First day at school

Boy, has anyone noticed how time flies while lying in bed and then when you finally drag your butt from under the covers and start getting ready to head out the door it's like time slows to a halfdead snail on an evening walk.
I woke up at 8 am and decided that since I was awake I could lie in bed for a few minutes I wouldn't need to get up until at least half past 8 to get ready. Did that, spent even a few more minutes in bed actually, but finally got dressed and started up my computer. I have checked all my e-mails, the latest news and stuff, finished getting everything ready for school and still the clock has not struck 9 am yet. This means that next monday, I will probably not go out of bed until ten minutes to nine ... what can I say, I love my bed.
So, wish me good luck on my first day back in school. Only two classes today, no one is ready yet. I have an hour in Early Gaelic Literature in Translation (sounds exciting doesn't it) and The Historical Development of the Gaelic Language (which really does sound exciting) or it's just me being a geeky nerd.

Connectivity

I got a webcam a few days ago, love it. Love technology. Very happy news.
I also love, being able to be in contact with friends and family. Just today, I was on msn talking to a friend of mine in Iceland and at the same time we were talking to our mutual friend Guðný who is currently in Brasil. Then a few moments later I was talking with my friend Margréti in Sweden through Skype. A lot of things have changes in 50 years or so, when the most you could expect from your loved ones abroad was a letter aound Christmas.

Drive by shooting in Glasgow

Wow, sometimes living in Glasgow can almost make you feel like you live in a Hollywood movie. A few days ago I saw on the news that there had been a drive by shooting on the M8 motorway though Glasgow, not so very far away from where I live. But far enough, so I wasn't bothered. It's not quite as far, but a possible measure would be from Ártúnsholti where I live and almost at the Grensásveg junktion, although not as straight a line as that one. Thankfully no one was killed or even injured, only one car was hit with bullets and they do not think it was pre-meditated shooting.

Web TV ... good thing

Wow, I finally got through the change in my internet connection, so I am now no longer connected through the University. That means that I am able to use Skype for instance, which I could not do before. And boy, do I feel like I have been freed, I am no more limited in my internet use like I was and I am able to be in contact with more people in more ways. But what also has opened my eyes, being able to use the internet more freely here, is the www.ruv.is website where I can watch the news from home as well as Spaugstofan. I watched the last episode yesterday and how I laughed. It was great, a small part of Iceland in my tiny computer in my tiny tiny room here in Glasgow. Nostalgia, it's great!

A weekend in few words ... well not so few!

I must say I had a really nice weekend, but I am getting bored. It feels like it is going to take for ever for the school to start, but then now, when I am so close to going to school and classes I feel as if I want another week off doing nothing that makes sense. For the last few days I have gone shopping and to the cinema just to get out of my itty bitty tiny winy room and get some air. On Saturday, Árdís and me even went to the cinema before noon. Went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and although I am a die hard fan of the old one, I have to say I didn't find this one that bad, although it was not fantastic.
Yesterday we also hit town but for whole different reason than shopping. We decided to dress up and go out on the town. Started with dinner at T.G.I. Friday's and cocktails of course. Then we started aiming for the UGC Cinema, but went to a tiny 24hour for some stuff and by that time we had completely forgotten the cineman and decided to hit the next pub or .... uh skemmtistað, drawing a complete blank on the english word for it. We ended up at Edwards, quite snobbish but not that posh I think, all the guys were searched at the doors before being allowed in, probably to keep from fights (with dangerous weapons) taking place or someone smuggling alcohol or other weird stuff inside. This place was sort of different from many places here in Glasgow, as it was basically two pubs in one, Edwards on the first floor, and on the second floor, where we really wanted to go but couldn't because they had closed of access to it when we finally figured what was up there. The place is called Reflex and is supposedly blasting out all the favorite 80's music. Damn, we wanted to go there, but maybe some other time. It was colorful to say the least to see the Glasgwegian nightlife for your own eyes. Thank God I had Árdís to commentate on it and compare it to the nightlife back home.
But we didn't last very long, me being so old and senile. Árdís commented on that her mother would be very glad to know I was the one going with her out at night, so she would still be coming home and reasonable hours, hehehehe. I still didn't go to sleep until almost 4 am and didn't wake up until 12 pm. Thankfully I hadn't had much to drink last night so I was not suffering any after effects.
Now, today was quite another matter in a fine day definition. Dear God, I swear Glasgow was flooded. It rained not just cats and dogs but a whole zoo. I nearly drowned going into the City Center and back again. I was sooo glad to get home and take a shower, and then finally get dry and warm again, ummm, nice feeling.
Soon, I will be heading to my waiting bed and read a for a few hours, until I fall asleep. School is just approaching way too soon right now, although I have been waiting for it impatiently for ... well, most of september. Now I am not so sure, but hey, we'll see if I am still alive at the end of the week.

Cinema etc

Great news, Árdís arrived yesterday and we are sharing an appartment. We are five now in the appartment, with me and Árdís, Dinesh and then two new additions, Stephanie from Germany and Stuart from Scotland. Have no idea from where, though, or what they are studdying, not had the opportunity to ask them yet.
Árdís and me went shopping to day to mostly spend time but also money, can't really help ourselves. But proudly I didn't spend very much, not that I didn't spend money, but I went into HMV and there was a sale - up to 70% off titles and I left them all alone, completely. I found a lot of titles I wanted but alas they were not on sale, boohooo, the story of me.
Then we decided that we had to spare our bank accounts and headed for the cinema and away from the shops. We waited more than an hour to see Pride and Prejudice, the new english version, with Kiera Knightly. And since I know my friend Hrafnhildur reads this blog I am not going to say anything else, she will just have to see for herself and then we can talk. But I can say this, I STILL LOVE THE BBC VERSION MORE!!!
Enough for now, more news coming soon.

Glasgow again

The flight yesterday went well, flew in to Glasgow through a route I have never travelled before but gave me a good view over the Western Isles and while flying there I checked out some properties that I would like, grins. Then I flew over a magnificent and beautiful house with a very very large garden if you get my meaning, but as we got closer I kind of got this feeling that I had seen this house before and then it clicked. Mount Stuart, went there with my mom and brother a few years ago. It is amazing this place, and quite amusing to come across it in air. Also on the way I saw a windmill farm, and I have to say I did not find it to be a sight pollution at all. It was actually quite nice to see it. Twirling about in a very relaxed way not the whizzing around that gives you a headache.
Came to my room at around 12 o'clock very tired but here. Tried to get my connections working with the computer and when that hadn't begun to work within half an hour I just plain called home. I knew mom was expecting my phonecall. It was good to hear from her, she was babysitting my sick niece and Katrín came on the phone and asked me where I was, when I told her she didn't want to talk to me anymore, she was very little.
I tidied my room and unpacked my bags and then I headed out into city center where I did some emergency shopping for the most basic things that I would need for the day. Then around four I came back to my room and after I had put the groceries away I went to bed and the next time I woke up it was 8 o'clock in the evening.
Had my dinner, and then I turned my computer on and waited to hear from people. Mom and me were trying to work out the new hive-phone but that wasn't working for some unexplainable reason and then Skype wasn't working either so mom tried to phone me the conventional way but she didn't have the right phonenumber the first few times she tried to call me, so in the end I phoned her and then she phoned me and then we tried the hive again and it still didn't work. So who knows what will happen with phone connections in the future, but I hope it will sort itself out in the future.

Big buisness

I am not at the airport waiting for my plane to leave for Glasgow. I have been feeling a bit queasy this morning, I usually do before flying, especially this early in the morning, but I am getting better. I have had some breakfast at the Saga Buisness lounge, which is an incredible experience. Comfort and space, the lounge has been moved from the original spot and is now larger and more modern and techonologically able to serve the buisness people traveling through Iceland. I am both excited and uneasy, uneasy to be leaving everyone behind and also excited to be starting again at Uni.
I miss everyone already and I haven't even left the country yet.
I'll hopefully be in touch later today to tell about the rest of my journey to Queen Margaret Halls, Glasgow!

Snow in Esja

Vow, autumn has fallen, hehehe! I went outside this morning and felt the cold crips air of the mountains hit me in the face. Refreshing!!! It wasn't until a bit later that I looked up to Esja and got a little shock. Esja had gotten a white cap during the night. The white snow line reached almost more than half way down the slopes. It was amazing. It it was necessary to see before leaving the Frost kalda frón. Now it looks like winter is coming sooner than last year and I hope that when I come back home it will be White Christmas.

Glasgow shops beware

Well, here we are again! Mom and me, and no one is holding the purse strings. We arrived yesterday and took the day easy. We arrived in Glasgow shortly before noon, and the rooms weren't ready at the hotel so we went into the city center to get something to eat. Of course the shops near us weren't overlooked so we brought a few bags along with us to the hotel again. Then I went to a quick visit to my room at the Queen Margaret Halls to check if everything is all right. It was so I just went back to the hotel where I found mom in a very good condition. She was hardly affected by all the things we had been doing. She was even in better shape than I was. So we took the rest of the day easy and had dinner at the hotel. It is a really nice hotel, the minibar is free, and there is Gin, Sherry and Whiskey in decanters as well for the guests enjoyment. There is also an Executive Lounge for guests where they can get coffee and all sorts of drinks and alcohol free of charge. Went to bed after reading a few passages of the Black Death (cheery stuff).
Woke up at 7 o'clock in the morning, had breakfast and then headed off to the University. I didn't really feel that I was going to an exam, it sort of just didn't fit into the picture. But everything went fine, I am most likely sure that I didn't fail it so that's for the most part. Just glad it is over. After the exam I went back to the hotel. And yes, Björk, I travelled with the subway!
Then mom and I hit the shots, and oh boy, people who get sales commission and met us are very very happy tonight. Didn't really come home from the shops until 8 o'clock pm, aside from one short stop at the hotel. Then we had dinner again at the hotel, delicious beef fillet. Right now we are just lounging about and watching tv. I think that is an excellent idea, because my feet can't carry me from the chair I am sitting in right now and into the bathroom (and the chair is on wheels). Write more soon and maybe then I will have some pictures to put on the website as well.

Coming and going!

