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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. ~Susan B. Anthony


Graduation day at Holar was last weekend, the picture is not clear but it shows our schools rector (in the cape) and the department heads - fish, horses and birds (as the rural tourism department is sometimes called).
Twas a really nice ceremony - apart from the fact that the chairs were a little tooo hard for what turned out to be almost a 2 hour ceremony.
So, now school is over - well sort of - there is a four week summer school programme happening at the moment. Does this mean that work stress is lessening - I don´t think so.... So now begins the tourist season here. Being a major tourist attraction it attracts quite a few visitors, to the church, the archeological dig and basically to the school itself - lots of people have dads, granddads and great granddads as graduates of the place.
In other news: there was a really really big earth quake in the south today
I have borrowed these images from the vedur.is site

This is a map and the big green stars shows where the epicentres of the earthquakes were, I am in the north so we had no idea.

The graph shows the richter scales, the largest was over 6 and as you can see there have been heaps of after shocks. Seems though that all is well, no major damage, no fatalities a few injuries and a lot of property damage - including bridges. Now they have decided that it is probably safe for folks to return to their houses, this is on the news at the moment - has been since it happened at 3.45pm.
It is quite strange, in most countries this would have caused a lot of damage and probably death, I often wonder whether Icelanders are more ready for natures wrath than others, am probably wrong. Will be awaiting the weather reports reaction http://icelandweatherreport.com/ as she is closer to the action and obviously felt what was happening. All the emergency services etc are in action - this country is so good in reacting to these sorts of things. I particularly remember when the westman islands had their eruption - the whole island evacuated within hours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westman_Islands
gives a bit of a history.
Ah living in Iceland, graduation one day - earth moving the next.