Igloo drinks, Aurora and the Icebreaker party preparation

Hello there and sorry for the delay. I've either been busy or lazy, I'll let you decide which it is! First, continuing a recent theme, heres an Aurora picture from friday 13th. On that day the cantina was busy, so we held friday gathering around a camp fire outside the Barracks in Nybyen

but far more exciting was our drinks in the Igloo, as you can see (and I'm ashamed to admit) the roof requires some tinkering, as it started to collapse inwards!


Colin and Brenda enjoy some cans

Despite our intention to make this Longyearbyen Gentlemen's club, we were also joined by barrack 4's Judith and Lisa.

James, Colin, Lisa and Erik in the Igloo

But for the moment anyway, rebuilding the Igloo has been put on hold. Every semester the new students organise a party called the Icebreaker party, with different groups organising theme, food, drink etc. The theme this year is periods of time, so we have tables themed 'before humans', 'Vikings', 'ancient greece and Rome', 'stone age', 'Knights and princesses', 'cowboys and Indians' and the interestingly themed 'the plague' and 'the end'! each table is decorated according to its theme, so I've been hard at work building a stern and bough, a mast and sheilds for a Viking Longboat.

its all built from carboard and tape! the head, modelled, I assure you, on a dragon, reminds me of the worlds most evil mallard! I'm planning on having the bough and stern connected to each end of the table, with the mast between the two connected to a sail hanging from the ceiling and shelilds on the back of each chair. Watch this space for pictures!

About the only other thing of interest at the moment is that we are off to the Kjell Heinrichson observatory tonight 5 til 12 and the same on thursday and friday. However, its really cloudy and most of the instruments are for optical Auroral observation, so it could end up being wasted time! again, watch this space.

Well, I'm off now to finish my longboat, until next time, goodbye!