{"id":1866,"date":"2016-07-29T04:19:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T08:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/sla2016\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2016-07-29T04:19:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T08:19:56","slug":"bless-bless-island-goodbye-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/2016\/07\/29\/bless-bless-island-goodbye-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Bless bless, \u00cdsland! (Goodbye, Iceland!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately it’s my last day in Iceland. It’s gone by so fast! I still feel like my Icelandic is rather basic, but when I think about how little I could say before I started this program and how much I can use the language now, I realize that I’ve improved exponentially! I’m sad to be leaving Iceland, but at least I have a few books in Icelandic to read until I can return to this wonderful country.<\/p>\n

Sj\u00e1umst, \u00cdsland! (See you later, Iceland!) I will definitely come back!<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/a>

Two Icelanders sit in the garden behind the parliament building (Al\u00feingi).<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Skate<\/a>

Skate park in Reykjav\u00edk.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The statue of Leifur Eir\u00edksson in front of Hallgrimskirkja.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Amy<\/a>

Amy Bloch, a friend of mine from the program (left), and me (right) on Icelandic horses. Photo credit: Courtney Cook<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Cairn<\/a>

Cairn in Kaldidalur (Cold Valley).<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Water<\/a>

Water boiling out of the earth. This energy is used to power greenhouses nearby.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Icelanders<\/a>

Icelanders at Grotta Lighthouse.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately it’s my last day in Iceland. It’s gone by so fast! I still feel like my Icelandic is rather basic, but when I think about how little I could say before I started this program and how much I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iceland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}