Wednesday

Strange day:

Farewell party for Sandra's teacher

Kids ill

Packing up my things at work

Memorial service for Rúdolf

Guðný the cat sitter came for a visit

And then a really nice evening with my family!!!!

Tuesday

Counting down to the holidays!

The weather report for Alicante:

Saturday

Sunrise 06:39 (CEST)
Sunset 21:20 (CEST)

Max day: 24°C
Min night: 15°C
Visability: good

Sounds great!!

Monday

Today was spent at work - and organizing the trip to Spain! Bought lots of dog food for Birta to take with her to Grundarfjördur and sand and food for the cat - who will be looked after at Hringbraut. Lucky cat will have a sitter all to herself!

Got kids fed and and to bed at a reasonable hour.

Next on the list is a BBQ with Eiríkur's class tomorrow and a farewell for Sandra's teacher on Wednesday.

Nice Weekend!

Lovely weekend - including:

1. swimming
2. walking
3. travelling
4. good company
5. nice party at Rakels
6. etc

Last week at work as a full time employer at Atlantik Tours!

Til hamingju Rakel!!!

Our Rakel is graduating from MH today - making all her "mothers" very proud! Congratulations Rakel - you are such a wonderful and special girl!

2 - S's poetry reading!

Sandra and her classmates read poetry for their parents - and it was so lovely to be there. Sandra's poem was "Erla, góða Erla" and she read it beautufully of course! Thanx everyone!

Happy!

Rebekka and I got our school grades yesterday... and we were both very happy! I got 9 for my BEd thesis and Rebekka 8 out of her first year of Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík. To celebrate we went to the Pakistani restaurant Shalimar in centre of town and from there on to the movies. When we came home - late of course - we decided that poor Birta needed a walk so we drove to Geirsnef and walked around for a while. Nice evening.

I was up early this morning to work with the cruise ship Mona Lisa in Sundahöfn - we sent off 7 coaches to the Golden Circle. Then I went back to bed!

More about the first settlers....

This time the settlement of Reykjavik.

Enjoyed visiting the Landnámssýning (Settlement Exhibition) in centre of Reykjavík with my fellow tourguides. Lots of multimedia effects and a good insight into the life of the Vikings.

Also enjoyed the light refreshments afterwards.... Danke Dora!

Spring?

It is Tuesday May 23rd and snowing outside.

I rest my case.

BBQ and sleeping!

Another BBQ - this time with Ellen Klara and family! Spent most of the day sleeping, reading and relaxing. Then on to the pool and to the nice dinner and chat into the night!

Borgarnes

Just got back from Borgarnes with the guides. We visited the new theme exibition called "Landnámssýning" about the settlement of Iceland with special references to Egilssaga. Interesting to see and all in all a nice trip.


Spent last night with my friends Dora and Gummi and their kids. BBQ and red wine. Couldn't be better.

Eurovision

We spent the evening with my parents and Anna and her family. Kids enjoyed Eurovision and Sylvia Night!!! Great food at ususal, my dad is great with the BBQ. We drank some champagne to celebrate my BEd - and my further studies. All in all a good day.

Great Concert!

We enjoyed Eiríkur's concert tremendously. Skólahljómsveit Vesturbæjar is doing good things and conducter Lárus Grímsson was on good form in his bright Hawaiian tee-shirt! My favorite song tonight was from Mary Poppins. Yes - absolutely - they played: Supercalafridgelisticexpialadotious!

Eight!

Eirikur got an eight on his drumming test. He was sooooo pleased! And I am sooooo proud of him :o)

Next thing on the line is the concert and then we are done with all extra curricular activities for this school year. Mother the taxi drive can take a little break!

More drumming!

Eiríkur has his first drumming test today - he has been practicing hard in the past few days, great to hear him drumming away in his room. His sisters are not as pleased with the noise but they don't have a vote on this one.

Today is also the last rehearsal with his school band (Skólahljómsveit Vesturbæjar) and the spring concert is tomorrow afternoon followed by a little party for everyone involved. Sandra wants to join the band next year (she wants to play the flute or the clarinette) so there will be even more music at Hringbraut after the summer break!

