the password is hildur hildur

NEW PHOTOPAGE! To view the pictures on the photopage, you have to put in the password hildur hildur. Enjoy

komin norður

Back am I to Akureyri. JOY! Oh, Suðureyri was great! It´s unbelievable how much fun one can have in a hmm... 350 people town. Great fun. Aldrei fór ég suður was splendid... I think i´m in love with the singer in Hjálmar... his name is probably Hjálmar. Reggae guy who I think is gorgeous! I took some pictures while I was there, I´ll have to put them on the net soon. I also am going to put my new photopage on this blog in a little bit. I will not put a lot of older pictures on it, but we´ll see. As i am sitting in class, all i can think about is ONLY A MONTH LEFT TILL I´M DONE IN SCHOOL!!! woohoo!!! I can´t wait to go back to the USA. Bobby Fischer is an Icelandic citizen now... haha, that´s great. I don´t have much to say at the moment. Ciao.

Aldrei fór ég Suður

Oh how life is good here in Suðureyri. Gram and gramps are slendid, the friends are great and the pool is fantastic. Tonight is 'Aldrei fór ég suður', a rock concert with many many bands. It´s in Ísafjörður and it´s gonna be KRAZY FUN! I´m going to a dinner party first though, but then Ísafjörður is on the artinerary. I went to a birthday party last night, and i felt like i was in a hen house... yap yap yap yap yap... thankfully my friend tinna was there to even out the insanity. Afterwards me and Tinna walked around Suðureyri for a while, instead of going to a concert (ball). We have a life.
So the little bro has a blog page... how funny! He´s such a cutie. Pictures from this spring break will come on the page sometime soon... i got another photopage that i will need to put on the net soon. aight, ciao!!!
xoxo
'Aldrei var ég Hildur'

The bloody dentist

As I was writing a letter to my lovely friend Doro in Germany, I had a slip back to my last dentists visit... this is what I wrote her:
'I tell ya, them dentists can take a really long time, and they don´t make the wait pleasurable at all.... you go into their office, smell the nasty plastic and toothpaste smell in their office, have a seat, scrounge throught he many magazines until you finally find one that is somewhat appealing, 'Home Gardening', sit there actually noticing that your nails are growing because your waiting so long. When you finally get into the office, you sit with your mouth open for hours, try to answer the questions that they ask you while they are cleaning your teeth, with no success at all, for if you answer their questions, you either swallow the nasty ass shit they put into your mouth, or just end up mummling some words that do not make any sense, spitting a little on the dentists goggles. Not wanting to be rude, you try to answer, resulting in spitting and swallowing. Finally when you walk out of there your jaw is killing you, you look like your dog (tounge out, drooling, mouth open because jaw is so tired) try to look normal, but look even dumber because as you attempt to make it look like your mouth is closed, you are clenching your entire face looking like a toothless old man. Then you have to book your next appointment, try to set a date, spitting all over the place while trying to make out words but not working because the novicane was too damn strong. finally after you´ve given up and let the lady in the office just set the date and time for the next appointment, you go home, try to drink some coffe, but fail because you just burned your entire mouth and neck, for you forgot you couldn´t feel the burning liquid in your mouth.'
uuuuufffffff..... what you do for healthy teeth... ;) hehe

Yes, the lovely dentist... i think the lovely trip to the manicure and peticure studio will be next on the artinerary :)

No new photopage

I have been deleted. Barnaland no longer wants my beautiful pictures on its homepage. Well, considering that it is a program for newly mothers and mothers to be, I do not find it wierd that they threw my drinking pictures off. Hmmm, what´s wrong with them? I do not know. This weekend we had the "Yearly-celebration" or Árshátið. The theme was casino, and it was SPLENDID! I had sooooo much fun! Wish I had taken some pictures!!! MAN! Well, not like some of you would be able to see the pictures... hmm. This is not good, I have to find some way to figure out a new picture page. Akureyri is good. The weather has been good. School is, um, still going on.... grand fun. Hope everyone had a good weekend.

