jordan dearly. He is coming back for the next semester, but since I am only here for one semester I may not see him. But regardless we will stay in touch and we are already planning on skyping him real soon! 

Screenshot from the news!