See, not tomorow but Wednesday, I am going to Glasgow for a few days. Have to take an exam, I couldn't take in January. Yup, weird, they have their resits just once a year, annoying too. But anyway, going on Wednesday, which means three days vacation from work, always a plus, but the down side of it is that I won't get paid while I am in Glasgow spending money. Mom is very opptimistic of coming with me, she felt it was time, she had an opperation nearly a year ago and this is sort of a try-out since I will only be going for a few days and she will have me to assist her with everything.
It will be good to get away from work for a few days, although I like working there the customers that I face nearly everyday can sometimes drive my crazy and some of my co-workers really drive me up the wall as well. I nearly snapped the head of one last week, although he deserved it.
Bi mi ag innseachach eachdraidh a-nise, hope I will do ok at the exam on Thursday. It will be nice when it is over, and I can have some fun.
Miss you all my friends far and wide.

Home Alone

Nah, not quite, but my closest friends are now all over the world, spanning 4 continents. Monday my friend Margrét was the last to leave. She was going to Sweden where she will be attending University in Skövde for a year. Miss you already, Margrét and her sister Guðbjört is working for a humanitarian organization in India. My doctor friend Guðný Stella, who graduated as a doctor this summer went on a trip through South-America (and almost got eaten by a fish in the Amazon jungle). Then my friends Hrafnhildur and Guðmundur went for two weeks to Orlando Florida to chill out for winter. Didn't really work as Gummi got sunburned, hehehehe.
So, here I am left all alone home in Iceland, where if my phone rings (at all) my mother cheekily asks if there is anyone left in the country that wants to talk to me. :Þ
Because of this, I have just been having fun of course, working longer hours and doing more work at the genealogy service. Yesterday I stayed at work for nine hours, and most of my time I spent working my ass off, only taking an hour total for lunch and coffee ... eh, coke-break and then I went to the genealogy service where I worked for about two hours. So when I came home I was soooo tired, when I sat down in front of the TV I dosed off. I went to sleep at eleven o'clock last night. That has not happened since I was ten or something, this was soo weird, and weirder ... I slept through the night in the same position all night through.

From the Indian Night, not many pictures were printable on the internet. But these capture the spirit of the night!

Indian night and a dinner with friends

The weekend is almost over and I have been quite busy. Yesterday, my friend Hrabba, Gummi and I had an Indian night theme. It was amazing and worked out well, although we sorely missed our friend Guðný Stellu who is Tarzan-ing through the Amazon jungle from Bolivia to Brasil right about now. Gummi didn't get to wear a turban this year, since I forgot it at home. Sorry Gummi, next time I will definitely remember. Hrabba wore her yellow saree and wow it is yellow. But she was amazing in it, very becoming. I on the other hand wore my new off-white and green salwar kameeze, very nice. We ate quite early and then finished getting ready and went out. Yep, you see, my friend is learning bellydancing and her teacher was moving the place to a different location and it was the opening night, so it was very fitting for us to show up in our "múnderings", well I think that it was, and my god, it was incredible, what she has done with the place, very nice indeed, very cosy. After that the night sort of died down or at least became more relaxed. On the way home, we picked up their friends and had a short quite evening at their place, before the guys went into the city center and a few minutes later my friend gave me a ride home. It was a very nice evening and the food was lovely, but the problem was..... WE MISS YOU GUÐNÝ!!!

Tonight I had dinner with another set of friends. This time with my friend Margrét (who I have known since we were 3 years old) and her boyfriend Krissa. They invited me and Steina, Guðbjörts boyfriend (she is Margréts twin) over for dinner because they are soon leaving the country. Yup, they are going to Sweden for University and they are leaving in a week. So I will be all alone then. The food was absolutely delicious, and now I am absolutely hooked on roasted nuts. The only thing was the same as yesterday, there was someone missing from the party. This time Guðbjört but she is in India, and has been since January so it's been a while since we saw her and we all miss her very much. Anyway I am now getting ready for bed, because I have to wake up tomorrow to go to work.

OOOO, ps. I am getting more and more excited about going back out to Uni in september. I can hardly wait.

My niece inviting me into her house at the sumarb�sta� my brother and family were staying at in the heat. It was an incredible day. Had to share it with you guys. 

Success!!!

I made it. I did it. I got an e-mail from my head of department yesterday ... finally. And he told me that there was a letter on the way but he also told me the context of it. I MADE IT! I got into Single Honors in Celtic, so I have 2 more years left in Uni. Where I will be learning early Irish and medieval Welsh among other very interesting subject. Claire and Joanne and Sharon, girls we are on our way to stardom. Well weird-dom at least, since these medievalists are always quite eccentric and fun to watch.
Yesterday was a great day for me I guess. After getting these wonderful news we, mom, dad, my grandmother and I went for a drive to visit my brother and his family where they were staying for a week at a summerhouse (sumarbústað) near Laugarvatn. When we got there the temperature read 36°c and it was scorching. There was no need to grill anything today, I was already well done. So we went to Hotel Geysir in Haukadal and got incredible good food, with a great view over the geysers erupting. It was amazing, because of the weather and heat, and the sun. But on our way to Selfoss we got caught in fog, but we made it all the way to Hveragerði where we stopped in Eden to get some coffee and final stretch before we went home. In the hills above Hveragerði there was such a thick fog that we were hardly able to follow the road, but as soon as we got to the top the sun was blistering bright and rather difficult to drive because it was eye level with the drivers. But we made it and the sun kept on shining for a while more. But it was the best day we have had for quite some time.

Nuts

I am going nuts, completely. Friday, my mom calls me at work and lets me know that there is a letter from the Univeristy waiting for me. I was soooo pleased, finally the letter I was waiting for had arrived. It was still six hours until I got home, but I made it through the day, even though my friend Kristín volunteered to take me home during coffee break so I could find out what the letter said. She was just as curious. But when I arrived home and after eating dinner I finially opened the letter. Biggest disapointment for months. I am soo mad at them. This was not the letter I was expecting but a letter informing me about changes in payment of tuition fees, something I have known for months. Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggg! I soooo wanted to smash someones face in (and if that person ever reads this blog will know who he is). Why the bloody hell can't the darn department send out the letters. I am going nuts waiting. This letter has some sigificance for me, if it didn't I wouldn't be acting like this. But I am just soo mad right now.

Just a little note

As far as I know, and I am very thankful for it, none of my friends or anyone I know were in London on Thursday when the bombing took place. It was quite horrific to see this and watch just as I left for work. Throughout the day we sought news on the website and from people wandering through the workplace. In London there are more than 2000 Icelanders that live and work there. My heart goes out to all in London!
Here in Iceland everything is just normal, boringly so, although many would probably give everything to have that right now. It has been raining for I don't know any longer how many days, but it is getting a bit tiresome. It has also been quite windy and almost like fall/autumn (Whatever!). But I have had a good week and a good weekend. The plus side of the rain is that my allergies aren't bothering me as much right now. :)

War of the Worlds

Why do Americans alway have to destroy a good thing. The book War of the Worlds is a literary genius considering when it was written. As a blockbuster movie today, it is CRAP. It is pointless! It came across as nothing more substantial than Americans in a marathon competition.

SPOILER!!!

Why do these VERY INTELLIGENT aliens plant something like these tripods MILLIONS of years ago, to come bothering earth now. Why not stone age? And if these VERY INTELLIGENT aliens had been studying us for MILLIONS of years why did they never find out about a thing called micro organism. And what was it with this pointless invasion as well. Spewing blood everywhere, for what purpose, was this suposed to be disgusting.
And funny how Americans try to convey themselves as INTELLIGENT with making this movie with Americans starring in a not so glorious roles. The best view of the Americans in the film was from behind. Run for your lives. Before the movie was halfway through I felt like slapping all Americans. "Yeah, why don't we just stand around and be easy target for them aliens, we are Americans and have to have a front row seat to die! It is our right, our American dream!" And the kid, "Dad, I wanna fight, I wanna fight, I wanna fight." "Yeah, go ahead and get your self killed, what do I care!" Stupid!
Oh, yeah, and if anyone cried over this film, it was probably of boredom or relief that it was finally over when the film ended.
This is nothing but Americans trying to glorify the use of biological weapons ... just, see how a micro organism destroyed those mean bad machines from outer space. This is why it is ok for ust to do the same with those mean bad people that hate us, because we are Americans and stand for justice and truth.
Americans! The reason they hate you is because of crappy films like this. Get over yourself, you are not the most perfect "democracy" in the world, and I use the term lightly.
AAAAAAAAhhh, I wan't my money back!

Weather in Iceland

+15°C / 59°F

This is as warm as it gets in Iceland, so we'll start here.

People in Spain wear winter-coats and gloves.

The Icelanders are out in the sun, getting a tan.

+10°C / 50°F

The French are trying in vain to start their central heating.

The Icelanders plant flowers in their gardens.

+5°C / 41°F

Italian cars won't start.

The Icelanders are cruising in Saab cabriolets.

0°C / 32°F

Distilled water freezes.

The water in Hvita river gets a little thicker.

-5°C / 23°F

People in California almost freeze to death.

The Icelanders have their final barbecue before winter.

-10°C / 14°F

The Brits start the heat in their houses.

The Icelanders start using long sleeves.

-20°C / -4°F

The Aussies flee from Mallorca.

The Icelanders end their Midsummer celebrations. Autumn is here.

-30°C / -22°F

People in Greece die from the cold and disappear from the face of the earth.

The Icelanders start drying their laundry indoors.

-40°C / -40°F

Paris start cracking in the cold.

The Icelanders stand in line at the hotdog stands.

-50°C / -58°F

Polar bears start evacuating the North Pole.

The Icelanders navy postpones their winter survival training awaiting real winter weather.

-60°C / -76°F

Myvatn freezes.

The Icelanders rent a movie and stay indoors.

-70°C / -94°F

Santa moves south.

The Icelanders get frustrated since they can't store their Brennavinn outdoors.

The Icelanders navy goes out on winter survival training.

-183°C / -297.4°F

Microbes in food don't survive.

The Icelandic cows complain that the farmers' hands are cold.

