Time for an update?

Hello... Has it really been 6 months since I last blogged?? Time flies.

To tell you a little bit about my life in the last 6 months I'll begin... here. After my what-to-study-crisis in the fall I decided to finish my semester in the Spanish department and then change once more, this time to studying English. Christmas then came and went, no snow but bloody fucking freezing, Iceland in a nutshell. Christmas is still always a special time and I spent it with my family and friends, doing as little as humanly possible except eating, drinking, playing cards and reading.
January came with all its darkness and so did a new semester. I started in the English department and finally found a subject that I loved... at least for the time being! I studied American literature, American culture and history, history of the English language and English grammar. Everything very interesting and I finished my exams 11th May with good results. A very happy ending of my crisis, this time.
February... I must have been asleep. I remember it being dark, dark, cold, dark and cold. I remember me trying to hold on for dear life in all the darkness and the cold. I must have managed ok.
March... What is there to say? Started working a bit more, found that I had too little to do so I worked two shifts a week instead of one in the old peoples home... 40% work and 100% study... Finally I had enough to do. In March my tiny little choir which me and my 8 friends sing in started rehearsing for real and we set a date for our concert, 3 June... A week to go and we still have oh so many things to do!
April. Easter break came. I had big plans for reading, reading and of course reading because of my laziness earlier in the term. Didn't go as planned, I mostly worked, ate chocolate and was extremely lazy. My sister turned seventeen and is as cute as ever. In the end of April I started my exams and they went better than I had expected.
May came and spring with it. The beginning of May was very nice, sunny and a bit warm. Leaves started appearing on the trees and the people started loosing their grey colour and putting a smile on their faces. I finished my exams, took a week off and started working last monday in Reykjavík Whale Watching. It's a nice job (except when people get seasick and throw up of course...) and I hope I'll see some familiar faces in the whale watching tours this summer... Not throwing up! Maybe from Ry?? ;) I have been on board on a few tours now and just yesterday the weather was so beautiful and we saw lots of whales, it was fantastic.

These are the things I remember from my school and working life at the moment. I also remember having travelled a little bit around Iceland, getting drunk maybe too many times, buying a ticket for Roskilde festival (see you there??), laughing a lot with my fantastic friends and planning a trip to Italy with my mum in the end of August.

So the summer has many great things here in Iceland and great potential this year. The darkness, and actually the night, has left us alltogether for the next 2 and a half months and there is daylight 24 hours a day. The last few days have brought us horrible weather, with snow for example, but now we finally feel summer creeping in on us and it feels fantastic. 8 months of cold, darkness and depression are over, in the summertime Iceland comes alive and it feels like we don't actually need to sleep, only enjoy the light and the beauty of life and our country.

Saying that, I really hope some of you will show your pretty faces in Iceland soon. I can't wait to show someone what it's all about!

So how has your life been??

From a hike me and 3 of my friends took to the highest waterfall in Iceland, Glymur, in september 2006. It was a beautiful day and this hike is always fantastic.

Önundur, Ásdís and Una on our hike. These cliffs were so beautiful.

Traditional Icelandic food includes burned sheep heads. This we had for dinner at my house in February or March, in a traditional Icelandic spirit.

My brother Tómas likes food alot. Especially traditional Icelandic food. He was therefore glad when mum called him and asked him for dinner for "svið", the sheep heads. I didn't eat as much of them as he did, although it's always fun to taste them. My grandmother always ate the eyes as well.
Last saturday I came home from work at the Whale Watching, and ate whale for dinner... Not kidding ;)

Have you forgotten what I look like?? Here is a picture of me and my friend Una at a party in the English department in March. The dark hair is actually gone now, kind of just went away without me doing anything special... Too bad. Now I'm my old blonde again.

Copenhagen...

I'm coming to Copenhagen on 2. november!!! I can't wait, it's gonna be fantastic. See you soon!

A few photos for you

The swimming pool at Seljavellir is an amazing place to visit. If you come to Iceland I promise to show you this well hidden secret!
From Reynisfjara you can see the very special cliffs of Dyrhólaey, with a hole in it. A famous man here in Iceland has actually flown through the hole in his airplane. The sea was crazy that day, unbelievably beautiful!

Me and my friend Ásdís by the waterfall Skógarfoss in the southeast of Iceland.

Sitting in the very special cliffs, the type is called "stuðlaberg", in Reynisfjara in the southeast of Iceland. From the trip to Hvammur, when the sea almost ate us.

New blog.. for news.

Hello beautiful people. I hope you haven´t forgotten me even though I've sucked at that myspace thing... I don´t like that system, not for me thank you. Instead I thougt to myself that this would be a nice way to let people I know around the world, know what I'm up to.

So here I am, at home in Iceland once again. It wasn´t easy coming home I can tell you. I just wasn´t ready for it in some weird way. But hey.. That´s just a better reason to go somewhere again!! I was working for the summer in an old peoples home, mostly night shifts which were booooring but they paid well. The old people were nice of course but many of them were getting so mentally unstable that it wasn´t an easy job.
I started learning "pædagog" in the beginning of September. The day after I started I applied for the University, to start learning Spanish. The other studies were just not for me so I quit all of my subjects except one, developmental psychology, and am now studying Spanish, and loving it. It suits me a lot better and it gives an amazing oppurtunity to travel. Which is a big thing for me right now. I actually can´t wait to pack my backpack and just leave. It´s really a bummer to live in an island in the middle of nowhere... All the flights are so expensive, and I don´t think I´m going to sail anywhere... Just to make that clear.

I´m working in a nice café in downtown Reykjavík every other weekend. The job is nice but the café is so busy that I can´t move my legs after work... From standing and running up and down stairs with trays filled with dirty dishes for 8 hours straight. Soon I´ll begin learning to make coffee and become a coffe bartender. That was of course the main reason I began working there.
Well, summer was here in Iceland for a few days. It was one of the rainiest summers in years and it was really cold as well. When I landed here, coming from England, in the middle of July it was 5°C on the meter... And I froze my ass off. But the nights were bright and the summer was of course beautiful as always.
In the first weekend of August I went to the north of Iceland with three of my friends and we stayed in a tent in a beatiful place at Lake Mývatn for three days. The weather was great and we had a wonderful time walking on one of the biggest volcano craters in the world, taking a bath in naturally warm water (all blue and full of mud), looking at the geysers and the Dark Castles, a kind of elf city (or that was believed in earlier years, although it´s very easy to imagine some other life living there) made of lava from an old volcano eruption.

Since I started school I´ve been active hiking as well... Because you see, we actually have mountains here in Iceland. A week ago me and a few friends walked up to the highest waterfall in Iceland, the weather was beautiful, the trees yellow and red from the autumn, and blueberries to eat all over the place. It was a great day.
Two weeks before that we went up to the countryside, an hour away from Reykjavík, to a house that my friend's family owns. We went to the sea, which was crazy that day, and almost got eaten by it. My friend Una got wet all the way up to her back, I got water into my boots because I couldn´t run for laughing. We went swimming in a really old swimming pool with naturally warm water, which is built in a very special way. One of the walls of the swimming pool is just rocks and then there is the mountain right beside you. We also went to the beautiful waterfall of Skógarfoss and saw the most amazing rainbow.

So, looking back... I have had a great time since I got home, even though I miss Denmark a lot. I hope I can make some money soon to be able to visit you down there in the big flatness.

I´m putting some photos in for you very soon, so you can see what you´re missing, being in Denmark but not in Iceland!!
See you:)