The second day of our mini-World Harmony Run in schools in Reykjavík started at Melaskóli. This was the biggest school on our agenda. Nevertheless, we had time to let everyone hold the torch and the kids seemed to like this a lot.

Moving on to just about the other end of town, we came to Ölduselsskóli. Here we stumbled on a new way of running with the torch, by lining the kids up two-and-two together, each pair of runners holding the torch for 5-10 seconds. A slightly regimented method, perhaps, but highly effective for small groups of children.

Our final school of the day, and of this two-day mini World Harmony Run in Iceland, was Borgaskóli. This was another small school. We assembled in a classroom with 30 kids or so. As every so often, we had technical problems with our slideshow and had to show from our laptop. The kids huddled closely together and there was hardly a whisper. They were absolutely mesmerized. When the final photo of World Harmony Run founder Sri Chinmoy came on screen there was a brief pin-drop silence broken by a little girl's whisper: "This is a beautiful picture."

When we came out of the classroom to run a photographer from one of the main newspapers in Iceland had caught up with us. His picture was published on the newspaper's frontpage the next day.

So, a successful mini-run had ended. This has only whetted our appetite for the real deal in June...

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