How did people react?

I saw something like that from my house.

I think there is something like natural disasters that makes people in Iceland stay closer than other countries. We have eruptions and earthquakes and we have to stay together. The island is very small, just 320.000 people, and when something like that happens, everyone helps each other. We have to help each other to fix our homes, clean the ash, help our animals and fix the roads. I am proud of how we act. For example, here is pictures of my cousin helping other farmers in the ash. He was leading the sheep that was so afraid and could not walk. He was saving their lives. Even thought the volcano is a bad situation we have made it into something positive. Icelandic people are unified.

You can see how dark the smoke was.

My first experience from a volcano was in 2000 when a big volcano close to my home erupted. There was ash everywhere, but nothing really bad happened. The eruption from Eyjafjallajökull did so much more. Sometimes we could not go out and when people were helping each other outside they had to wear masks because of the ash. I practice 3 hours from the volcano and sometimes we could not practice because we could not stay outside because the ash was everywhere. Not just in Iceland, it was in all of Europe. It was funny that small Iceland was in the news everywhere. They had do close the airport in Iceland and in other countries in Europe. A lot of people were just stuck somewhere and could not go home. People from other countries also got mad about the ash and thought Iceland was so annoying, but it was not like we could do anything about it. They probably did not think about how it was to live 30 minutes from the volcano like some people do.

I think an experience like that only makes me stronger as a person. We in Iceland just have to live with it. We learn when we are small how we should react with eruptions and earthquakes. I am still mad about it that I could never go on the top of the volcano to see everything when it had calmed down a little bit. My dad went there twice, but I could never go with him because of my soccer practice. He took a lot of amazing pictures when he was there and all of them are here in my blog.