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Doctors, Clinics, Medicine Posted by sequoia on Apr 3, 2012
Edit: This is a very long post, I’ve edited it to make it a little more concise but I’ll do shorter ones in the future. Also, welcome, Hulda! Sometimes when I find new things or people correct me I go back and edit old posts to reflect the new information. For example, I added a…
Phones and texts Posted by sequoia on Mar 16, 2012
I have saved a few texts (SMSes) from my time in Iceland. Texting is used a lot in Iceland. The bookstore might text you if you ordered a book and it came in, same with the library, the doctor will text you to remind you about an appointment, even a pizza place might text to…
Cooking and Seasoning Info Posted by sequoia on Jan 29, 2012
I’m from America, so I don’t know everything about how they cook in the rest of Europe (or anything about the rest of the world). My observations will be based off that. First, here is a list of seasoning terms (if you want any more, just let me know). However, half the time you’ll only…
Icelandic sample exams Posted by sequoia on Jan 25, 2012
This post is for the person who wanted to know about the exams for the Icelandic courses. Unfortunately this might be too late to help them, but hopefully it can help someone else. The first thing you need to know is that there are two different “Icelandic for foreigners” courses at the University of Iceland…
University of Iceland Posted by sequoia on Dec 3, 2011
I’ve been going to the University of Iceland for three semesters now, so here’s some stuff I’ve learned. Most people are fairly lax about rules in Iceland, whether it’s your employer, the government, or your teachers. For example, if you have a homework assignment due on Tuesday, you could turn it in next week and…
Websites in Icelandic Posted by sequoia on Nov 27, 2011
Hopefully this post is useful. If you don’t like posts where I just link things, tell me and I won’t make one like this again. Here’s a list of things that can be set to Icelandic, either through changing Firefox’s language settings in the preferences section or by your personal setting on the site itself…
Grocery stores in Iceland Posted by sequoia on Nov 10, 2011
Sometimes you’ll see food trucks like these parked in random places around town: “The wafflewagon”. It basically drives around to wherever anything is happening and sells waffles that are made inside the wagon, with toppings like ice cream and chocolate. Sorry for the bad photo, it’s really hard to take a good one without flash…