CELL News
Our CELL News section provides information, updates, and feedback for past, current, and future CELL students. A CELL experience is more than an exciting “study abroad” program. The purpose of any CELL experience is to ignite a life-long commitment to living sustainably and to giving and receiving support for this commitment through community. Students are introduced to concepts of sustainability during their semester abroad program, but more importantly, once they return home, they learn how to employ these concepts in their own lives through living sustainably and through implementing sustainability action plans in various communities.
Recent Blog Posts
A Dynamic Landscape
It has been just over two weeks since I arrived in Iceland and I feel like I have lived here both a lifetime and only a day. The land is harsh here with its almost constant wind and rain, yet there are days like today were it is sunny and the surroundings are dramatic...
Soul Food
I have only pleasant memories of working in gardens and greenhouses throughout my life. Perhaps I shouldn’t even call it “working” because of the amount of joy these experiences give me. Here at Solheimar, I have had the pleasure of working in two greenhouses. Each...
At the End of the Rainbow
Growing up, we were taught that at the end of the rainbow you could find a pot of gold, and possibly a Leprechaun guarding it. Through our youngest years, my friends and I searched and chased, hoping to find that elusive end of the rainbow. We were more interested in...
Sometimes you have to go above the clouds to think clearly
Sometimes you have to go above the clouds to think clearly. When I was sitting on this slope over looking glaciers and an ice cap I felt so at peace. All my troubles below the clouds seemed to just wisp away like the mist of the rain that had previously fallen on us....
Living in Iceland
Iceland has a unique landscape that has been shaped by volcanic activity. Because of the geologically young and active volcanoes that exist here as well as the position of the tectonic plate boundaries, the underground temperatures in this area are extremely...