I'm in Iceland!!!

Jan. 10  2012

I made it to Iceland safe and sound. If you don't think we have enough sunlight at home, you have to come over here. We only have 5 hours of sunlight each day, not to mention it's always covered by storm clouds. We have 22 inches of wet, sticky, snowman building snow. But I can't go outside, thanks to the 50 mile per hour gusts of wind. Today was supposed to be my first day of school, but of the 90 kids [ 90 for whole school mixed together ] 50 ride the bus from Bifröst to school [ including me ] . With such strong winds,  it would be dangerous on the bus and over half the kids ride the bus, so school was [ and is ] cancelled. My classes are knitting/sewing, swimming [ the swimming pool is at school ], art, drama, religion, Icelandic, gym, English language [ I don't take it ], math, social studies, life skills, home skills. There are 3 buildings for the school and the swimming pool is outside. There are 18 other kids in my class, 15 fifth graders and 3 fourth graders (only boys) not including me. They mixed fourth and fifth grades together because of such small classes.
I was invited to a birthday party for a girl in my class but Mom did not check her email in time for me to go. This made me sad. I can't wait for school tomorrow (if we have it). I hope I make friends tomorrow.
Missing Gunnison and all of my friends,
                       Joslyn