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
Culture in the Kitchen
On any given Sunday afternoon you might find an Icelandic household making waffles or pancakes with family or friends to relax and celebrate the weekend. Last week, Herdis and Rosy, fellow Solheimar residents, came over to share this tradition with us as we settled...
Why Iceland?
We arrived in Iceland at 6:40 AM when we deboarded the plane from Boston. It was a long and dark drive to Sólheimar, a drive through which many of us slept with faces pressed against the van windows. The entire first day was a blur to all of us who were trying to...
The Most Impactful Statement
To me, it is often the landscape of a place that has the largest and most impactful statement. From the moment I first saw a glimpse of the Icelandic landscape, I was immediately drawn to its majestic beauty of constant, rolling mountains. Mountains never speak. In...
“Plan B”
On Thursday, February 13, our group was scheduled to go on a trip to go to the Westman Islands. This involved getting up at 6:00 AM and driving so that we could make the ferry that left for the islands at 9:30. When we got to the ferry terminal, we discovered that the...
“A Rock in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean”
Over the course of two weeks, I have experienced so much in all aspects that I cannot easily pick out one single event to represent what I have learned. But if I had to summarize all my experiences, I would say gladly I am able to see so much hope and many...