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!

0 comments :