The Beatles truth

If there´s anything that you want. If there´s anything I can do. Just call on me and I´ll send it along, with love from me to you.
What a beautiful line. Is it not? That is a person saying that they will do whatever you ask them to do, and they´ll do it with love. What a great jesture! Is this only something that was back in the good-ole days, the 60´s, or do we still do these kinds of favours willingly? Maybe it was all the free love back then, or people´s reaction to war and they just felt like they should do things for people without thinking "what do I get from this?" Wouldn´t that be a great world we would live in if people thought more about others and less of themselves? Has our world turned into a place where you cannot survive unless you suck the soul out of you mates?
Love, all we need is love.
Love is all we need, I agree with you Paul McCartney. I would do anything to see the children in Africa smiling, to hear that AIDS is no longer a problem in this disease infested world of ours. Love is a healer and we must learn to nurture that thought. If we stop the racism, facistm, and predudice, them maybe we can learn to love those who are different from us. Put aside the money, the greed, and notice that there is more to the world then what you think. This world could be a beautiful, beutiful place if we broke down the walls of naiveness and shortsightedness.
Imagine all the people, sharing all the world. You may say I´m a dreamer, but I´m not the only one.
-Lenon

xoxo
Hildur Sólveig

Akureyrar sitý

I'm in an Akureyri... state of mind.... So, Reykjavík was grand! I had so much fun! We got there on Thursday, and we went on the town, Friday was basically free time. I met up with Stína and we hung out all day. Then that evening we went to Póstbarinn and hooked us up with some cheap drinks. Then we went to Pravda and partied till the break of dawn. Well, maybe not break of dawn, since it doesn´t get bright so early, but ya´ll get the point. Then on Saturday I met up with Vala and Anna from Suðureyri, and then I went to Hveragerði. Then when I left Hveró, I went back to the hotel where madness was going on. There were tons of people just hanging out at the hotel with a guitar. I ended up taking the first song, getting the guitar party started (with my abnoxious voice) and then the guy playing the guitar ended up playing "rap". This guy Hannes, who is in the "party commitee" started dissing some people, and they all started dissing him back, and then people were like, THE LAWYER´S NOW! That meant me, cuz i was the only law student there, and it ended up that me and Hannes were going back and forth the entire night rhyming and dissing each other. We were standing on chairs and it was straight up HALLARIOUS! Then we finished with a peaceful rhyme, sang some songs and then went downtown. The entire night people were telling me how I kicked his ass, which makes no sense because he dissed me soooooo bad. But, since the public opinion is what matters, we´ll stop the story there ;) When we went downtown I met up with Stína again and we had soooooo much fun! I HAVE MISSED HER LIKE CRAZY! It was so good to meet up with her AND KRISTÓFER again! I saw a glimps of Kólbeinn, but he was working so I didn´t see him too much... :( I just shat on myself today in a test, shit. We´ll see how that went. I think i´m getting sick... when does the madness stop? I can´t wait to see gramps and grams again... they´re lovely I got an email from Leah the other day, miss her!!! I talked to Anna on the phone the other day, MISS HER TOO! I want everyone to take care of themselves and stay happy :) xoxo Hildur Sólveig

Reykjavík city here I come

Well, the University is going on a "field trip" to Reykjavík. We leave today, drive back on Sunday. I cannot wait and I know it will be tons of fun. I cannot wait to see my Rvk people! I will most likely go to Hveragerði on Saturday, Soffía´s 40th birthday, and see the fam there. Yippee! It would have been great had mum come to Iceland, but you can´t have everything ;) Well, cheers till then, and I just want to tell people that I just added some viewable pictures to the picture page. All right, I hope everyone has a great weekend. Adios xoxo the RVK gal

