Vestmanneyjar-West Man-Islands are many small islands outside of iceland. We don't live on all of them. You can live at the biggest one called Heimaey, but we do call Heimey Vestmanneyjar. There are two volcanoes on Vestmanneyjar, Eldfell and Helgafell.

Baby-puffin catching

In August, all the baby-puffin jump on the island because they think they are jumping out to the sea. They come only at night because then the lights shine from the lamppost and the baby-puffins think the light are a flash from the sea. All the kids go out at night to catch the baby-puffins and throw them in the sea so they can stay alive.

The weather in Iceland it is cold in the winter and it snows sometimes, and when it is snows we often get hail. It also reins a lot in the winter. In the summer it can be very hot, like this summer it was very, very hot. In the summer it feels very hot when it is above 15ªC because it is quite dry.

Kerió is 270 m long and 170 m wide. The deep of the hole is 55 m and there is a little lake in the botton that is 7 to 14 m in depth. The height of the water depends on the ground water. The lava there is almost the only thing that is around the place but are disappearing under summerhouses. The lava covers 54 km2 and it is believed that there are 12 active volcanoes under the lava the Langjökulsbeltinu.

Kerió is a detonation crater and some people think it is a drain after the mountain collapsed. Once there were held concert on a raft in the middle of the lake. The place is known for the sound it carries, the acoustics.

Icelandic horses

Icelandic horses are smaller, stronger and more colorful than most foreign horses. Icelandic horses go grazing on farmlands in the country in spring and live wild until December when they come back to the stables. Once they are in the stables, they are used for riding until they go back again next spring. Icelandic horses can trot, gait, amble and gallop, Icelandic horses can gait but foreign horses can't Horse riding is a popular sport.

Hafnarfjördur is my town. There are two sports teams: Haukar and FH.
People in Hafnarfjördour in August 2004 numbered 21.731. In Hafnarfjördur there are 7 schools.
The newest school is Áslandsskóli, which is our school, there are 440 children.

Landscape
We have a lot of mountains, like 1/3 of Iceland is the highland. We don't have big trees, there's an old joke about Icelandic forests: if you get lost in an Icelandic forests, what do you do? Stand up! Geysers are called after our biggest geysers, Geysir, which is almost dead now. We have a lot of glaciers and volcanoes. One of our volcanoes always erupts in 10 years waiting (or a least it did :-/).

There are many geysers in Iceland bith big and small, all of them have hot water which causes of steam. People and many tourists that visit Iceland enjoy going to Gullfoss and Geysir to see the bautiful nature and Geysir itself. Trough the centuries Geysir has gotten a little bit old and weak, and is not that likely to steam up at any time soon but a few times there has been spilled some soap in it which causes it to steam up. Geysir is not the only Geyser in that area so yo won't be disappointed if you will not catch Geysir it self.

Björk. She is from Iceland and she is a vere famous musician. Se is very famous here in Iceland and many places, she has just released a new album. The name of the album is Medúlla. Her best known album is Debut which was released in 1993. Björk sang the opening song of the Olympic 2004. :-)

In Iceland we have lot of glaciers, about 10 and the biggest is Vatnajokull and it is the biggest in Europe too. The most popular glaciers ares Hofsjokull, Snæfellsjokull, Langjokull, Myrdalskull and of course Vatnajokull. In our folk stories there is one story that says one night on every year came all aliens in the whole world togheter on Snaæfellsjökul and had a meeting. But now I want to tell you more about Vatnajokull, it covers about 8% of the country and it is seven central volcanoes under the ice.

This is the eruption in Vatnajokull the year 1998.

The Blue lagoon is not an ordinary swimming pool. The outdoor pool is made of rock. Icelandic and foreigners go often to the blue lagoon. There is silicon dioxid that heals skin, for example, people thet have psoriasis go there often to heal their skin.

There is very hot water that comes from the ground and people like it. The water is blue. The people have turned the blue lagoon into a beatiful restaurant. This is a place for tourists.

Entertainment
In Iceland, there are plenty of things to do! We have lots of museums, Árbæjarsafnio, Pjóominjasafnio and lots of more! And we got two big malls, they are called Smáralind and Kringla! We have got a shop-street, its name is Laugarvegurinn, there are lots of shops. We got a lot of cinema in Iceland and they are popular to go in movies in holiday. When guest from other country come in visit go they and look at Gullfoss and Geysir! They goes to in Blue Lagoon.

Gullfoss
Gullfoss is a big waterfall in Iceland. Gullfoss is a very cool waterfall, there is very much tourism. Gullfoss is not a very long way from Geysir, takes only 20 minutes to drive.

Sports
We play a lot of sports here on Icekand for exemple, basketball, soccer, handball and the newest thing, is paintball. We have some famous sportplayers like: Eiour Smári Guojónssen in soccer, Jón Arnór Stefánsson in basketball and Ólafur Stefánsson in handball. In Olympics we competed in swimming, athletics, ahandball and gymnastics.

Food in Iceland
Hi may name is Bimir, I live in Iceland. The best food in Iceland is pizza but we eat a lot of nasty food like sheep testicles, sheep faces, haggis and sharks. Don't think that we are some barbarians because we hardly ever eat that stuff. There is only one day a year that we eat that food. And that is our Farmer's day in February.

 

Every year in Iceland we have a culture night in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland, at the end of August. Then there are every where in the capital city, there are everywhere some kind of cultural shows for example, art exhibitions, dance shows and many other choices. All day, there are many Icelandic bands playing music. When all this end at eleven o'clock, there is a very big firework show that is very beautiful.