Friday, May 2, 2008


A bit about school, Fjölbrautaskóli Suðurlands


The school was founded in 1981 here in Selfoss but in 1983 the counties in the South of Iceland came involved with the school. The school is run by the government and the communes in South of Iceland.

The school consists of about 900 students  not only from Selfoss but from all over our region(S-Iceland) and 110 employees. The school year here is divided into two semesters, 20th August- 20th December and 4th january- 25th may. We can start our studies in either of the semesters and graduate on either of them as well. Most of the students are in the age from 16-20. We all choose our courses depending on our interests and major. But the study here isn‘t just in the form of books, we can also choose courses like art, sewing and design, wood shop and more courses were we can get more active and use our creativity.  Recently were founded a few academies in the school, that have all been very successful, it started out with just basketball then came handball, football, horses and the latest addition gymnastic that is starting next fall. They‘re all very ambitious and require a lot of discipline since in most of them you have practice twice a day, before school and after school, you‘re not allowed to drink alcohol or use any drugs, good grades are needed along with skills in the that sport. We also have a big choir that is still growing every year.

The school sees to that the inmates at the prison near by get proper education and the patients at the psychiatric ward that is also near by. There is even one of the inmates that actually attends classes along with the rest of us, and has done for about 3 years now and is graduating this semester. 

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