Terrible things are happening

Yesterday I was watching the tube, like many others, and after Jay Leno came a biography movie about the children in Palestine. Yes, it was a movie about the Israel- Palestine problem that has been going on since after WW2. Palestine is a country, or maybe that is just an ideal thought, that is being taken over and invaded by the Israelies. When I was watching the film I tried to watch it with an open mind, tried to see it from a neutral point of view, but my anger just soared as I saw a huge army tank rummage through the streets of Palestine, scaring children by speeding towards them and Israeli soldiers shooting in order to scare the children. I will admit that the children were throwing rocks and such at the tanks, but what are several pebles to a huge army tank? Being a soldier in one of them tanks, getting rocks thrown at me non-stop, I believe I would get a little bit annoyed, but then if I was an Israeli soldier in a tank, in the Palestine area, pretending to have some power over the Palestinians, I would think to myself... "WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING HERE?!?" It's also amazing to see how the Palestine people worship the people who die. It is seen as being inappropriet to cry when a person dies due to Israeli soldiers. Those who die are martyrs, dying for their faith. You saw small children talking about how they wanted to be martyrs and die for Palestine. Where does this nationalism come from? It of course comes from the hate for those who are invading their lives. The Palestine people are prisoners within their own towns, checkpoints blocking the roads out, Israeli soldiers in the mountains, ready to shoot at any Muslim when they find the need. The constant terror that the Palestine live with is not a thing which people should have to put up with. It is a violation of their human rights, the right to be a human being. Living constantly in fear of course draws out the anger and irrationability in the people. Damn, I can tell you all that by watching that movie, I became ashamed of being where I was. Living in Iceland in a country so peaceful, studying a topic that will, most likely, help those who have money. I felt that I should be somewhere else helping others, letting others know about the war crimes being done by the Israelies in Palestine. Hopefully this post will open the minds of others, and show them that the way that the Israelies are acting towards the Palestinians, is the exact same way that the Nazi's acted towards the Jews. Just terrible that this is what the USA are supporting. Pray for peace on Earth, Hildur Sólveig

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HELP!

If anyone can tell me of a photo page that does not cost anything and has a lot of memory for you to put on it... PLEASE tell me. The new photo page doesn't take any more pictures, and not everyone can view the old page. Therefore, I need a new album. I just wasted quite a lot of time trying to find stuff, and I really need to start writing my 6-8 page essay. JOY! HELP ME PLEASE!
xoxo
the not so "computer-clever" blogger

Pictures Pictures Pictures

I have just posted the pictures that I took this Christmas on the picture page! Please tell me, those of you in the US, if you are unable to view the pictures. I don't think ya'll can, so i'm going to have to find another picture page... but until I do, the pictures are GREAT! take my word for it! :) xoxo Hildur Sólveig

The Mockery

Akureyri, the place where Icelanders want to go to go ski. It would be great if I would actually have my ski's with me. MAN OH MAN! I really should check it out and see how much old ski's cost. That would be the solution to my problems. But seeing how old ski boots treat me, i'm a little skeptic about how long they would actually last me. Hmm, we'll see. All I know is that I really should go skiing soon! The great outdoors. So, I finally moved all my stuff into my place on Thursday! FINALLY! My room is so ultimately COZY that I just really don't ever want to leave it, but then my parakeet starts yelling at me and will not stop... the constant nag of a sharp piercing chirp. So, then I have to get my ass out of my room, or... throw the damn thing into the storing room :) No just kidding, I don't really do that. This weekend was all right... ELSA (European Law Students Association) Iceland came to Akureyri and had some sort of lecture which included beer for us while we were listening. Then we went to Víking which is a beer plant, and we got to taste some of their delicious beer, then we went out to eat, and then a party which had 2 fairly big buckets of beer. The law department paid for the beer (can´t wait to see the expression on the foreman when he finds that out)!! :) Then after that we went downtown. There weren´t that many people out that night, but I had fun. Stopped some young bloke, who probably just got his drivers license, and had him jet me home. Haha, hey what can you do? These kids drive around the town, in the same circle every weekend, and expect not to get stopped? No, but the kids in the car thought I was hallarious (long time since that happened!) and really pulled through with the nice gesture. Then on the Saturday I rented some movies and just had it really cozy, all by myself. I woke up Sunday feeling great and cleaned the entire apartment. SVO DUGLEG! thank you thank you... ;) But yea, it was a nice weekend. Today my group lost in the mock trial that we did for class, even though I think we kicked ass! hehe... reasonable doubt there... NOT! the mockery... Well, this is sounding like a journal so I´m going to stop. SEND ME MONEY SO i CAN GO SKIING! Mock loser

