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
An investigation of Iceland’s strive for recognition during the crash
Iceland, a country that lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and is isolated from North American and European soil, has essentially been ignored by the rest of the world for over 1,000 years. Interestingly, Icelanders developed a particular psyche in which they...
Learning by Serving
Most Wednesday afternoons since we have arrived in Sólheimar, we have been participating in service learning, helping with various projects and workshops within the community. Some of these projects include the art and ceramics workshops, the troll garden, Sunna...
Morsarjokull and Climbing Svarthamrar
Around 9:20 a.m. on Friday, September 18th the students, including myself, and advisers of the 2015 CELL Fall Semester in Iceland pulled into the entrance for the Skaftafellsjökull visitor center and accompanying trails. Passing the visitor center we proceeded on a...
Icelandic Horse Encounter
Last Wednesday the 7th, after cutting the tenons out of the corner posts on the Troll Garden greenhouse with Joe and Serena, I decided the weather was much too nice to squander indoors. So, instead of returning to Brekkukot, I diverted from Hrisbru and crossed the...
Turf Love
Just outside Selfoss--a town of 6,500 (quite big for Iceland)--the CELL group visited a home and museum, built, owned and run by a vivacious couple in their 60s. Kristine was a biochemist for most of her life, and Hannes an artist, self-taught architect, builder, and...