Mothersday

Kids were wonderful yesterday and brought me breakfast in bed (cheerios, toast and orange juice - the tray decorated with flowers from the garden!) I feel so spoilt this month :o) I spent the day working on the computer asignment for Kennó - last one! - and the kids visited their cousins. The kids invited me out for dinner in the evening to Café Viktor and a nice time was had by all involved.

B.Ed. - M.Ed.

Just sent in the final project for my B.Ed degree and at the same time opened the envelope from Kennó with an admission letter for the M.Ed programme, specializing in the multicultural classroom... Sooo happy!

Spring Festival at Vesturbæjarskóli!

It was great to see things work out after the long planning process :) Me and the other classmum from Sandra's class organized the BBQ - 400 hotdogs! David got the role of the BBQ chef, Eiríkur was inside the dragon and Sandra showed African dances with friends from her class. Very busy people.

This is from todays paper (in Icelandic):

Hátíð haldin í Vesturbæjarskóla í blíðunni
Nemendur í Vesturbæjarskóla og foreldrar þeirra fóru í skrúðgöngu í góða veðrinu í dag í tilefni af Vorhátíð Vesturbæjarskóla. Lagt var af stað með söng og skrúðgöngu og gengið um miðbæinn. Skrúðgangan endaði svo við skólann þar sem börn og fullorðnir gæddu sér á pylsum og nutu veðursins. Eins og sjá má á myndinni bjuggu börnin til forláta dreka fyrir skrúðgönguna sem prýddur er björtum litum sumars.

Axel and Silja

I stole this picture from Erla's blog (sorry Erla, I did not ask for permission ....) - just had to because Anna's kids look great on it :) Lovely kids!

BBQ and meetings!

Nice BBQ at my parents last night. Sandra spent the day with her grandparents being nursed back to health with lots of TLC. Nasty cold but hopefully she will get over it quickly.

A meeting in the evening, parent-teacher association at Vesturbæjarskóli. Trust me to be voted into some type of a committee. I should not attend these things as I don't have much spare time but cannot say no to taking action. But I like the people who are already on this committee and I do like to be involved with the kids schools - so here we go again!

Pix from the Whale Watching Tour

One more quiz...

What shall I study next?

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I have no idea why I scored so high in mathematics!

Whale Watching!

Rebekka and I got the opportunity to go whale spotting after work yesterday with my mates from work. We spent 3 hours cruising Faxaflói but only three minke whales were spotted briefly. We, however, sailed passed Lundey (Puffin Island) and we saw thousands of puffins who just arrived .

Landscape

Dimmuborgir looking spooky!



Garðsárgil by Akureyri

Photos by AS - takk :o)

New week at work

Sooo enjoyed my weekend up north, lovely weather and good company. Perfect.

I have gathered strength for a new week at work - and to finish the last asignments for my school. Now I am counting days to the family holiday in Spain - I need to arrange for the kids passports this week and a place for my cat. Then we are good to go :o)

Weekend again???!!!

Hard to believe! Time is flying past me. Kids will be with David this weekend so I plan to get out of Reykjavík for a breath of fresh air and some rest.

See you all Monday :o)

Spring is here!

At least it isn't snowing at the moment. The other sure sign of spring is to have someone sitting at home studying for exams - and thank got that someone is Rebekka and not me :o) She has been doing so well and I am bursting of pride. Will stop now before I bore you all to death with tales of my wonderful children...

Pictures from work

We had some photos taken in April of the Atlantik staff. One photo is just the cruise department and the other one the whole company - dressed as we would do at home. So I of course brought my fleece and hiking boots - and the dog!

Thesis

I have handed in my thesis - four long years of evening studies are coming to an end. After May 23rd it will be available for everyone to read at the KHÍ library. I hope it does not contain too many errors...

Now I need to think of a way to celebrate the occasion :o) Cheers!

May first!

We spent the International Day of the Workers at home - working in the garden. We shifted a lot of stuff, leaves, branches of treas and unwanted plants. Sandra was my main helper in the garden, Rebekka studied hard for her maths' exam and Eirikur did some school work as well as practicing drums. We all worked hard!