A school with views and tortillas for life

Nobody in the villa was up when my alarm woke me at 7am on Monday morning. Athéna the cat was the first to wish me a good morning on the stairs to upstairs, even though the night before Jón implied me and Paola to get up well in advance. The man himself joined us halfway between our quick breakfast and chat about our school schedules. Paola and I didn’t seem to have any classes together, but on break time I had lunch with her and an Estonian exchange student Anastasia. In my classes again, I got to think about a project to work with through the month.

When I was done with my classes I still had time waiting Jón’s to end, so I took a walk down the hill till. The view from my school is phenomenal – when you walk through a little neighborhood in the area you get to see the mountains without hindrance. It was windy and raining, and not wanting to get my shoes any more wet I kept my distance from the water line. Even then there was just a lonely road and a field of crass between it and me. After adoring the scenery and foot it a while I catched up with Jón at the school to get a ride home. The weather outside got even worse during our trip back to Kópavogur.

Nobody wanted to leave the villa for the sake of a grocery store- excursion, so we decided it was a tortilla day. I helped Jón with the cooking, he taught me what it meant to make a taco meat sauce Icelandic style – or just a style of his own. Everybody did their part, even little Aré got to slice vegetables with his big sister. In this family everything is team work and frisky.

“In this household we only drink two things – water and pepsi max”, announced the head of the house, pouring water to an ewer and giving me two pepsi bottles to take to the table. The serving was full of colors and Icelandic flavors, even when eating just familiar fast-food. Everybody ate way too much. Paola told us about her upcoming trip to Copenhagen later on the same week, and about her birthday the same day. It also came known that Jón has a side business with horses near by and that the internet at the villa went down thanks to the stormy weather. Fortunately Paola has her GoT on blue-ray.