This is Heather signing in to write my first blog. I have offically been accepted into the University of Iceland. I had to email dozens of people all the time trying to find a research project to be apart of. I couldn't find one in time to get my resident permit, so I entered into Nutrition and Health Sciences, which I find interesting as well and I can always switch to Genetics in the Spring semester. I have all my other paperwork in and now I'm just waiting for my resident permit. It's a lot of paperwork and stuff to do and thank goodness I have my great boyfriend (Finnur) and his mom to help me since I can't be there. Right now I am working for the next 2 weeks until I leave for Iceland, which will be July 21st at 4:35pm (I already bought the plane ticket)!!! Waiting to leave is so hard. Almost as hard as trying to learn Icelandic (only like at most 400,000 people speak it). So, I arrive in Iceland on the 22nd of July at 6:40am and then Finnur and I are flying out of Iceland to London, England on July 23rd at 3:45pm for a vacation (tickets have been purchased)! I'm so excited. We are planning on driving to Paris, France which is only about a 4 hour drive. I hope that you will keep checking in on me as I go through the ups and downs of living in a foreign country, learn the language, make friends, study, and move in with my boyfriend.
--Heather
