Day 5: Tom Tyrrell-Edwards

We all had an early start to the day, waking up and having breakfast by 7.30am. First of all we set off on a ferry which lasted about 35 minutes, from Iceland to Heimaey Island. A member from our school dropped a plastic bag and Rohan K was determined to catch it while the wind was blowing a gale. While Rohan was running after the bag the rest of the group were cheering him on, after about 5 minutes he managed to stop the bag. David led the crew to the volcano, the wind was ridiculous all while we were walking around the town. It took us about 30 minutes to walk all the way to the tip of the volcano, which was very tiring. The path up the volcano in some places was very steep. At the top of the volcano we all took plenty of selfies, the views of the town were spectacular, we noticed that there were some parts of the town were covered in ash and pumice. There were streets which had building missing under the ash, the numbers on the houses would go 13,11,9 and then stop. We saw building which had been destroyed and the only remains were the iron in the building. We walked though the town via a shop which sold hot chocolate (yum yum). For some reason the teachers trusted us to meet the at the harbour at 5pm. We got on the ship and headed straight back for Iceland there were a couple of people with green faces but the spirit stayed high, when we got back to the port we got back on the bus. During the journey we blasted the songs out loud and arrived at the hotel at 8.30pm where we had dinner and happily went to bed.