Reykjavik today in the morning. I woke up, looked through the window and saw it's white all around. I didnt wait a minute quickly dressed myself up and went outside to take some pictures. I love you Iceland for making me experience everything even if not all of them are positive we can turn them so be so.




I have not been inspired enough to write anything since my last post appeared....Lots of stuff has been going on recently and I haven't digested it yet I think. My head feels a bit empty but I keep seying to myself 'el tiempo todo calma' and it's true so why are we spending out time grieving over things we cannot change . It's not possible to turn the clock of time back. We just need to go on...a little help of patience might be needed. It's the most important tool we have to craft...Life is just like a sculpture and it requires an extraordinary amount of patience. I think Iceland is a proper place to learn how to be forbearing. My life has turned a new leaf and I've just become aware of how many things I already learnt and how much I will learn more. I've been confronted with my drawbacks and imperfections but at the same time I discovered bright sides of my personality. I realised how much I love Reykjavik . I woke up early today I looked through the window and saw snow....It's nothing new we have lots of snow in Poland but apparently it made me happy and relieved. A new day has come. I need to pull myself together and do things I've been planing to do for a long time but well I havent accomplished any of them. So let me officially jot them down here. I want to : learn Icelandic, boost my English up, learn Swedish, start going to Karma Kaguy centre in Reykjavik(buddhism), be active, get to know as many people as possible, write a lot more to be able to come up with an exquisite novel in the near future.
At the beginning on my Icelandic journey I had been living alone and then after two months Dana joined me (thanks for being here). Soon more people are going to fill this house up. 3 guys each of them will bring a piece of their own country into this house. Sweden, England, Iceland, Moldova and Poland- so international I love it :)

I put all of the negative emotions that have been haunting me for the past days aside . Quoting Bob Marley ' Don't worry about the things cuz every little thing's gonna be alright."

I think Im boring with my rants a bit so Im posting some pictures today. Have fun looking at them.
my best mates here in Iceland dont we resemble sugabebes a bit?huh ;) yes Sugababes are back in town going to party today just as at the time I arrived. Love u gals.

Anniversary

Another month has passed since I came here. It's the second one. Many things has happened to me during that certain period of time. I've also gone through different phases of emotions. From being extremaly happy to the state of melancholy - me down in the dumps. Let's start with the negative things. I had been living alone in this house for more than a month, was feeling alone, a bit lost and useless. Sometimes I still get this feeling that nobody needs me here in my work, but I'm so looking forward to seeing changes in this matter. Now writing this I realized I don't have anything negative more to list. I've learnt a lot about myself,that I never give up, I'm very sociable and friendly. Even though everyone of us has their flaws and drawbacks we are able to expose positive traits of our character in case to let the negative ones just fade away. I met amazyingly wonderful people here from all over the world and each of them is my light everytime I'm feeling blue they are always there for me. Thank you guys. I've seen the golden circle , was huming Emiliana Torini's Jungle Drum many times. I've been to the Bjork's concert, and the day after I just met her in the hot tub. The first day I arrived I saw nothern lights. I've also become more independent. I want to thank you guys so I will just put thank you in every language I know :
Takk fyrir
Enkosi
Merci bcp
tack så mycket
danke schön
XBAЛA
Spasiba
Shukran
Gracias
Dakujem
Dziękuję
Multumesc


P.S After two months I've finally smoked sheesha and was showing people how to make circles out of the smoke :D

me and sheesha coal - Habibi the most popular and overused word in arabic language :D

my gals from left Maria(DEN), Katharina(GER),me(POL), Sarah (FRA), Katharina (GER)


We rly look like Sugababes. Nikiwe first from the right is my partner in crime, my best party companion and such a dear Love you GAL :*

Icelandic literature : 101 Reykjavik

Before I came to Iceland I decided to take a look at Icelandic cinema. The first movie I had seen was Hallgrumur Helgason's "101 Reykjavik". I didn't like the movie as much as I enjoyed reading this novel.Anyway I did it the opposite way, since I had seen a movie and then read a book afterwards. I bought it here in Reykjavik in Eydmundsson book store. Let me paste my favorite bits from the book without commenting it.

"Waking up never gets easier. It's like you've been buried for 400 years and have to claw your way through six feet of mud. Every day. The light filters through the curtains. All of a suden it's as if the numbers on my radio were years 1601. Woke up too earlym not due to be born for 400 years"


"Home. Nothing but mommy sleep and darkness. I turn the lights on in the kitchen and have some Cheerios with the morning paper. Keanu Reeves is unhappy with his life. Roseanne is having a tatoo with the name of her ex-husband removed. A woman in Arkansas has her newborn tattooed : Mom"

"My name is Hlynur Bjorn Hafsteinsoon. I was born on 18.02.62. Today is 15.12.95. I lie between those numbers. I was born on Saturday. Today is Saturday. Life is a week. Every weekend I pass away. One week.A history of mankind precedes it, and another one will follow. I'll be dead after I die, and I was dead before I was born. Life is a break from death. You can't be dead all the time."

Disadvantages of being sick and alone

Cold, unbearable sore throat and my head is spinning around like crazy plus I'm looking like a crap. And I'm completely alone, since my flatmate has gone to the Golden Circle. I've also planned on partying today and many other activities that I'm supposed to do with a group of people. What to do now then? Call it all off? Shit life is hard, when you are in a foreign country just being sick. There is no one to brew you a tea or to go and buy some groceries and stuff. In Poland we say : 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' - Co Cię nie zabiję, to Cię wzmocni. I don't really think that this flue is able to kill me, so now I'm going out to face this cruel sometimes life.

Cold as ice

When I had been studying geopolitics, I discovered how influential the weather is and how it has been impacting the societies from time immemorial. Iceland is a cold country when it comes to weather , maybe temperatures are not droping below -20 as it happens in Poland almost every winter but hey we don't have such a strong wind ,which makes you feel as if you were in Siberia. Not to mention the overwhelming darkness . Iceland is formidable. Beautiful and frigid at the same time. What about people then? I think some of them are cold as ice and as the weather here doesn't pamper you often its indeed very hard to break this ice which is rather thick than thin. I can tell I have friends in Iceland but the fact is none of them is Icelandic though. Let's just wait for the thaw.