Friday, February 11, 2005

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

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

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

Thursday, February 03, 2005

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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