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today i climbed A Very Steep Mountain. i am very happy i made it down in one piece.
i climbed against my fear because the mountain was very beautiful & i wanted to see what was on the other side. perhaps it would have been fine on a less windy & grey day but not on this day when my sense failed me. sometimes i don´t like being part of the adventures i have made for myself. my heart was beating far too fast for comfort.
i cam currently in vik. i an in vik for multiple reasons but i think deep down The Reason i wanted to be in vik was because i wanted to get as close to the exploding volcano (before it was not recommended for health and safety reasons).
it is very eerie here. i have never been in an environment quite like this. imagine a photo with all the exposure and contrast and color taken out of it & add a grey haze (ash and dust) and you´re getting close to what it looks like.
like last year when iceland erupted, i do not know how big or small this news is in the world because of my isolation from media but when i was told of this news by reykjavik locals they talked about it as if it were just another eruption & not a huge deal despite the fact this eruption is even bigger than last year´s now-famous volcanic eruption.
what makes it a news headline completely depends on where the wind blows the ash. last year the wind blew the ash directly south & there was lots & lots of ash & so it stopped air traffic. this year the wind is blowing the ash more evenly everywhere & this eruption has produced less ash because of the way the volcano or lava is so i imagine this is less of a news headline. with that said the airport was closed for a day (prompting me to right a poem called 'all my friends are stuck in the airport' because many seeds people were supposed to leave that day) and the south / southwest roads have been blocked off so no cars can go through.
i´ll stay in vik for a few days & explore the black sand beach & the cool troll ship which turned to stone & the mountains which are covered in the coolest mixture of fresh soft green & ancient brown rock.
vik, like most of the south is very active volcanically & there is one volcano just north of here that is due to blow any year now. because of this they have a neat book called 'eruption emergency guidelines' that everyone here is supposed to read. i thought it was pretty cool.
on friday i will head north with only 5 others for the next workcamp. i have met the 2 camp leaders (both girls) already & there will be only 3 others 'short-term' volunteers. quite a change from the 10 volunteers and one camp leader i had in the west fjords.
thank you all for the emails and comments you have left me! i read them all with much enjoyment.
bless.
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