-273°C / -459.4°F

ALL atom-based movement halts.

The Icelanders start saying "it's cold outside today."

-300°C / -508°F

Hell freezes over,

Iceland wins the Eurovision Song Contest.

Impatience is a virtue

At least the way I see it. I have been biting my nails to the quick worrying about my grades and honors and all the stuff that goes with it. I finally cracked today and wrote to my head of department asking if by some chance my letter had gotten lost on the way here from Germany with too little payed for safe delivery before the next millenium. But no, he told me that they hadn't still sent them out, they had meant to but hadn't, and he hoped that they would do it this week. This is very relaxing news, very calming, especially if you know my department you know that this is good news. Because this department is very un-organized and just getting the news that they are thinking about you, is very heartwarming. It will reach me sometimes in the near future. When that is, I have no idea but I do know that it is closer than the next millennium.
So back to crossing my fingers and leaving my nails alone.

I got a B :)

Thanks Sharon, I nearly got a heart attack from your little note. But congratulations with your grade. I completely paled up when I saw that they had posted the results for Celtic. I didn't even dare to check, because I was sure I wouldn't get the results I wanted. But I did it. I got a B. Be me veree happee noo.

Hæ hó jibbí jei og jibbíi jei ....

Það er kominn 17. júní. And June 17th has also gone. It was the 61 year anniversary of Iceland Independence and the weather was baking us. I took some photos but I haven't been able to put them on the web yet, because it has been crazy here. But it was amazing, went with my brother, sister-in-law and niece to buy her a balloon. She was determined to get a Spiderman balloon and because at first we didn't find one she ended up with a Tweety balloon as well. Mom and dad then invited us all out to eat at Ruby Tuesday and after that I hitched a ride with my bro to my friends house where we played couch-potatoes as well as Carcassone and Trivial Pursuit. Couldn't have asked for a better day.
Then it was just normal weekend for me, Saturday not much happened I just bought myself some stuff, but on Sunday I went shopping with my friend Margréti, but I couldn't find anything to buy even though I was shopping for a birthday present for my friend. She on the other hand managed to find something for her sister.
Yesterday, monday 20th of June, was a crazy day at work. I was working for more than 11 hours, and was exhausted after that but nooo, the day wasn't finished yet. Five minutes after I came home I called my friend who had been trying to reach me. And she wanted to know if I was interested in coming with them to the cinema to see Batman begins. A very good action and adventure film, not good if you are looking for something earthshattering. But better than the other four films that have been made about Batman.

Wedding and more

I went to a wedding yesterday of my friends Guðný and Róbert. The wedding photos should be on the website now. It was amazing, soo beautiful. The sorry state is that the battery finished in my camera before the evening was over so I will have to get some photos from others as well. The ceremony was beautiful and I was reunited with friends I hadn't seen in a very long time. We all had lots of fun (I think and hope). I wish the happy couple all the best!
But today was a little different from yesterday. Today would have been my grandfathers 88th birthday but he passed away last year. But mom and dad and I took flowers to his grave as well as his parents and also my grandfathers grandfather in another cemetery. We also too flowers to plant at my great-grandparents and uncles as well. It was a lot of work, planted 40 flowers in total, but it is nice now. We decided to tend my great-great-grandfathers grave as well, since my grandfather used to do it as well, and since we also knew where it was. His name was Magnús Egilsson and he was born in 1805 and was a stonemason. Pretty impressive history in the cemeteries, is my way of thinking.
Today is also my parents 45 year wedding anniversary so we went out for dinner tonight. It was sooo nice, the food is always good at Lauga-ás resturant. (Sharon, I reckomend it!!!)
Oh, and Sharon and my friends in foreign countries. I went to sleep after 2 o'clock last night and the sun was still shining on the horizon. Now it is completely bright 24 hours of the day, sooo nice. I just want to go out and take a long walk, the weather has also been very nice which makes it that much nicer to think that you can go and take a walk at 2 o'clock in the morning without having to dart between lampposts as quickly as possible or skulk around dark alleys.

Work tomorrow

OOO, sounds fun. Well it does, I think, I hope they haven't changed everything from when I was there last time. That's what I am most afraid off. Now I'll be the one standing in the middle of nowhere and picking my nose wondering where I am and everyone around me laughing at the confused idiot. I am really looking forward to seeing my buddies again. Although some are probably all ready on vacation for the summer.
I bought a gift for my friends wedding on Saturday. Looking forward to seeing them all again. Have no idea who will be there, if there are anyone that I know. I sort of feel like I should get a date hired like in the Wedding Date movie, but at the moment I am not that desperate.... well, more like beyond that. Who knows, maybe I can bribe someone cute. But I am still looking forward to it.

For my buddies in Scotland;
The weather here has been quite wet but a blessing because it has been a dry spell here. But around weekend it should clear up and be nice and sunny. Right now my "mocking-bird" is laughing at me outside my window, it is nice to hear him again. It is rather cloudy so it is quite dark tonight although technically speaking it is still light.
My niece has been wonderful, all the time it is just, Elin, Elin, Elin all through the day. It is sooo wonderful to be able to hold her again and cuddle her.

I'm home :)

Vow, this has been an incredible day! I woke up at 7 o'clock and was boarding the plane just after 11 o'clock. I landed in Iceland at half past one (or twelve in Iceland). My whole family was there to greet me and my wee niece came flying into my arms. It was so beautiful. Mom and dad, bro and sis-in-law, it was great. Shortly after we came home and I had unloaded most of my stuff from the suitcases we went to my uncle's place, because it was his birthday on Friday and today it was Sjómannadagurinn and it is quite fitting for him to have a small birthdaybash today because he was born on Sjómannadag. Now I am sitting at my brothers computer at his place because we were invited for dinner. It really has been a great day, but I am really very worn out now, I almost fell asleep in the car over here and it is only about five minute drive from our place. IT'S GOOD TO BE HOME!!!

FINISHEDFINISHEDFINISHEDFINISHEDFINISHED

Just making a statement, I have finished my exams! Such a relief. I think my brain went dead afterwards. Even though we went to Jims bar I did not have anything but Coke but in a short while I was babbling. I think it was just oxygen gathering in my brain after I let out all the Gaelic and nothing was coming in to fill in the gaps. No more studying for a while. When I came home I had my dinner and afterwards while I was tidying my room and going through my junkyard I had one of those Breezers and I don't think that helped, I think for the first time I actually got drunk. Amazingly I didn't need very much yesterday to get drunk, first oxygen and then only 5% and I was seeing everything in very nice rainbow-y colours.
This is the last day in Glasgow and tomorrow morning I leave for home.
Or as the Glaswegian would say:

My heid is deid and Eim goin' heim!

Day after tomorrow

I am coming home the day after tomorrow. The last exam is today, and I have been hammering gaelic into my head while waiting for the washing machines to finish. I will be meeting Claire at the Food Factory at the QM around noon when she arrives in Glasgow and then we will probably go to Jim's Bar after the exam. I don't think I will get out of that. But why would I want to, it is my last exam and I deserve to enjoy myself afterwards after all this.
Maybe I will write again before I go home, hei, wait a minute, of course I will, this has absolutely been my salvatio during the exams. I would have gone nuts or driven my friend Margréti nuts with my continuous e-mails. Poor girl would never be able to finish anything unless she would learn to ignore me. But she would never do that. Noooo.

Three Down - One to Go

Only one more exam and I am free. Can't wait til I get to take my first breath of free air tomorrow. I have to wait until 4:30 do that, darn it. But that is what I am most waiting for right now if we are looking at things in a chronological order - to breath. Then I am most looking forward to going home. Yes, I realise that anyone that has been reading my posts in the last days is fully aware that I am going home, but I won't stop until I am Home so chill.
Todays exam went well (I think) won't really know until I get the results but it is definitely not a fail. Finished in under an hour and had a half hour to spare to think of new things. But alas, my brain was dead and on a more worrying note it hasn't come back alive. I think I am going to have to jumpstart it so I can do some Gaelic work. Brain, listen: "You only have one more day of work and then you can switch off until Sunday, deal!" OO, I felt it move so I better get to work.

So much to do, so little time left

Yess, I am coming home on Sunday. Loooking sooo much for coming home I am not even thinking about the exams that are left. Don't know if that is a good thing (as in I am not getting stressed about them) or if it is a bad thing (as in I think I know everything ... well, I do but I am not sure the teachers agree).
Tonight is the last episode of Desperate Houswifes, very very lucky to see it. I would have gone nuts if I was missing it, way too exciting. Saw a wee sneak peak last night before I went to bed, úúúú.
Finally finished most of my shopping, last minute shopping will take place on Saturday and on the airport on my way HOME.
Two more exams and I am finished for the time being. Then a time of praying and hoping comes, where I wait for the results with dread and sort of "I-don't-really-give-a-"#$%&" attitude towards all this, while secretly gnawing my nails to the quick. EEEEEwweewww. Please be gentle Uni.

Let's contemplate

I have been thinking about telling you guys something for a few days, but I have decided that it is going to be a surprise to everyone, hehehehe. It concerns a very very brillant gift I got from friends. You guys are great! I am getting extremely emotional here, just thinking about it. My family has been threatening exposure when I arrive at the airport on Sunday, but I hope this is an empty threat, hehehehe. I even threatened to go out the back door and my brother asked if I was feeling that important, like a celebrity having to sneak out through the back, hehehehe. It will be sooo much fun to tell everyone at work, and now that I think about it. I really really need a very very big hat for that wedding I am going to. I have to fit the image, I really do. See what I find at the airport if I can smuggle a big hat home, through customs, hehehehe!!!
And don't worry, everyone will eventually find out what this surprise is, but until then ... mwhahahahaha, the last laughter is MINE.