The Commoner

How good it is to be a commoner. Use the common language, read the common book, see the common things and laugh at the common jokes. The commoner wears the common clothes, eats the common food and thinks the common ideas. He wants to be among the commoners, blocks out the non-commoners and walks about the commons singing his commonly known song. Oh, the commoner has a good life. That is also why the commoner uses the Common Law. Life here in Akureyri is going well. My plan to move in though isn't going anywhere... still have not moved my bed and stuff, oh how time flies when you are sleeping on an oh so comfy couch. Times are busy and no time to move. My aunt will help me though perhaps tomorrow. Coaching has started again, twice a week. The kids are so great and I am just so happy at work. Classes are all right... just haven't really fallen into the "study mode" yet, but that'll come with a little time. Um, homesickness has hit a couple of times... not good. But, before you know it, i'll be in the sunshine hitting the waves. The ski slopes have opened here in Akureyri, if only my ski boots hadn't exploded on me. Damn boots :) SO HALLARIOUS! Well, i'm really hungry and am going to go eat. I have to be more consistant with writting here. Adios! xoxo Commoner

They call me the walking Snowplow

All right... well i'm back in Iceland, sitting in the library listening to The Smashing Pumpkins, trying to keep the tear from falling from my eye because it reminds me of Chris. When I think of Chris, I think of Anna, Leah, Gabe (who i didn't get to say bye to), John, Jeremiah and just everybody. All of a sudden I just got a homesick feeling, so I decided that I would blog. Yea, I haven't done that in a while, but hey... i was on break. Yes, sometimes I need to part away from my lovely computer... but I think the thing was that I was just having so much fun and so relaxed there at home, that I really just did not find any reason to blog about anything. I had all I needed. Well, it is good to be back here in Akureyri, but quite uneventful. I have a 20% test tomorrow, God help me. It is going to be a christmas tree test. Hopefully my lucky dice still works. Um, the apartment is good. My room is a bit small, but rooms usually look smaller when there is nothing in them. I haven't gotten anyone to help me move my bed, bookshelf or drawer. It'll be interesting to see how that will work out. Well, nothing will happen til tomorrow, because I have to study! So, you wanna talk about weather? Yea, -12 degrees C, TONS OF SNOW!!! Lovely, eh? Well, yesterday I decided to go to the store, had to buy some food for the new apartment, and I filled up two bags of groceries. Well, I decided to walk past my old house, when I get this brilliant idea that I will hang the two bags on the wheel of the bike so that my arms won´t fall off. So I go get my bike, covered in snow, dust it off and hang the bags on the steering wheel. Then I start walking. It was a little bit trivial at first, but I got the hang of it after a little bit. So I keep walking, even attempt, KEY WORD ATTEMPT, to sit on the bike without success, until I see that the trail in the snow all of a sudden stops! What the hell was that?!? The wind had blown the snow all over the walking path, and there was only this tiny trail of footmarks left. Since I was wearing my snazzy new rubber-boots, i walked in the snow and tried to plow my bike through the snow, grocery bags flying all over the place, a Cambell´s soup can banging against my leg and NO GLOVES! TE-RRRRRR-IBLEEEE hea hea hea hea (haha, Anna that´s Claire! ;) ) HAha, well i´m over and out. Miss Plowman

what a wonderful morning

MERRY MERRY MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS! MERRY MERRY MERRY MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS! MERRY MERRY MERRY MERRY MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS! yeps, and that's all i gots to says.... xoxo christmas bunny

