We've been toying with the idea of moving to Montana - we've scoped out a few rental cabins there that are in absolutely beautiful locations ... it is tempting. Especially, because I think Jason needs to be somewhere like that to recouperate from our year in this city-jungle. We've also felt like perhaps we should be looking overseas. Since we still have very few belongings, it would seem like an ideal time to venture back across one of the oceans for work...so, we've been putting out feelers on both fronts, to see if God would lead us in one of these directions.
While we were sitting at the airport waiting to board our plane to Iceland, I checked my voicemail and had a message from a Christian School in South Korea. The school was interested in recruiting us to their school for the next school year. Jason as a middle school teacher and myself as a business manager. We'd only completed our application for the Network of International Christian Schools less than a week before, so the call caught us completely off guard! Although neither Jason or I had previously had any interest in living in S. Korea, the opportunity seemed nearly perfect ... housing included, a decent stipend, working in an organization with a higher purpose...the only catch, they wanted us in Korea by July 30th and required a 2 year committment. Two things we weren't willing to do. So today, we drafted an e-mail back to the school declining the opportunity...although it was a difficult thing to turn away from, we are trusting that God has something even better for us and are working on resting in His Peace about our future.
high winds. Not the best for sight seeing, but we made the best of it (of course!). Our tour guide spoke excellent english, but had a few funny things...1, she pronounced Viking as Why-king and due to the extensive Viking history in Iceland, said this word A LOT; 2, she pronounced geyser as gay-sir and 3, was very harsh in her warning about not referring the Icelandic Horse (which is the size of a pony), as a pony...which of course only made us want to call it a pony even more!
Next stop was to the beautiful Gullfoss waterfall, where an unbelievable amount of water just seemed to disappear into a huge crevice of lava rock:
Our next stop was at a very fun geothermal area - it was so unique to see boiling hot pools and spouting geysers while it was snowing all around us! Two more things that were fun about this place is that the geyser went off every 3-5 minutes and the Icelandics don't seem to be quite as safety conscious, so we were able to walk right up to the edge of the geyser!
Day Three -- We awoke to see a tiny bit of SUN from our room for the first time since we arrived. It was incredible to see how excited that made us. We spent the day walking all over Reykjavik and enjoying having "morning" light all day since the sun never rose higher in the sky than that due to how far north Iceland is.
When Jason met me at the subway station tonight to walk me home, I could tell something wasn't quite right...when I asked, he tilted his head so that I could see a large bandage on his neck and commented that it had been an interesting day. When I pumped him for a little more information, he told me that two of his female students had gotten into a fight outside his classroom and without a second thought, he'd jumped in-between them to break it up. Unfortunately, they were still fighting and his neck sustained a 2-3 inch jagged cut (from one of the girls fingernails). Ouch!!
Although it was very cold today and I was fighting a swollen throat, we decided to try to catch a bit of the parade through Chinatown in celebration of the Lunar New Year which was on the 7th...bringing in the Year of the Rat. We didn't stay long, I hadn't worn enough layers to keep myself warm, but we saw a few dragons and enjoyed the many confetti rockets going off around us. 
