Keflavik airport, Iceland. Dec 1, 2012.
Luggage, luggage, luggage :) !!! We managed to put ourselves all together as a package to fly home to Canada. It's bittersweet to say g'bye and exciting to be going home (not excited about final exams tho haha). Serendipity found us with a group of Geophyics professors from Univ of Iceland on the plane with us while I studied for my geophysics exam the entire flight. They were headed to a conference in San Fransico & we recognized each other, altho I was tempted to ask for pointers on the flight, I didn't t :) We watched the sun set literally for 7 hrs as we chased the sun across the curvature of the Earth all the way to Seattle, back in time eight time zones. We left Iceland the same time we arrived in Seattle. Whoa! Time warp symptoms began to occur. Culture 'shock', too, as my brain kept thinking & speaking in Icelandic. We ordered a coffee and i anwered in Icelandic while trying to compute in dollar vs. krona. It was a good laugh. In Seattle, sooo tired we slept on the floor it didn't matter, while waiting for our Kelowna 11pm flight. Was great to be met by mom and friends that we missed - to go home to our own beds. One thing I noticed was how inexpensive food is in Canada, through these 'new' eyes I have now. Also, having to use a car to get place felt like a drag. The pace is faster in Canada, people feel more hurried, less settled in an indecribable way. It feels like immering myelf back into a web that I don't particularly feel the same in. Some people commended how calm i was. How to explain? I don't know...even with 15-hr study days for final exams I know we are fortunate to have immersed ourself in Iceland - it can only make us more aware and feel stretched from growth in invisible places inside of our soul.