23 December 2004

All right! So, back again! SKIING WAS SO MUCH FUN!!! Wow, the guys were great, saw a couple of stallions, 1 snow bunny (seriously, there was a guy dressed in a bunny suit) and a whole shit load of snow. I think that bunny guy was wearing the Easter costume, hmm... we'll never know now, since i didn't ask him. The main goal for the guys during the evening hours was to go to a bar and find some snow bunnies. I showed them the guy in the suit, but that's obviously not what they were talking about. I'm so confused. Hehe, no... they talk about bunnies, i talk about stallions. We all had an understanding of how the system works. :) Um, since i've been back i've just really been hanging out. Not doing much at all except for rotting at coffee houses with Anna and Leah. Arnþór is convinced that there's some coke in the coffee... he really doesn't understand why I go to Aroma's like 2 times a day. The mysteries of Hildur. But maybe there is some interesting point in Thor's inquiry. Maybe not, we'll never know. Well, this blasphamous writing is giving me a headache... so i think i'm going to stop. Tomorrow is my Christmas! I can't wait.... i've been singing WHAM! all day :) "Last Christmas I gave you my heart but the very next day you gave it away!" Cruel cruel people, hehe MERRY CHRISTMAS! XOXO Hildur

Everything is WOOHOO!

ALL RIGHT! WooHoO! So i'm back home! Úfff you don´t know how good it feels to be back! I´m flabergasted cuz i´m so excited! This morning, I woke up and it was light outside... 7 o´clock and light! OH MY GOD! So good to be out of the dreary darkness. Not only was it light outside, but I also actually spoke to people! yes, my friends, you heard right, PEOPLE! not were these people only people, but they were my FAMILY. Oh it was so nice and homey! Today I just kinda hung around, until I went to Aroma´s (coffehouse in Colonial Williamsburg). Oh, funny story. On my way there, I had to get gas. Pull up to the pump, look for the button to open up the gas flap (don´t know what it´s called), but to my surprise, there was none. I was seriously sitting in my car trying to find the damn button for like 15 minutes! I kept thinking to myself, "hmm... it´s probably soooo obvious, but i´m to disturbed to not see it", so I (feeling like a complete dumbass) ask this guy (a mexican who didn´t really speak english) to help me find the button. He was hopeless so I just said thank you and called my dad collect on the payphone! HOW PATHETIC IS THAT! And to my surprise, he said that there is no button (yeaps, figured that out myself) and that I just needed to push on the flap. TECHNOLOGY THESE DAYS! Unbelievable! haha! Yea, so I went to Aroma´s and sat there chillin, drinking my latté, and drawing, when no one else but LEAH came! WOOHOO! I was so excited that... um... I just couldn´t hide it! So, we drank some teath staining coffee, chatted and just enjoyed the moment, when no one else but ANNA shows up! WOOHOO! I tell ya, what a good day! awwww... :) So, now i´m waiting to go to my brothers violin concert... that little mozart... and then i´m gonna call my bizes up. Tomorrow I go on a weekend trip with my bro to go skiing! WOOHOO! It´ll be a blasted blast! I´m so excited! UGH IT WAS SO GOOD, AND STILL IS, TO SEE MY FAM! best feeling in the world! xoxo the "WOOHOO" girl

a penny saved is a penny earned

All right... so i'm ALMOST done with school! WOOHOO! i took my 40% exam yesterday, wrote about the barbaric invasions of the Germs and so. It went fine... cross my fingers...! So yesterday there was a cocktail party at KB Banki, a bank here in Iceland. The law students were invited to the bank, where they introduced a little bit why lawyers were needed in banks and so. They also freshed us up with red wine, white wine, beer and snacks. I tell you, I most definatly think we should invited ourselves to KB Banki a little more often! IT WAS GREAT! Free party night! Didn't have to worry about buying beer or nothin. "KB Banki, they're GRREEEAATTT". Oh can't you see Tony the Tiger saying that in a suit with a breafcase in his hands? Well, those of you who can't, suck. Hehe no just kidding. After the cocktail party, I changed and went to a birthday party. It was so much fun! Haukur had a karaoke party going on and, no... I didn't sing. That comes as a surprise! Knowing me, I would have thought I would be singing waterloo, dancing and going crazy. Well, I did all of that anyway, except sing waterloo... I'll just leave that to ABBA. Of course I had to show my skills on the guitar and play "ÞAÐ BLANDA ALLIR LANDA Á SÚGANDA", crazy skills on the GuItAr. Then, I went to Amour, sat there and watched my FAVORIT trubador play!!! HE'S SO COOL! Haha, didn't get his number though... haha Sólveig! Oh, something exciting... Sólveig and I are getting an apartment in January! FINALLY I GET TO TALK TO SOMETHING OTHER THAN MY COMPUTER! woohoo! I´ll have to keep ya´ll posted with news on that. Well, I´m kinda worn out from last night, so I don´t have much to say... and what I say is fairly dull... so I think i´ll stop torturing you all. "a penny saved is a penny earned" - how I wish I would follow this moto. toodles, the tired one

