Posts from ‘December, 2008’

Coming home has made me realize how much I miss my family. Its silly but when I was in Iceland I didnt think too much about it. I did miss them but not to the extent that I am feeling now. I think I have just realized that I have moved country and I dont [...]

Hey there! I have been so busy over the last couple of days I just haven’t had the chance to do a blog! I have finally managed to have ten minutes to myself…which I shall use productively…doing a blog :p Hope you are all well and have had a great few days! Cant believe it [...]

Hey! Can you believe it is 3 days until Christmas?!? I dont even know what day it is at the moment! 2008 has been such an amazing year…but more about that another time. Theres so much going on.. people to do/things to see :p Hope everyone is well and enjoying the festive fun! My mum [...]

Last night we went to Sams sisters place for a ‘Christmas party’ but there was no santa hats or Christmas songs! However, it was a really good night catching up with people and seeing the surprise on their faces when we say we live in Iceland lol I had a really good time dancing with [...]

Yesterday I drove to Keflavik airport This was something I was scared of doing but I’m glad I did it! The journey got off to a rocky start when I lost concentration and drove straight into a pile of snow..and beached the car! Lucky I guy who works for SCS drove past and stopped to [...]

Tomorrow we are coming home from Iceland..even though Iceland is our home. It has been 6 weeks and 2 days since we got here but it doesn’t feel like it has been that long. It feels like only yesterday we packed our bags and came here. I have mixed emotions about coming home. I’m really excited [...]

Hello! Today I borrowed some kitchen weighing scales off of Óðinn and Jónella so that i could bake some cookies I wanted to make some plain old chocolate chip ones but I was on youtube and saw Nigella Lawsons version of them and thought they would be much nicer Albeit more calorific! So i needed to [...]

Hi everyone! We have had another great day. In the morning we lounged about; doing not a lot. In the afternoon we went to Óðinns house. Sam helped Óðinn install some cabling and put up some Christmas lights…although Sam gave up half way through beause he was too cold. It was a warm -6 degrees. [...]

Yesterday at ‘work’ we had a Little Christmas. Which in Icelandic is Litlu jól. In the morning they went to work to work 8-10.30am and then the whole of SCS went to church. The church was the one in my pictures I took the first week we came here. Inside it was really small and [...]