I'm entering my first year of university next year. I've always wanted to do a summer exchange program to Iceland, to further develop my Icelandic skills as well as learn more about the culture and see the lovely scenery. Do you know of any summer programs in Iceland that would be offered to first year English students from Canada?
For exchange programs there always needs to be a connection between your home university and the Icelandic one. That connection may very well exist or be easy to arrange.
There are all sorts of Icelandic courses and programs. I think they are all listed on this website. The University of Iceland's international office ([email protected]) should be able to answer any questions. Also check out several previous questions regarding studying in Iceland.
As I see you like sloths, you are bound to like lemurs as well. Check out Lemúrinn.is. Lots of fun posts for you to practice your Icelandic on and they are very lemur inclined.
Update This is Eirikur added:
You can let the poster know that the University of Manitoba has a huge relationship with Iceland (only Department of Icelandic outside of Iceland!) and there are a couple university exchange options (HI and University of Akureyri). But, right up her alley might be the Icelandic Field School which is a month-long trip to Iceland where students learn language, culture and literature. I've been and it's amazing. Non-Manitobans can come too! There were two on my trip.