Last Night

I had such good fun last night. It was sort of my birthday party even though my birthday was on the 24th. But because of the exams we waited until the 25th to do something fun. And fun it was. About 8:30 Dee appeared at my door and forbid me to enter the kitchen, I was not even to venture out the room no matter what. Then ten minutes later or so there was a knock on my door and it was Laura it was soo great to see her again. And becuase she had been forbidden to go near the kitchen as well, then we just spent nearly an hour chatting in my room. Then we were called into the kitchen, Emma came as well and Dinesh and Deepak were waiting in the kitchen with a wonderful Indian feast for us. It was heavenly, with all kinds of food and rice and everything you could imagine. They also had Coke for us and I had red wine and Emma had oddly enough Baileys and milk, very odd that. We ate until we were full to bursting and our mouths were blistering but they truly outdid themselves they even had desert. Mango and almond/pistachio icecream and Indian sweet heated in the microwave and it was gorgeous. It was delicious and wonderful.
I even got gifts, from Laura I got a bottle of red wine and and a hair clip and also Aroma therapy spray and lip balm also from the boys I got a Burberrys bag and a cap. Really cool now. It was a beatuiful evening wich ended with me lying in bed watching tv until I fell asleep with a smile on my face.

Thank you all

Thanks to everyone who has been sending me birthday cards and well wishing. I miss you all, look forward to see you in 11 and 1/2 day (when I arrive back home).
Today was my first exam day and although it went all right, you can always write more than you have time to so I was really falling on time but I hope I managed to safe my ass. It is just always oddly surprising how they can ask a question that makes the question look like it is in a foreign language.
After the exam I went to pick up my two essays I had yet to collect. I didn't want to ruin my mood for the exam if the essay marks were bad, but they weren't and I am sooooo happy. In my Celtic Civilisation essay I got a B-, happy with that because poetry analizing is not my thing. And I got an A- in Gaelic Bárdachd( poetry) which makes me think 'hummm, maybe I have a future in this' but no, I don't think so. But this was a great brithday present.
Now I have finished 25% of my exams only 75% left, it will go down another 25% tomorrow. I am just sooo looking forward to this being over.

Eurovision

Doh, I favored Moldova! I really wanted Moldova to win. My friend and I voted for Moldova and when UK cast their voting and Moldova only recieved 2 points from us, we knew that those two votes were ours, hehehee. Although I must say, we were quite alright with Greece winning, although not a really great song, just your typical Eurovision song, but anything that kept Israel down was ok with us. We really don't like Israel right now. It is quite understandable that Spain, UK, Germany and France don't get any voting at all really, because they are iron-clad in the compeition, both they contribute so much of the funding for the contest and also they can't be kicked out so why vote at all for them.
I also quite liked the song from Spain and from Ukraine. Terry Wogan the presenter here in Uk is hilarious, this was the first time my friend watched the Eurovision in the UK and we were rolling around laughing from his comments about the contestants and the countries.
Few comments (loosely remembered);
1. when the Moldova song was on; "this song came through the semi-finals, and if this is a taste of what is to come, then God help us!"
2. when Cyprus gave UK 5 points; "I won't say anything about Cyprus!"
3. when the French song was on; "Princess Leah!"
4. when Romanian was singing; "Does she remind you of somone, maybe a younger version of Ruby Wax!"
5. when someone gave their neighbouring country 12 points; "well, this is a surprise!"
He was completely politically incorrect and we loved him for it. It it had been anyone else than Terry Wogan he would have been taken off the air as soon as the show started, but it was just great. Especially when he was making fun at the countries competing and we actually knew what he was talking about.
Looking forward to the competition next year!

Poetry-crazy

Since I am doing really well learning my 10 Gaelic poets and 13 poems I am going to the store and buy some junk food for tonight's Eurovision contest. I also just need the air. I have discovered since starting to revise for the exams that I need air in more quantity than I usually do. I am not going far today, just keeping it local so I won't be too long out there as well, because if I am taking time off tonight to watch the Eurovision (even though we are not competing) I am going to have to get cracking as soon as I step through the doors again. We will see how that works for me. If there is anyone out there, wish me luck with the revision. I am going crazy here with minimum people contact.

Mwhuhahahah

Iceland did not get through the semi-finals in the Eurovision song contest, surprising, not really. But I still look forward to seeing the final finale on Saturday.
Right now, I am walking on sunshine. I just got a 15min massage and it was heaven. But the poor guy probably injured his hands with trying to work out the sement in my muscles, hehehehe. But I know that I will sleep very well indeed tonight, which is why I am soon going to disappear from the screen and give myself over the the nice place in my dreams.
Tomorrow it will be 2 weeks until I finish my exams and 2 weeks and 2 days until I get home. Looking forward to it, immensely, really, if anyone doubts me, look for me on the 5th when I step out from the airplane and kiss my native homeland. Well, maybe I will just kiss my family, but I will be really really glad when I get home.

A Little Hero

He is only six months old but is a very brave boy. He is my cousin, whom I have never seen but I think of often, because of what has been going through. He was very ill from the day he was born and just yesterday had a twelve hour opperation. He recieved a piece of liver from his mother and they are now both doing all right, but still in ICU. His dad appropriately called yesterday the Long Tuesday, but hopefully now the worst is over. He said in his blog today that they could already see improvements. Keep on getting better little guy and hope you and your mum recover soon so that you can come home that much sooner.

Breik!!!

Ahhh, it was good to get a wee break from studying tonight. Árdís and me went to the cinema, surprise, surprise, and saw The Kingdom of Heaven. Ok, film, rather lengthy, two jokes in the whole two hours and twentyfive minutes, but ok if the price ticket is like under 4 pounds for the both of us.
I studyed from 11:30 to 14:00 when I took just over an hour break for lunch, then from 15:30 to 17:00 and managed to do some pretty good damage to the pile of books I have to read through. Finished one book already and started on the next one. Basically, it was Scotland today, tomorrow it is Ireland and over the weekend it is Wales. Then next week, focus on Gaelic Bárdachd (poetry) and Eachdraich (history).

Speaking exhaustion

I was going to say oral exhaustion, but decided against it since some of you might get the wrong impression of me. I had my Gaelic oral exam yesterday, and at the end I was completely stressed out and was really making a mess of things, trying to express my opinion on the Scottish and English Parlament and taxes in Iceland in Gaelic. I came out from the room, shaking, and could hardly even manage to speak English. So while I waited for my friend Claire I tried to calm down. When she came out I saw where we were headed. We ended up in Jim's Bar trying to 'sober up' after this horrifying experience. Thankfully, this is probably the last time I HAVE to speak in Gaelic, but you never know if I am stuipd enough to go out seeking some outlet of my Gaelic.
Claire is now on a plane heading for Las Vegas, taking a week off, feck all! She is not going to do anything that makes sense for a week and then come back and study for the exams that are in two weeks time. I must say, I would never be able to do that. I would be freaking out from guilt of not being at home studying for the exams. Enjoy the holiday, Claire!!! Bring back some juicy stories for me, am going to need it after all the studying.

In the deep end ... and drowning

I am preparing for my oral exam in Gaelic on Tuesday, but damn, what have I gotten myself into. I said I was going to talk about the Icelandic Parlament, and right now I am like, ... aaaa, what is there to say about it.
Tha Parlamaid na Innis Tíle? Doh! Chan eil mi fios agam. I only have a few lines, about 2 and a half minute long, so I have to find something more to say about it. But what? Chan eil Parlmaid na Innis Tíle mar am Pharlamaid na Sasainn no Alba. Gaaa, that doesn't help with points and on top of that the Parlament back home is different from the Parlament here so many of the words and what-nots they have here we don't. This is proving to be challenging. Maybe something like this: Bha Parlamaid na h-Innis Tíle stéidhichte ann an 930. Bha Parlamaid suidhichte air Thingvellir. O chionn, bha am Parlamaid choinnich gach bliadhna gus an ochdamh linn deug. An sin, choinnich am Parlamaid airson uile ráithe do naoi míos dhen bliadhna. ‘S e an seann Pharlamaid ann an saoghal, no co-dhiú, ann an Eorpa. Ann an 1380 Innis Tíle rach a-steach am Crún an Damnhairg. Ann an 1874 fhuair Innis Tíle ar bonn-stéidh agus sinn fhéin-riaghladh againn. Thug le Innis Tíle neo-eismeileachd ann an 1944 bhon Danmhairg. Although this is only a small part, but I could start with this. The years in themselves will probably add a whole minute to the speech anyway. 1874 – ochd ceud deugh trí fichead ‘s a ceither dheug. Try say that very fast over and over again. [Ohk keiud djíug trí fíched sa keiher jíug] bókstaflega.

The answer is: 42

Yess, nerds know this. Or at least I know it and my friends and we watch Start Trek and boast about it, so I think that makes us a bit nerdy. But we are also quite proud of our nerdiness. But that is not why I wanted to nerd this down. I wanted to tell everyone that I went to see The Hichhikers Guide to the Galaxy tonight. And it is great, funny, hilarious, with a very strange song that catches on quite easily (according to a friend of mine, hehehehe, no name mentioned) and a great story about a whale contemplating existence. It has everything, a beginning, a middle and an end and I was actually quite sad when it ended because I would have liked to see more. There were also a lot more nerds there than we, because I heard laughter echoing through the theatre. AAAAAAAAAAaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, nice memories.

Sumardagurinn fyrsti - ójá

Vow, it is soooooo warm today. The sun is shining and the thermometor I have shows all between 18°c and up to 24°c. And I am roasting. I am sitting now in my room, the window full out and at the the sun isn't shining but it gives little comfort. But I like it anyway. This is how it should be on the first day of summer. I am even wearing my summer gift from mom.
I am trying to gear myself up to starting on my essay, I am getting there but as you can see I am waisting a few minutes here writing about nonsensical stuff.

I finally got it

I finally got my essay from Celtic back. I said to my mom on Friday that it was better to get the bad news after the weekend so it wouldn't spoil it but damn I didn't expect this.
I got a B+ .... a B+ vow, I am sooooo happy. I saw my grade 17/20 and I sooo couldn't believe it, I actually had to ask him what that meant in letters (A, B, C) I was so astounded. If I didn't have ears I would have been really strange to look at today because my smile would have reached a circle.
I really I really could kiss my teacher now (but really for a completely different reason.... he's just so damned cute). Smoooch!

