Sunday, December 17, 2006

Johanna Lara Palsdottir --Iceland

The second girl from Iceland is Johanna Lara Palsdottir. She and Kristin were often together at camp although she is from Sauoarkroukur. Not close to Kristin's home town.
We too wrote to one another after the camp was over. She is a wonderful person. For the 10 year anniversary she told me that she was living in the Netherlands and going to the University to get her Master's in Spatial Science. Ok, I wrote that and then needed to answer just was are "spatial sciences"? Well Johanna started out with a degree in Geography. Then moved to spatial science. She can tell you for example, the location of a city by citing the longitude and latitude. She can tell you what type of soil is located there. She can tell you how the geological environment of the area effects that city and also shows how the size and lay of that city compares to others in the world. She is certainly involved in GIS (Geographic Information Systems) which is a computer system that takes geographical information and can make associations depending on your needs. It manipulates a collection of data to create maps that are more detailed than before. Ok, what does that have to do with Campo Italia? Nothing. Just very cutting edge and interesting. Johanna Lara, who now goes by Lara. Where are you? I did find you from the info you gave me 10 years ago. But we lost touch again. Once this is posted I will write to you again. I don't know anything about what has happened in the last 10 years. A lot I am sure. In this picture she is with Mika (Finland), Johanna is in the middle and Kristin (Iceland) is on the right. They are in the parking area of Castelnuovo.

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