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
Summit Fever
Right is a scenic panorama taken from the summit of local Mount Hestur. The mountain, which is little more than a bump by Icelandic standards, is nonetheless the most distinguishable geologic feature within hiking distance of Solheimar. At least, this is the...
The day I applied to CELL, I looked everything up about Iceland, the food, language, what the weather was like: it all sounded amazing. The one thing that really stood out to me was the northern lights. I saw pictures and heard people talking about them and how unique...
The Besotted Musings of an American in Sólheimar
I have found it difficult to choose just one isolated experience that has most impacted me in my brief time in Iceland thus far, so I've decided to dissent from doing so. Iceland is a land that hints at magic and mischievousness and breathes life. Poetry bubbles up...
Surreal Sights
Iceland has spent the last three weeks showing me the earth in a way that has been both heartbreaking and inspiring. I do not have the capacity to see all that is happening to our earth and I am sure I never will, but I have found more and more the importance of the...
Lost in time with the horses…
I would never have considered myself a “horse-girl”, but I have always loved these large animals. Having the opportunity to attend Réttir in Reykhólt, Iceland, I may have changed my mind about considering myself a “horse-girl.” These small community gatherings take...