Busy shopping

Didn't write anything over the weekend because I was too busy shopping. That's sooo me. Although I didn't buy much on Saturday I let the air out of my purse yesterday. I went on an hour and a half walk through the garden and down Great Western Road on a shopping spree. I bought three skirts, sooo pleased and they are sooooo nice. Then I stopped at an Indian Sweet shop, and yes, I bought a selection of sweets that I have no way of pronouncing let alone did I even know what I was eating. But it tasted delicious. Especially the orage-yellow swirls (Hrabba knows what I am talking about). I still have some left, but it is disappearing fast. I went to Music Mania which has music from Bollywood movies and I bought the cd from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (Something is happening) and it is beautiful.
Then just for the fun of it, I stepped into a furniture store that has furniture for children and oooooooo, it is just beautiful, I wish I was a little spoiled brat here, that I could get some of the things they have. www.somethingspecial.info Just take a look and drool.
And as someone might have noticed on my msn messenger yesterday there are now less the seven weeks until I come home. Yeah, which means it is getting closer to the exams. Eaks.
Good luck everybody and me too.

Fire alarm andskoti

Jamm, It happened! It had to happen, and happen soon. There has been maybe one since Christmas. And so everyone OUT. I was having such a nice evening watching a Bollywood film and then this. And it is cold outside, even though it is like 5°c. Thank God, it's Saturday tomorrow and I can sleep until noon for all I care. But damn, I hate those noisy fire alarms and all because some girl took a shower or was blow drying her hair or whatever. The funny bit was she was a bit mortified over having the fire men standing in her room with her "unmentionables" spread about. OOOOh, I am soooo bad. Híhíhíhí.

Essays aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

Ok, this was just one funny day for essays. Let the story begin.
Yesterday Mr. Byrn came into the seminar room to let a few of us know that we would be getting our essays returned today instead of yesterday like we had signed up for. Cool, no problem there ... I thought. I came in earlier today to pick up some books for my next essay and then went to meet my teacher. I came in and he searched high and low but could not find it. I was afraid it had been so bad that I had just thrown it out with the garbage. But no, everything was just cluttered and he wasn't all there so he asked me to come again on Monday and then he would definitely have it ready. So three times a charm or ALLT ER ÞEGAR ÞRENNT ER shall we hope. And then in Gaelic we got the essay topic for the second essay we have to do in that course as well. So now I am just up to my neck in essays and I am really drowning and have had enough. Give me some good news tomorrow, please and no more essays.

I'm back ...

In Glasgow! I am soooo tired right now, that I am barely making any sense of what I am doing. Árdís and I are planning to get some food soon and then try to see how we manage with watching the 3 missing episodes of Desperate Houswives, that we missed when we were home. I have been up since 4 o´clock this morning, and I haven't been able to sleep a wink since coming here.
I tried to write once during easter break, but something wasn't working right so I just skipped fiddling any more with the blog. Maybe it will come up now, that I have written this, unless this goes kablooey too. Anyways, I'll write something meaningful later, right now I just had so say "hi" again.
And on the brighter side of life: 8 weeks until I come home for summer!!!

I'm babysitting!

Vow, there has been so much to do since coming home, I haven't been able to write anything. I have hardly at all been on the web since coming home. Been too darn busy. But now that I am babysitting I do have time, which might seem weird to some. But the thing is the baby is asleep. Yup, my wee niece is fast asleep here beside me in the sofa. She's sooo cute. Mom and dad got to go to the movies tonight so I was drafted into the role of babysitter.
It is always getting shorter and shorter until I have to go back to Glasgow and then I only have two months until I can get home again. But I have been having the most wonderful time here at home with family and friends and very often I wish I could combine the best of Scotland with the best of Iceland.

What has gotten into me

I woke up before seven this morning. I had put the alarm on for eight so that I could go do my laundry but since I woke up at seven I just took my washing down then instead. So now I am finished and can relax until I go to Uni later.
But I still don't know what has gotten into me. I think it is excitement of going home in just 2 days. Yup, two days. The day after tomorrow.
I am going shopping today for the last time (I say) before I go home.
Desperate Housewifes are on tonight and then tomorrow Árdís will go home. Lucky she, going tomorrow but I have to wait for the Day after Tomorrow. But I am just soooo excited, looking forward to seeing all my friends and family. It is going to be sooo nice.

2 Days until I am Home!!!

Shopping mad

This is sooo me. I am injured, can hardly walk, but just give me some painkillers and I am off shopping. The funny thing was that I went to sleep last night at one o'clock am, not bad, then the next thing I know it is twelve noon. I got a shock, I imediately checked my phone because Árdís and I had planned to go shopping today, which in the end we did. Got into the city center at one and had some lunch. Then we hit the stores and shopped till we dropped, or at least I. I could hardly walk when I came back to my room, and the clock showed that it was nearly six o'clock.
My foot is now really swollen and hurting but I am hoping that a good nights rest will get the swelling down for tomorrows school.

Right now:

5 Days until I am Home!!!

In about half an hour:

4 Days until I am Home!!!

I had a wee accident - long story

Yup, you know knowledge is best gained through experience. I took a wee misstep and my ankle went all kablooey and pain shot through to my knee as well. All in my famous left leg. I happened just after 2 o'clock and I got home around 2:30, because I first had to take care of Accommodation matters. Then I had to walk all the way down to Byres road and it hurt like hell because it is a very steep way down. Took a taxi home (which had this in the window; Cab drivers: proof that practice doesn't make perfect!, which I kind of find funny. I am easily amused). Took Ibuprofen 400 mg and felt fine, so I went to meet my friend Laura, had nice time had coke and carrot cake and then went back home. After that everything went from bad to worse.
Took more painkillers, at seven o'clock. Ordered pizza for me and Dee although I didn't have much appetite. Came back in and tried to put cold on my ankle didn't work, put some inflamatory reduction cream ... didn't work, took 2 tablets of 500 mg Panadol and at 10 o'clock it hadn't started to work. Mom phoned and I told her what had happened, and she basically told me to get my ass to an E.R. to get THE ANKLE checked out (not my ass).
I asked Dee what I should do and he was certain I should have it checked out and offered to phone for a cab. I contacted Árdísi and asked if she was busy and if she wanted to accompany me, Dee couldn't because he was on duty. So we went to the Accident and Emergency thingy at Western Infirmary and that is a new adventure.

We entered the A n' E and was registered there and then told to just sit and wait for my name to be called. Árdís wanted to be sure I would take her in with me when I was called, and I definitely wasn't going to leave her out there alone. There were two police officers at the A n' E and of course it wouldn't be an E.R. if there wasn't a drunk person there as well.
It really felt like stepping into a film studio, I really felt like Mr. Bean coming into a British Hospital, almost like cut from a medical scene some thirty of fourty years before. And not as clean as you would like a hospital to be I must say.
But it is a large city so you must make allowances, there are a lot of things that can go wrong in a city this size.
Well, after waiting for an hour I got to meet a doctor. He stuck his nose out a double door and called three names. So off we went, we were shown to a room where I was asked to sit down, the other two were moved in as well. I was next to the door and then they closed the drapes. The doctor poked my ankle a bit and because I didn't hurt in the places he wanted me to hurt in I had only sprained my ankle and they didn't need to take any x-rays. The doctor basically told me to just keep on with the painkillers and icepacks and also gave me a tubesock and to keep my foot elevated. And that I could then just go. I didn't even need to pay for this, for any of it. Everything free. Cool!!!

We then took a cab home and when we came here we were both so wound up that we just sat down before the television and watched Alien vs. Predator. Ok, movie but rather stupid at times. No more so than any other alien movie though so not too bad.

Well am going to bed now, to keep my foot elevated and no shopping tomorrow. I'll see about Sunday though. If everything else fails I'll just get some crutches, hehehehe.

Right now:

6 Days until I am Home!!!

Rotten exam table

Bugger all, I got my exam table yesterday and it is not pretty. I will have to take four exams, which means two in Gaelic, ooo je, I can just hear people cheering "who's stupid enough to study Gaelic anyway". My first exam I get as a birthday preasant, on the 24th of May I get Celtic Civilisation and right the day after my first Gaelic examn. Then, not until the 2nd of June do I have my History Medieval Level 2 exam and the day after that my second Gaelic exam. So I will not be able to come home until the 5th of June, just hoping that I can get a flight home then.
Gaaaaaaaa, sometimes I just wish to kick someone. Árdís is lucky she finishes before the end of May, she always does this, last year as well. And then I will be going home to work. But I am actually looking forward to that. I know... "what's got into her now", "well, just momentary insanity and want I also want a change of scenery".

8 Days until I am Home!!!

Nothing

I have nothing to say really. I am very boring now. I want to say something funny, but the only thing that I can think of is not funny at all.

Two blondes walked into a building. ...

You would have thought at least one of them would have noticed!

You see! Nothing funny at all.
But today is my friend Lauras birthday and I am still trying to get in touch with her and find a time to meet up with her. She is busy, I am busy, everyone is busy right now. Everyone is trying to write their essays before going home for Easter and get ahead in their studies so no break for those that just want to have fun with their friends.
I am now going to laze away the evening before I go to bed to wake up for another wonderful day in school.

Can't wait until tomorrows conversation class in Gaelic, we are going to be talking Computers ... in Gaelic naturally, so basicall it's going to be Coimputaireachd everywere. Which reminds me I have to cur mo pháiper tron an cló-bhualadair so that I can hand it in tomorrow.

11 Days until I am Home!!!

Þorrablót

Went to a Þorrablót yesterday and managed to come back home alive. It was quite fun and the food was good (although some would not agree) and even I agree with some of it. The problem for me was that they served traditional súrmat not just þorramat so the sviðasulta was sour and I really didn't like that. But the rófustappa and sviðakjammar were very good as well as the flatkökur and hangikjöt. I didn't have much to drink of the spirit variety. I only had one glass of red wine, two of Bacardi breezer Orange and two shot glasses of Brennivín and then I just stuck with the Coke so I am good. I took a few pictures but not very many, I'll have to see how they turned out before I put them on the web. There was also traditional singing and fun stuff and even dancing and it was really very fun. But alas then the evening had to come to an end for us and me and Árdís went home in the last train leaving for Glasgow. Arrived in Glasgow about twenty minutes past twelve and then we had to wait for nearly an hour for a taxi, because there were so many waiting and few taxis.

