Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Ta-Ka Þ-e-TT-a Til Ba-Ka

All right, so now i have so much stuff to tell ya´ll about. I am placed in Akureyri, came here last Tuesday, thought i was about to DIE!! Let´s start from the beginning...
Tuesday:
As i had slept too long after 3 hours of sleep, i realized i still had to get all my shit together at my aunt´s house and leave Reykjavík. It had been decided that i would take the bus there (good ol´ 5 hours) since that made the most sense. I had called the night before asking if there was any limit with luggage, telling the man on the phone that i had 2 giant trash bags, 2 suitcases, 2 rolley suitcases, 1 sports bag, 2 small boxes, 1 chair and 1 bike. I think the man on the phone definatly fell for my sexy but sweet voice, because he said that it should be no problem. Then, the morning of my day of departure, i show up 15 minutes before the bus is to leave with all that shit and a smile on my face. it is fairly obviouse that the man driving the bus was not the same gentleman who i talked to on the phone, because this guy was not happy. after he "tetris-ed" everything into the bus, he was more than pissed to realize that i still had a bike! Then came the "de-tetris-ing" of all the luggage in the bus only to stack it all back in a couple minutes later. ;) He didn´t look at me the entire way up to Akureyri. haha. Then when i got here i got a look at my room and i really liked it. then i ate dinner with my great-aunt and family and listened to the beautiful a-Kur-eyrís-Ka dialect. I couldn´t help but laugh a little inside of me. Then when i got home i walked around until i found a video store, rented some movies and went to bed.
Wednesday:
On this long day i finished preparing my room and went and hung at a coffee house for like 3 hours. I swear i had abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do! i was borred out of my bloody mind! but it´s nothing that a couple of high caffeined coffee drinks can´t fixed. :) Then i went again to the video store, visited my friend the video man, and rented 2 movies. What an exciting day in the life of Hildur.
Thursday:
I don´t really remember Thursday, except that i went to the pool and hung out, once again.... by myself. Not getting enough of myself, i took myself on a date to a coffee house. Grand.
Friday:
Yep, hung out once again at a coffee house. yeah! Then that night i went on my desperate attempt to make friends with the people they call Akureyríngar.

This species is quite sensitive to girls, specially ones with wannabe dreads and freckles. They eat hamburgers with fries inbetween the buns and are very proud of their coke in a bottle. Life span reaches 116 years for males and 180 years for females. from THE BOOK OF ICELANDIC PEOPLE
Since my description does not suit these sorts very well, the only person who ended up talking to me was an old drunk. YIPPEE! my lucky days just keep on coming. As this drunk was talking to me, i enticed him to buy me two Guinness´s. Yes Abby, you heard right, Guinness´s. mmm. Then in my sad state, i ditched the guy, went to my lovely coffee place, had 2 mojito´s, got piss drunk, went to a night sale where I of course ended up offending the poor guy serving me because i asked him if it wasn´t in Akureyri where they put Potatoe salad and... "potatoe salad and red cabbage... NO. it´s unbelievable how many people we get from the city who are always asking that question. what do they think we are?" Right ass hole. then i walked home... left my trail of french fries on the cars, until i realized that my french fries were good and i wanted to keep them all to myself... and as thinking this, stuffed handfulls into my mouth. Arriving at home i died in my bed. Lovely.
Saturday:
Probably rented some movies and did absolutely nothing.
Sunday:
Ahah, nothing again! Then I went to dinner at my aunts. Pleasant.
Well, I´ll write more about school and how it´s been later. If this bores you, then don´t read it... It´s long. All right, adios COMPADRES! best of wishes to everybody!

Monday, August 16, 2004

Back on the Klake

All right... so i´m back in Iceland now. The trip here was all right, except for the quick life flashing before my eyes ride "above" fierce winds when flying from Norfolk to Washington. I don´t understand why the captain is always like, "ehhh, we´re flying over a storm right now so it will be a little bumpy" while i´m sitting there grabbing onto whatever stable substance i could get. but, i had my cosmo so as i was reading 100 things guys want girls to do in bed, the bumpy ride was not all that bad. haha. but yea, it was sad saying bye to the family, always is. but, then there is something to look forward to. :) well, i got dreadlocks on thursday. they are twisties so it´ll take like 2 weeks for them to really set in. I can not wait for the madness to get all nappy and tight. on Friday, my last night in williamsburg, i siezed the day till 6 am, not wanting the next day to come. i hung out at arni´s and nathan´s, pestering all the people who were attempting to pass out. NONE OF THAT, BIATCH! but yea, it was fun and sad at the same time. Today i didn´t do much. After i got to Sólveig´s apartment, i went to the bakery and picked up some schisnit to eat. Then i was going to take like a 1 hour nap and all of a sudden I woke up at 5!! whua! my 1 hour nap turned into an 8 hour slumber. But that´s rest that was much needed. I just got back from Kofa Tómasar Frænda. I was there with Kólbeinn and Kristofer. It was sooooooo good to see them again! I really like those guys. They are so great, even though Kris was being a dick and talking to his cute friend without me. But, you gotta love the British Tea Biscut... because he´s british. I told Krazy K about my "meeting Collin Ferrell" story. He was like "why did you have duck tape on your face?" and i was like "does duck tape have to happen for a reason?" His thugness couldn´t come up with a snazy remark so he took it like a bitch. Bitch is the word now. Everytime i say it i think of Leah scrunching up her face saying "that´s Garfield Bitch!!!!!". Gotta love it! So, I am staying with my cousin and her boyfriend as i speak, and she´s studying for her final which is on Wednesday. Good timing Hildur. My bad. I think i´m going to try to go to Akureyri on Tuesday... whua Law School here I come. Hopefully it´ll be a blast. All right, i´ll blog when i have something more cool to say. Till then, "buy some cats!" cuz MC´s, I just wanna hang out. Peace.

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

THAT'S GARFIELD BITCH!

So... I haven't blogged in forever. That's what happens in the summer time though. Right, good excuse since i have been doing this for so long :p anyways, tonight was the "last night" that i got to hang out with Leah. It's so sad to realize that i'm not going to see her again until maybe Christmas! That goes along with the whole gang too! Man. It's really funny though, cuz Leah, Abby and I are all going to be starting a whole new "life" this fall. Abby up in Wisconsin, Leah at MW and I at Akureyri. CRAZY! But, that's what life is all about, making decisions, meeting people and just enjoying the moment. But seriously, i do not know what I had done had I not met up with Chris that day (as posted below) at the Cheese Shop. That just has made my whole summer. These cool cats are like the coolest people in Williamsburg! They are people with whom you can have real conversations with and who go to coffee houses every single night and never get borred with just hanging out. Seriously though, we have a coffee house addiction. I don't think we've skipped a night of coffee housing for a while except on maybe the weekends. Insane. There we talk about our inside jokes ("THAT'S GARFIELD BITCH!" and "GIVE ME SOME SCONES NOKKA" <- my way of spelling it :p) It's just so funny how things turn up. Like Leah and I weren't close at all in high school, but now it's like i don't know how i would have survived the summer without her. In conclusion: TO THE GANG I FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS SUMMER, THANK YOU!!!