Ain't no sunshine when it RAINS

So, lovely day today here in Akureyri, wind blowing, ice melting and practically no daylight at all. Oh how the weather in Iceland is unbelievably good. YEA RIGHT. You know, i'm not kidding when i say it didn't get light at all, because it did't. And now, at four o' clock, it is dark and dreary, raining and just wet. Wet wet wet. I was contemplating this morning if I should buy iceskates, because I was slippin and slidin the whole way to school. It's unbelievable what we vikings have to put up with. Haha, I even started thinking, because I do so much of that on my walk to school, how "cool" I would be if I would show up to class with iceskates flung around my shoulder. Further into that thought, I started laughing... realizing that if I would pursue my idea, I would most likely fall, stab myself with the skate that were flung around my shoulder, and die. Hmm, best leave that idea only in my head... oh the great things that I come up with! :) (even though I would look awesome with my skates)!!! So, I think I should get a medal. No, not because of my brilliant idea with the skates, but because I conquered my bed this morning and was able to get to class! WOOHOO! Only about 15 minutes late (we'll blame that on the skate-less walk to school) ;) Oh, I forgot to write about the SPLENDID and most beautiful concert that I went to last Thursday. The concert: Eivor Palsdottir, who has the most beautiful voice ever!! Seriously, when I left Græni Hattinn, I was in a trance. Her voice is a beautiful piece of art... if you can say that. Sure, it´s my sentence, I say what I want. On the way home, Sólveig got to hear my constant squeeky voice describing everything, oh and i mean EVERYTHING, which I thought was great. And when I wasn´t talking, I was speachless! It was LOVELY! Haha, and when I parted with Sólveig, I sang the whole way home, trying with great passion to hit the pitches which she sang, which turned out to be an ungodly act of me... but hey, it made the ICE under my FEET start cracking!! Maybe that´s a method of survival which I should continue to pursue... especially when I´m walking my ass to school. Then there´ll be no falling for Miss Hildur... xoxo The Ice-breaker

13 DAYS!!! bed FiGhTs and frost...

OH i can´t wait to go home. THERE´S NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!! Ahhh... this is seriously starting to become an obsession. I can´t fall asleep at night because i´m starting to plan what i´m going to do while i´m home. Take the dogs to cw, go get coffee, and sow. Knowing me, i´ll probably only spend 1 day in sowing, won´t give a damn about the dogs, even forget to feed them, and sit all by myself rotting at the coffee houses. Haha, no just kidding, I think i´m going to have a blast. Relaxing and stuff. Oh, so something good happened today.... an essay which I though I was supposed to hand in tomorrow isn´t due til after a week! Ha! God must be playing with my head, I must have hear wrong. The Christmas spirit must be in my stallion of a teacher, haha! no, he´s a great teacher, just feel a little guilty because i haven´t been showing up too often. Actually, I´ve barely been showing up at all. I tell you, every single morning I have a terrible terrible fight with my bed. I hit it, bite it, and yell at it to let me wake up and go to school, but where as my strong will is just not AS STRONG as the will of my bed, I usually sleep through lesson and just go up to the school library. The battles which one must go through every day. It´s not strange though that one does not want to wake up, I mean, it doesn´t get bright til around 11, and before then, all you can hear is the wind blowing and the frost forming on your window. No desire to go into the cold I tell you. And also the fact that I have to walk 15 minutes to get to school just destroys my will. Oh how my life is hard... wah! haha just kidding.

Well, 13 days til I go home! I´M SO DAMN EXCITED! CHEERS!

Hildur Sólveig