I might head into town to day, just because I can't be bothered to do anything really productive today and I need some lunch and I don't have anything edible in the house.

19 Days Until I come Home!!!

Weathered out

It snowed today in Glasgow, started at least around one o'clock today and went on through the day. When I look out the window now, the cars have a white sheen covering them. This is quite amusing since I just saw news from home where they said a heat record for February had been broken at Kirkjubæjarklaustri. The previous record (and I don't know since when) was 9.9°c and today it was 13.5°c. And here I was shivering my ass off in barely 2°c. Brrrrrrr.
And since I am still sick I will only be going in for the most pressing matters tomorro. Three lectures in stead of five, I just know that I won't be able to stand being in Uni tomorrow for so long without a break.

I am still sick, but I hope I will be getting better soon. I haven't had much of a fever, but who knows what will come up next. I just hope I won't have to battle bronchitis right now, when I really have to focus on my schoolwork. Hope for the best.

25 DAYS UNTIL I AM HOME!!!

Ballet, what can I say

Well, the end was the best part. As in, "Yeesssss, it's finally over!" Ok, I must come completely clear on this, I don't regret going ... but I would regret going again. Ballet is not for me. The costumes and the music was great, the ballet was probably great as well, but I must say ... I have never seen a more GAY Prince Charming. And there was definitely some padding going on in strange places, that almost bordered on the obscene. The tights were definitely that and were riding well up the backside of this representation of the man of every woman's 'NIGHTMARE'! But other than that it was fun. Afterwards we went to J.D. Wetherspoons and had some late dinner and it was just about the best chicken salad I have ever had. Recomend that place. And now I am finally home in my soon to be warm room and I can go being sick again. I wasn't that bad today, and just knocked down some painkillers before I went out tonight so it wasn't so bad as all that. I just heard everything in mono, no stero sound getting through to me tonight. Hope I will be getting over this flu-thingy soon.

News from afar

Yep, I'm not really here at the moment, or at least my mind is playing tricks on me. I have a bit of a fever so I am not completely responsible for what is written here.
I finally got news from my friend in India, she has been gone a month and hasn't contacted anyone until now. But she is having fun and getting used to travel in the Indian traffic. I kind of envy her, because I really want to go to India one day. But right now I am focusing on working on some essays. I have been talking about working on my essays for ages but now I have actually started. Jeiii, good for me.
Hopefully I will be ok tomorrow, since I am going to the Ballet with Árdísi. Should be fun, nothing better than to see some bouncing boys hopping about in very tight tights to cheer you up when you are feeling poorly. So if anyone hears someone whistling in the audience - it might very well be me.

Cothromach deuchainn, gabh mo leisgeul

Bha fuar an-diugh agus bha mi sgíth ach cha robh mi tinn. Choisich mi dhan oilthigh a-máireach ach dhá cuspair, Gáidhligh agus Eachdraidh Meadhan-aoiseil. 'S toil leam Gáidhligh agus eachdraidh cuideachd síobhaltas nan Ceilteach.
Bhi mi dárna bliadhna air an Oilthigh Glaschu agus nuair tha mi sgíth. Bhi mi air chadal. Chí mi thu a-máireach a-rithist.

Desperate housewives

OOOh, a lot is going on in Desperate housewives this week. Árdís and I were just watching the latest and it left such a cliffhanger that we are dying for the next episode to come. How are we supposed to wait a week, but also we refuse to read up on the series. No way, we are going to prevail until the end.
The good news is that our friends and family are going to get the pleasure of being able to watch the Desperate housewives back home soon. Ríkissjónvarpið has anounced that they will air the series at their channel. The only uncertainty in this good news is that I have no idea when that will be. Kind of thinking that it might be around Easter.
Until then and until next week, we will be waiting with bated breath for the next installment into the mystery of Visteria Lane. Thankfully, Joey will help us wait until then. His series start this Sunday, víhí.

I'm coming home but not quite yet

I have just booked my flight home for Easter. I will arrive in Keflavik somwhere after noon on 18th of March and have wonderful 3 weeks and 2 days home until I have to return back to Glasgow.

Talaði við mömmu í gær og af því að það var Bolludagur þá hafði hún sögu að segja. Katrín og Svala komu í heimsókn og það var varla að Katrín var komin inn úr dyrunum þá var hún komin inn í eldhús og náði sér í eina bollu og beit í hana áður en hún skellti henni á borðið. Mátti ekki vera að því að bíða eftir rjóma eða disk eða neinu. Hún spurði líka hvar ég væri og mamma svaraði að ég væri í skólanum í Glasgow. Og svo spurði mamma hana hvort að þær ættu nú að baka bollur handa mér þegar ég kæmi heim. Katrín var nú öll á því, en hún ætlaði nú að gera meira en bara það. Hún ætlaði sko að ná í mig og meira að segja ná í mig í Glasgow. Því það væru nú þegar bollur hérna og það vantaði bara mig. Hún er svoddan yndisleg kelling, dýrka hana alveg út af lífinu.

On þí oðer hand, bekos æ haf tú, æ haf desæded tú kríeit a njú langvits and kol it englíska, vits is ínglis vritten in æslandik, há dú jú læk it. Meibí æ vill vræt mor englísku in þe koming deis. Sí jú leiter and teik it ísí.

The importance of being Ernest

and I am in earnest when I say that I enjoyed myself tonight. Árdís dragged me willingly to the Gilmorehill Theatre where some students from University of Glasgow were performing the last show of The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde. It was fabulous and I must say that the actor who played Algie ... really captured my heart with his rougish ways. Truly talented aspiring actors.
Next we will be going to see the Tempest. I know that it is never nice to go alone to these sort of things and since Árdís wants to go I want to go as well. I think I have just put my finger on my philosophy about theater. I don't like going to theaters but when am an at a theater I like it.
On another subject, it is just short of six weeks until I come home for Easter, lots to do until then. Have to work on my presentation for tuesday, tomorrow. Thankfully much is already finished.

Lunch at mom's ... just not mine

I met my friend, Lewis, today for lunch. We went to Whistler's Mother Café, and those who have seen the Mr. Bean; The Movie know why I find that funny. And those that know about the time I saw the movie with my mom and my brother, also know why I actually find this hilarious.
But it was a very nice place, with a very nice selection of paninis and ciabattas, nachos and sandwiches. Afterwards I went into the citycenter just to pass some time before going back home.
And to night is the fith episode of Desperate housewifes so me and Árdís are going to plant ourselfs in front of the television and watch it. We ordered pizza and gulped that down over some Reality TV (hardly) and are now just waiting for the clock to strike ten.

A new family member

My cousin María Rós just had a tiny baby girl. Although her grandmother says she looks like a tiny sumo wrestler. I don't agree, she looks quite tiny. With very black hair.
Congratulation Baldur og Ásthildur with your granddaughter and congratulations María and Haraldur with your new baby girl.
Welcome to the world little cousin.

Look forward to seeing you when I come home.

Burns Night and a wee dram

Gie 's a wee haggis, lad?

In celebration of the birthday of Robert Burns, Scotlands national bard, we went to a Burns night on the 25th. The History Society of the University of Glasgow was hosting the party at the aptly named bar on Woodlands Road, Uisge Beatha (Gaelic = whiskey). There weren't very many that came but it was nice and fun. We got our haggis, neeps and tatties (which is basically: slátur, rófur og kartöflur). Everything was quite nice and it tasted very differently from the Icelandic haggis / slátur, much more spicy. But I do know where you can get a very Icelandic haggis in Glasgow. But of course I couldn't end the night without having a wee dram of whiskey. And the Uisge Beatha's speciality is naturally whiskey. This is a place I definitely need to bring my friend Gumma to sometime when he comes next to Glasgow. On the other hand I shouldn't, as he would probably take up permanent residence there. We like our whiskeys you see. But my favorite is Glengonye 10 years old, that's a drink for me. Very smooth.

It really happened ... again

Oooh, it's still snowing now, and now it shows. I even took pictures. I would never have beliefed it otherwise. See not even I belief that it is snowing. Ooooh, this sooo reminds me of home. I like it. But I don't think I should be voicing my opinions here, might make me a social outcast.
Anyway, check the photos if you still don't belief me.

It really happened ... honest

It snowed in Glasgow, I witnessed it. It was mostly sleet at the beginning but then you got to see these really huge snowflakes. That only means snow. But unfortunately since everything was wet from the previous rain we had been having, none of the snowflakes would cooperate with making a white pile of snow on the streets.
The taxi driver I had taken home from the store told me he was expecting snow to begin falling any minute, but I didn't beliefe him. But as soon as I came up the stairs and entered the kitchen I saw the snow from the window. Brrrrr, now I just want to crawl under my covers and come back out in the summer.

Ljóska dagsins huh...

My adventure of the day!

You will never beliefe what happened to me just now. I got locked outside my flat. My friend Árdís came by to borrow some stuff from me that she needed for her essay and because the doorbell isn't working I had to run downstairs to let her in. And we stayed downstairs chatting for a wee bit, because she was going out again, to do a few errands. So when she left, and I wanted to go back into my warm room, the door to the flat was closed and locked. Nooooooo!
I knew that Dee had gone off to work, because he said goodbye to me as he walked out the door this afternoon. Emily and Ruth I had no idea where they were so my only hope left was Lisa, but no matter how I knocked on the door no one answered. I knew she hadn't gone out while I was downstairs so I tried flat D if there was anyone of them there. There wasn't but this really helpful girl phoned her up and she was still ensconed in her room with her cousin (and from the noises I hear coming from her room are playing computer games) anyway, she finally opened the door and let me in. She was really sorry she had locked me out, but I was just thankful I got inside again. Now I can continue not studying for my final exam and everything is as it should be again.

nr. 2 down

Second exam was this morning and went ok. Won't go farther than that because the first question was very unfair and I think everyone of us felt that way. Most of the people I know, answered it last trying to think of something to write. Baaaaad exam! What was the exam about; Celtic Civilisation or basically Celtic History. And what is the Celtic history you might ask, well it goes something like this. Wales was screwed, Ireland was screwed over and Scotland was already fucked up. Unfortunately you can't give such short direct answeres during an exam so I had to exercise my penmanship a bit in the exam.
Now, I have six whole days before my next and last exam of this term, so I took the day off and went to do some shopping, which turned out to be more of a window shopping though. Came home eventually and had the nices shower I have had in a long while, not that I haven't taken a shower for a long time but this one was just ssooooooo nice.

