Sigur Rós.....

Just have to say that the concert was amazing. Has to be the best concert I´ve ever been to. The place was packed. Luckily the venue was reasonably small, I think I heard it fits 5000 people. I took pictures but don´t think they turned out very well, but hopefully some of the pictures my friends took came out alright. Sigur Rós said that they were really nervous playing because they haven´t played in Iceland in about 3 years, so I was really lucky that they played while I was here. I felt complete in the concert, since they were one of the major inspirations for coming to Iceland, and Jon introduced them to me by playing their song Popplagið from the ( ) album over 2 years ago, and they played that song as a finale at the concert. Was phenomenal...

Exam Crunch

So it´s coming down the end of the semester. Weird to think it is almost over and a lot of the people I have been living with and friends I have made will go back to their homes. I don´t know if I will ever see them again, but I do hope that I will.

So for the whole semester, all the work that actually counts for marks is concentrated into next week, but I don´t think it should be so bad. At least I am trying not to get too stressed out about it. It will all get done and it will all work out, "þetta réddast!"

ok, I finally found another (better?) photo page, so I will add that to my list. Flickr ended up not being good at all cause it couldn´t even hold many photos on it. It will take a while to get all my new photos on the site, so be patient, but I do have pictures from the Snæfellsness trip up, which is a collaboration of pictures from my travelling buddies Hannes, long-haired Christian, other Christian and Anna (just so you know I did not take the pictures, but there are two that are mine before my camera died).

It´s girls´ night part two tonight. Might go to the that, but first Becca and I are going to the art store to buy some finger-paint and have some fun and a break from school. I need more colour and excitement in my room. Thinking of buying some christmas lights from the flea market for my room. Then my room will be BRIGHT and HAPPY during the dark days of winter.

Seeing Sigur Rós this Sunday. Should be good. Long bus ride to a place I´ve never been but have the slightest of vague ideas of where it is. Fun times :)

I need lessons on improving my memory. Was looking on the internet for suggestions and it is the same as the techniques they try to teach you in school, but some reason you forget anyway. Needs to be a way of life. But my memory sometimes scares me. I forget certain things very easily, or some things just don´t occur to me and then the whole learning aspect needs a lot of memory work. Same with languages. I think I would be better at learning languages if I could just remember everything. I also wouldn´t seem to be so stupid sometimes if I could remember details. I was watching a movie last night called Centre Stage and took me a while to actually recognize characters, because some of them looked alike and others I didn´t remember where they came from, they seemed to just pop out of nowhere. It is kind of embarrassing if you have to ask someone constantly "who is that?". Being isolated and on my own has really helped to bring light to my limitations and perhaps weaknesses, but still haven´t found my strengths... I have to have them, just not sure what they are yet.

What? Less than 7 hours of sunlight? Less each day...

Not much new is happening with me right now. Been researching for a paper for my Oceania class. Having difficulty finding good topics so might have to change topics, though I think it is a good one. Was going to talk about how the cultures in Melanesia have changed of the years, looking specifically and which Western technologies and ideas have been accepted easily and which have caused much conflict with traditional beliefs. But they have very limited resources in the library so have to dig through internet sources.

I have created a new pictures site. I am trying Flickr out, see how well it works. Tell me which one you like better. I might keep looking for a site which is easily to upload pictures for at mass quantities so I can put all my pictures on it, but for now they will be divided.

The days are getting shorter. Sun is up around 10am and it is dark by 5pm though Monday it felt like the sun never got to it´s full heightness and just started going back down around 1pm. It really isn´t that bad, we still get some sunlight (for the time being) but it is more that it disorients you for your routine schedule throughout the day, like eating times, sleeping times, and how long to do homework and study for. Tuesday I felt like I was running out of time to do things, didn´t think I would make it to the grocery store, but then realised it was only 3pm. Strange how sensitive our senses are to daylight and not just with sight.

The weather has been schizophrenic lately. Was cloudy, but warming up (about 2°C) most of the ice on the streets has been melting, then yesterday was nice and sunny and bright. Today was cold, wet and windy, and snowed for a bit, but in the evening (around 4pm) there was some sun, and blue sky peeping behind purple-blue clouds, then over-cast with light rain. Who knows what it will be like tomorrow.

We had a chocolate fest this evening to cheer everyone up from the some what gloomy weather. I bought some chocolate fondue for girls´ night, which was suppose to be on Saturday but most people felt tired and lazy and not up for it (and girls from up stairs ended up having their own on the 4th floor with chocolate mint browns, caramel corn and Sex and the City episodes). Anyway, I still had this fondue so, said, why not use it. We cut up some apples, bananas and strawberries and had some yummy chocolatey goodness. Then Tom made some deep-fried donuts (ended up being more like beaver tails, though I have never had a beaver tail, except for these things Tom cooked), covered in sugar and cinnamon.. really tastey.

I still need to go out and get some pictures of the northern lights. I have seen them a few times, but it has always been cold, wasn´t really prepared for walking to a place away from street lights so I could get a good picture. But one of these days I will. I have to. So you can look forward to that.

Out for now.