Bless, Bless

Today (well, yesterday) was the last day of our Icelandic classes. We took a ‘test’ and although it wasn’t graded, I felt I did pretty well overall. And I will continue to do fine so long as I don’t speak with anyone over the age of 7 – I have found out that young children are extremely to easy to understand. They are still learning and thus tend to pronunciate words correctly and don’t slur their words or talk to fast like adults do.

The only problem with learning Icelandic is that it is begining to affect my English! I find myself talking differently, although that is mostly a reaction to trying to speak more clearly for Icelanders. Oh, and then the other issue is that the last language I learned was Spanish. Therefore, everytime my teacher asked a question, I felt myself nodding and beginning to say, “Si”. Not surprisingly, Pete has noticed that he does the same thing.

So, now we have about 3 weeks of summer vacation before school starts. Yes, it starts early here, on August 22! I love the Labor Day rule and generally think it is an abomination to start school prior to Labor Day, especially when the summer heat is still overwhelming. However, my kids have been out of school since June 7th AND it is not exactly swelteringly hot here, so I guess I will be ready for them to start!