One down, one to go

The Gaelic exam was this morning, and it went rather well ... I think so anyway. But I also promised myself that I wouldn't think to much about it since it only counts for about 10% of my final score this year, but I still hope it was ok. I will need to get like a transcript of my courses for LÍN although so that's mainly why I am hoping I at least got a C. Right now I should be going over my Celtic notes, and I promise I will in a few moments, but I just needed a bit of a break. Me and Clare are trying to figure out what exactly it is that we need to know, but it turns out to be a lot more than we want to know so I think we will pray this one out as well.
Well, all will come clear tomorrow and when I finish it, I am going to allow myself to go shopping and go to a cinema, pending on if there is anything in cinema that I want to see.

soon to be GONE WITH THE WIND

Yup, they are predicting a very severe weather here in Scotland, worse than the one that hit the British Isles on Friday, thank God on Monday it was actually possible to go outside without imitating Mary Poppins. The weather hasn't started quite yet, it's mainly bluster right now, but you can still see what is to come if this continues. I am seeing the trees in the yard in front of my window do a good immitation of a break-dance. It has also started to rain, which really isn't that much of a news since we are here in Scotland but I thought I should mention it to give full image to the picture.
Right now I am just being bored at home trying to study for my Gaelic exam on Thursday and praying that I will at least get a C (really praying, like for real). Also have a bit of a stomach upset and crazy head, running to the bathroom, well taking two steps actually it's not that far to go, and then to the bed to try to get my head leveled out and then to the chair to get my spine straight and try to put as much Gaelic vocabulary into my head and back to the bathroom.
So I guess you know where I am going after this.
Write to you later, got to run ...

Crazy woman in Scotland

Brain donors apply now! I swear I feel like my brain has erected a buffer zone so that no knowledge can be downloaded into it. Not even for the next few days, just for the exams and then it can go away forever and leave me alone. Nope, nada chance. It's like it refuses to go over stuff that I already have gone over and there is this really small devilish voice telling me, "you know all this, you know all this" yeah, right who is it kidding? Obviuosly, my brain! It doesn't want to understand that it isn't just the matter of knowing things, but understanding them as well. I know what the story is about, but I don't know that much about the content, I can't tell you what every word in it means (because it is in Gaelic, tuig thu?).

I NEED A BRAIN (that is functioning brain).

(Until the 20th I am not going to be responsible for things printed here.)

Crazy weather in Scotland

Ooof, it is horrible to look out the window and cold as well, especially when the wind blows through my almost fully closed window. Brrrrrr. I miss the -7°c back home, at least it was warm there. It took me about ten hours to get warm yesterday, because the boiler in our flat wasn't working. Fun! But I guess I have to go outside to day, no matter the weather. I have to buy a lot of stuff, stuff like FOOD, need that to survive and not just the cold but the exams as well. Yup, have to continue getting ready for my exams. I so can't wait until the 20th of Jan. when I finish and have whole four days before the school starts again.

Phenomenon ... duduruduru phenomenon

I heard this at the airport at home on my way here. There was this American woman who met someone she knew, and she was telling him all about how she loved Iceland and yadayadayada. She dragged him along with her into a Icelandica shop where she showed him a small dall of Skyr and she was decribing it is such details that I have never heard anything like it, and she finished her praising and admirational speech about Skyr with the words, "it's just phenomenon". I kinda have to agree with her on that, Skyr is great and I already miss it. I want Skyr. I wish Baugur and these guys would negotiate with the British government of being allowed to import Skyr and Súrmjólk and Icelandic water and lamb into Scotland (at least). And at least to the Iceland shop on Byres Road in Glasgow, I would like that very much.

So much has happened

I don't know where to start.
I came home on the 17th and as soon as I walked in the door I was busy, cleaning, cooking, washing. But it was sooooo goood to be home. All the preparation before Christmas was really good. And Aðfangadagur was wonderful. My brother and I helped with the cooking with moms instructions of course and it went all really well. Even though my brother got the Möndlugjöf in the end. I got heaps of presants even though I hadn't been expecting it and every one of them was wonderful. But I must say that we all felt that there was one person missing this Christmas. I felt I really really missed my grandfather who passed away just before easter, I still do.
My grandmother was with us this Christmasday though and Júlíus, Svala and Katrín Lilja were there as well and also on Christmas day and the Second day of Christmas.
On Wednesday I went with my brother and sister-in-law to a Christmas ball for my niece, and she absolutely refused to dance around the Christmas tree, even though just recently she was dragging her grandfather around the Christmas tree back home. But when the Santa Clauses came she was in such awe of them. One even patted her head and she found that to be quite the highlight of the year.
New Years Eve, was great, I shopped for food and found beautiful pork steak with wonderful crackling and we enjoyed ourselves immensely, even though my brother and family were at home that night, because Katrin was ill. But the fireworks were wonderful and I had soo much fun and I didn't even go to bed until half past four in the morning.
But the highlight of my year, happened in the new year. On January 1st, my friends held a sort of Indian night, where we all dressed up in Asian clothing, my two friends wore their sarees and I wore my salwar-kameese and even my friends boyfriend borrowed my turban and the whole evening he looked like a sultan with his harem. It was wonderful, it was soooo successful and great. I have pictures!
Then I tried to study, didn't go tooo well, could have used a few more hours in the day I must say. Also another group of friends invited me for a dinner party, and wow did they make delicious dinner. Ummmm, I still remember how great it tasted. And afterwards we played Scotland Yard, an old board game from when we were little, and I was mr. x the second time, and I must say it really gets on your nerves being hunted like that. OOOOOh, I was shaking all over when it finished, but I eluded them, so I won, hehehehehe.
But all good things come to an end, I am afraid, baaaaaahaaaaaaaaa. So here I am now sitting, in my room in Glasgow, almost sick, but refusing to give in to mr. bug and really wanting to go back home. But only two months and I am back home for Easter.
Write soon again, so much to tell.

12 Hours and I am home

Sí ja þen

Time is relative after all

Oh boy, I just got a shock of a lifetime this morning. I came up from doing my laundry, and was turning my computer on when I looked at my phone. It had flashed a reminder up and I took a closer look it said: Home today 17/12/2004. Yup this sums it up, all of a sudden the time flew, it was Friday the 17th of December not the 16th. So I scrambled my brain to figure out if I really had lost a day, I mean something like this really freaks you out. I couldn't calm down until I saw the date on mbl.is for todays paper. And now I am just, kind of working on getting over my untimely excitement of going home, hehehehe.
I will finish packing today, hope to get everything in the suitcases and finish tidying my room as well, it's a pigsty at the moment.
See you in 26 hours Iceland and family. Looking forward to Christmas and spending time with you.

Christmas dinner at Lauras

Oh, it was just lovely, we completely stuffed ourselves. We had a huge halaal chicken ... since we had been expecting Hamza ... and we saw no reason to have a turkey and a chicken (the chicken being for Hamza) so we just had the chicken, and oh boy, it was a chicken dressed as a turkey it was sooooo huge. But the real chicken of the party was Hamza, the wee bastard didn't show up, and Lewis almost ended up with no secret Santa, luckily Dee didn't buy for his Secret Santa (Hamza) the inflatable Pamela Anderson Doll that he intended but a Diesel fragrance, much better so Lewis did indeed get a very nice present. So everything worked out well in the end. But it was lovely, we ate and ate and talked and ate some more and had a wonderful time fiddling with Dee's tricky putty. Especially Laura who bought it for him as a Secret Santa gift.
But all good things come to an end and we are back home in our little flat in our rooms, going to bed soon, and then in just two days I'm home.
Yes, I know I can't write a passage here unless I mention that I am going home. But hey, as long as I like going home I should be proud to say I am going home ... in just TWO days.
And finally, I handed in my last essay in Celtic Civ today and can take it easy for the next couple of days before I start packing, I have to make sure I have bought all the Christmas presents I need.
Also finally, I went with Claire and Joanne to Jim's Bar today before Celtic and gave Claire her birthday present (Her birthday was on Friday though) and she told us all about her trip to Milan over the weekend and we had a really good fun until reality knocked again and one more class to go to before going home.

B is for Brilliant and that is for ME

Yup, I got a B+ for my history essay. Now I must say, that made my day. My tutor didn't have anything but good to say about it, the professor wasn't really at the same level but who cares. Having someone sing your praise for ten minutes is enough to make you smile through the rest of the day or until the next essay grade.
Now it's only four days until I go home and I can't wait. My last essay is ready and I can hand it in tomorrow and then I am free, well mostly, I still have conversation class in Gaelic, could do without that but what's one more class.
Tomorrow is Christmas dinner at Lauras, I will take a lot of photos and put on the web to let everyone know that I DO have friends and that we can actually have a good time as well. And for you ladies especially, pictures of Hamza will be promised.

Just a week now

I'm going home in a week. I am soooooo looking forward to it. Seeing my mom and dad and grandma for the first time in three months. Having heaps of work waiting for me as well. Oh, it's going to be great. My mom had surgery just a few weeks before I came to Scotland in September and I was always really worried about leaving her, but everything was going well until a few weeks ago, when she had a problem which landed her straight back in hospital and another surgery and she just got home so there are a lot of things that need to be done when I come home. But I don't care, I'm just glad I'm going home.
I finished my last essay for Christmas today and then promptly went out shopping for the remaining Christmas preasants. I still have to find something nice for mom, I have a couple of nice things but I need something nicER. I know, I am very difficult, but mom is nothing compared to me. But I like shopping, who can blame me.
I am so happy!

a bit more

I came home to day and found a package waiting for me, I was soooo happy to get a package. It is always fun to get a package. It was from my friend Kristín, who works with me at the Iceland Post office and she even sent me Pipp. Boy, did she know what I needed. It was soooo cold today and I was at school for seven hours freezing my ass off. There was no place where there was even a hint of heat. No wonder there are so many that perish here in Britain from the cold, I almost did and I am an Icelander and shouldn't be complaining about the cold. Or at least that is what people are telling me but they don't understand it never gets this cold in Iceland as we know how to heat our home, and do it when we are actually at home. They don't do that here, they have it timed so that the heat is on for the first few minutes in the morning when I wake up and go OUT into the cold and then when I come home at five most of the heat is gone and nowhere to be seen again. Thank God I have a heater otherwise I would be flying horizontally home this Christmas. Brrrrrr!

