The Eruption 2010

I still remember the first day when Eyjafjallajökull erupted. I was driving home from a dance that was celebrated in a small farm town. It was dark outside at 11pm. Everyone was still at the dance, but I had to leave early because I had practice in the morning after. When I was driving back home, I saw fire far away. It looked like flames in the mountains. The first thing I thought about was the volcano (My house is in the middle of mountain circle and I can see two volcanoes from there).  It was very late and almost everyone that I knew was drunk at this dance. I got a little bit scared because I do not really watch the news and I did not know if people were expecting an eruption, especially those who were at the dance. My sister was at home pregnant so I called her and told her what I was watching and asked her to look at the news online to see if there was something about the eruption. There was nothing in the news and she just thought I was stupid. She told me that there was probably a burning house there somewhere and I saw it that well because it was so dark outside. I did not say anything to her. I know I say sometimes something stupid, but I knew that this was not a burning house or something like that.

 This night I woke up at 2 am with a text message from my sister. Everywhere in the news there was something about the eruption in Eyjafjallajökull. I slept so bad this night because I was so nervous about the people at that dance. I knew the lava and the water from the eruption could not come to my town, but I knew that the lava from another volcano could go to that small farm town where the dance was, but I did not know the name of it and I was so nervous. I found out the day after that the lava from Eyjafjallajökull could not go to the small farm town. It was the biggest news in Iceland and everyone were talking about it. I could see the smoke from the volcano from my house. It was first in the news at 11:32 pm. In the news they said that they thought it had begun a little bit earlier and that was true. I saw it at 11:05 pm and I was probably one of the first people in all of Iceland.