Hrabba came and went

Oh, it was soooo nice to see my friend again. She stayed for four whole days and then she had to go home and leave me all alone here again. But it will be fine, tomorrow it will only be two weeks until I go home and see everyone I missed. I haven't written anything since she left, I guess she really wore me out shopping, hehehe. But despair not, I will be going into town most likely tomorrow to do my Christmas shopping and then you will see an Icelander who knows to shop in Glasgow. It was great fun when she was here, and we had an adventure every day she was here.
Beginning on the day she arrived. I had been invited to an embassy reception in Edinburgh along with a "guest" so since she was coming that day I asked her and she said why not, so we went. Árdís came with us as well, which made the journey much more fun as well. We planned to take the five o'clock train to Edinburgh as the reception was to start at 6 o´clock. We got delayed on our way to the trainstation as there was a huge fire at a nightclub and so we had to take the quarter past train instead and she was running late. Good start at a very interesting evening. When we came to Edinburgh we got a taxi after waiting for a few minutes in the freezing cold. I tried to explain that we needed to get to Fettes college, but was pronouncing it with a decidedly french accent as I didn't want to say we were going to Fetish college which it sounds like when you say it. And the guy took us up some very spooky dark lane up to some housemasters home of all boys school. I don't know what he thought we were, but we were so in the wrong place, but we didn't realize that until he had gone. So we were stuck somewhere in the deepest, darkest Edinburgh with no idea of how to get where we wanted to go. We were on our way to the main road again going to try to find a another cab when a taxi drove up with this very nice looking fellow all spruced up in his finest tailored suit. I walked over to him to ask him if he was also going where we were and telling him this was probably not where we wanted to be. So the cabdriver found out at the end where we were supposed to go, which was almost at the other end of Edinburgh (a bit of exaggeration) but the fancy guy took us with him in the taxi to the college where we were supposed to be. And we met the Ambassador and his friend (who my friend remarked lookes like a miniature Donald Trump).
We had white wine and red wine and took a turn around the hall and the chappel. Where we met this very very British couple. The man started talking to us and asking us if we were students and what we were studying and when I answered that I was studying Gaelic and his response was "Extrordinary!" I was flabbergasted, I mean what was that "Extraordinary!" so British. And he was like "Why ever would you want to study Gaelic?" I'm like duh "I want to!" British snobbish people trying to be funny = not funny. But it was incredibly stupidly funny.
On Saturday, Hrabba and I went to Allison street the Little India neighbourhood where she wanted to have a petticoat made for her for her saree, and voilá she got it and she could come get it on Monday before she left for home, great. We spent loads of money in a jewellry shop and then we went to an Asian sweet shop The Glasgow Sweet Shop no less and had an assortment of sweets that were sooooo sweet you couldn't eat them. But it was an adventur to try.
We went to the cinema and saw Bridget Jones's Diary: the edge of reason, I reckomend it to anyone. We went to a German Christmas street market and had loads of fun, even went on a Paris wheel in Edinburgh which was incredible and very cold as well, brrrr.
But it was so much fun and we tried new stuff every day. Look forward to seeing you again Hrabba.
And looking forward to seeing everyone again.

They are going home today

My brother, sister-in-law and niece are on their way home now. Should be on their way to the airplane right now as a matter of fact. These last three days have been amazing and wonderful. Yesterday, we took things easy becaus they had already bought enough to fill three suitcases so, we took a taxi to the University of Glasgow and I showed them my school and surrounding. We were very lucky, when we were coming around the corner where the chapell is in Uni, there were lots of people gathered there on the steps for a photoshooting. There was obviously a wedding going on there and it was so amazingly beautiful to see it, and there was a traditional piper there as well in full dress. And beautiful cars, Rolls Royce, Daimler and Jaguar. And this was actually the third wedding we saw that day, because when we were on Argyl street earlier we saw two decorated wedding cars and a couple in one of them. Ohh, it was amazing to see this. Then when we were done ogling my school we went to my place, although we didn't walk home through the garden, we were just tooo cold and took a taxi, there we checked if anything interesting was being shown in the cinema and we went to the UGC and saw the Incredibles and my niece loved it. It was a bit noisy at times but she was managing very well indeed, and sat still for most of the two hours and no problems. I love this little girl. She is sooo smart and funny.
And then I helped them pack, amateurs, thought they would never finish and we did it all in less than an hour. Ohh, I so would like to be going home with them, but I can comfort myself with that that it is only less than four weeks until I come home and this friday my friend Hrabba is coming to keep me company for a bit as well, whooo hooo.

My family's here !!!

Yeah, my brother, sister-in-law and niece came today and wow. We spent the entire day shopping, I thought me and mom were bad, I even thought my friends were bad, but nooooo, it's my niece. She i so adorable. They had already reached the hotel when I got there and she came flying into my arms so I barely had time to put my bags down and she was laughing and saying my name over and over again.
We went into Disney store and my niece grabbed one of those cart-along bags on wheels with Disney princesses on and just didn't let go, no matter what and was on her way out the store, but we managed to hinder her in escaping with her loot, telling her that we had to pay for the stuff first, and my little lady knew exactly what she was doing, she turned around and went further into the shop until she came to the q to the tills and waited, determined to get her bag, so in the end my brother relented and they came out with two massive Disney bags. This was sooo wonderfully funny.
And I also got some carepackets from home from mom, awwww. Yeah, it was nice. And tomorrow.... more shopping and shopping and shopping, and I was the reserved one, I only bought a pair of shoes, just so you know. I am not the one with the problem.

Oooh, I say

It has been a while since I wrote the last time I see.
A lot has been happening. I finished my Gaelic essay yesterday, and I am soooo relieved. So now I can start on my next one, jeiiii. Also, on Saturday I took a wee bit time off from studying and went into town and I had done my shopping mostly and was going to take a taxi home, when in a nutshell, there were no taxis there and I remembered I had a bit of grocery shopping to do as well, so I changed direction and went up Buchanan street where I, in all the traffic of the beginning of Christmas shopping in Glasgow, ran smack into three women that I work with back home in Iceland. They were here over the weekend and are probably back home now. They found it very funny indeed of meeting the only person they know in Glasgow in town just out of the blue like that. I was very nice, really it was. So I send my best with them home.
I am planning on phoning the Icelandic Embassy now, since they were kind enough to send me an invitation to a reception of the Icelandic Ambassador in Edinburgh and I have to confirm that I am coming, a friend of mine will be coming along, since she is coming to Glasgow on the day it is held. So that's going to be a lot of fun.
Last week, was nice as there were no classes in History or Celtic Civ and I only had Gaelic, so I could work on my essay and have now finished it, it is incredibly hard to find 1000 words in Gaelic I must say, so I ended up with only 950. And for me that's enough!
I am sooooooo looking forward to thursday, my brother and sister-in-law and niece are coming here, and I am just bursting with anticipation. So on Wednesday I am going to spend my day tidying my room, hehehehe. Look forward to seeing u!

Guilty!

Yess, I am guilty. Last Saturday I befriended a girl from America, from Pensylvania who actually admitted to having voted for Bush. It took me awhile to accept that and me and Dee really went after her, but she's o.k. I guess, have to get to know her better. But it is odd, I mean I think she is the first person I meet that has even thought about voting for Bush, and Dee who knows a lot of Americans doesn't know anyone who voted for Bush. Really weird.
I got my Salwar-Kamese yesterday finally, and it is really really cool. A friend of mine from India saw it and she was very impressed and said it was very beautiful so you will just have to take her word for it. Maybe I'll post a picture of it later on.
But I am rather sad as well, my friend from India is going back home, and not coming back until maybe January for a short while and then again in May. But I will probably see her again next year, hopefully.
Good luck with everything Lakshmi!

Finally getting better ... just

Yup, that's what was needed. Penicillin! I went to the doctors again and got penicillin and now I am finally getting better. I am finally finding my voice again and not grating everyones nerves around me any more and also I am now starting to be able of delivering a whole sentence without having a fit of coughs in the middle of it.
I was a bit naughty today, I bought a dress. I bought a pink dress with beads on it. I just had tooo, it was just too cute to pass by. I'll probably never wear it in public, but there comes a time when a girl needs to be .... well just girlie.
Looking forward to seeing my brother and family when they come here. In just two weeks, and right now they are moving. And my darling niece is going to get her own room. Ohhh, I want so much to be there right now and help them move, I just need to be a participant in everything big like this, I feel I am missing out on sooooo much right now being here. But I don't think that I would ever regret coming here either. Right now I just miss my family very, very much.
I'm hungry now, I think spending money does that to a person. So I am going to go and taste that chicken I bought. Gwak!

Sick as a dog ... but hopefully getting better

I still cough like crazy, and have a difficult time going to sleep. But I have an appointment with my doctor on Friday and I hope that they will be able to help me some more. Don't want to be with a cough like this for the rest of the year.
I am sooooo loooking forward to tonight, and I know I will seem really really strange because of it but hay, I can't help it. Tonight is the U.S. Presidential elections, and ohboy, it looks like it's going to be fun. I'm rooting for Kerry, just because I really want to get rid of the primate that is in the White House now. I saw a really funny slogan today, and if you don't know the Democratic mascot is the donkey (or ass, depending how you look at it) and the Republican's is the Elephant. Well, the slogan went like this; "Deomcrats are sexy ... who ever heard of a nice piece of elephant!" I don't know why, but I just find this hilarious, probably shows my simple mindedness but hay, you'll live longer if you make merry.
Well, have to continue with my studying.