Alone in Iceland
Holly, and anyone else who doesn't know, I am staying in Iceland for Christmas. I won't be back in Canada until July (I think the 9th). My dad is coming to visit me, he will be here this Friday and stay until January 1st.
I was in the Saturday newspaper. My friend told me about it and I was like "what? really?" completely forgetting why I would be in the newspaper. But last week I had an interview with these people who are organizing foreign students having Christmas dinner with an icelandic family. They asked me to come back later to have my picture taken, and that is the picture that is in the newspaper. And the article called "Einmanaleg jól á Íslandi" (lonely christmas in Iceland) is about this and they even quoted me, but they spelt my name wrong, Kelly Kaipaly, haha even though I even spelt it out for them, but oh well. I thought that was cool. I should see if I can scan it somewhere and post it, but if not I can give it to my dad to scan when he gets back in Canada. Though it is weird that I am the main piece for the article but they haven't even responded to me yet on whether I will be having dinner with an Icelandic family. It would be a neat experience for me and my dad to have an icelandic christmas dinner. It was funny though because my icelandic friends told me about me being in the newspaper and their mom's felt so bad for me that they offered that I could come over for dinner at their place some time during the holidays, and we joked that it would be funny if everyone felt bad and sent me christmas presents :) hehe that wouldn't be so bad. Speaking of presents, I got my package from my mom and step-dad yesterday. Was so excited, I really wanted to open it but feel I should save it for christmas morning.
People are beginning to leave now. Tisho left Monday but he will be back, but Kate and Nathan left today and it was kind of sad because they are not coming back to Iceland. By next weekend pretty much everyone will be gone. Will be sad, but at least I will have my dad here.
I was in the Saturday newspaper. My friend told me about it and I was like "what? really?" completely forgetting why I would be in the newspaper. But last week I had an interview with these people who are organizing foreign students having Christmas dinner with an icelandic family. They asked me to come back later to have my picture taken, and that is the picture that is in the newspaper. And the article called "Einmanaleg jól á Íslandi" (lonely christmas in Iceland) is about this and they even quoted me, but they spelt my name wrong, Kelly Kaipaly, haha even though I even spelt it out for them, but oh well. I thought that was cool. I should see if I can scan it somewhere and post it, but if not I can give it to my dad to scan when he gets back in Canada. Though it is weird that I am the main piece for the article but they haven't even responded to me yet on whether I will be having dinner with an Icelandic family. It would be a neat experience for me and my dad to have an icelandic christmas dinner. It was funny though because my icelandic friends told me about me being in the newspaper and their mom's felt so bad for me that they offered that I could come over for dinner at their place some time during the holidays, and we joked that it would be funny if everyone felt bad and sent me christmas presents :) hehe that wouldn't be so bad. Speaking of presents, I got my package from my mom and step-dad yesterday. Was so excited, I really wanted to open it but feel I should save it for christmas morning.
People are beginning to leave now. Tisho left Monday but he will be back, but Kate and Nathan left today and it was kind of sad because they are not coming back to Iceland. By next weekend pretty much everyone will be gone. Will be sad, but at least I will have my dad here.
posted by Kelly @ 9:28 PM
1 Comments:
At 8:47 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hi Kelly - I have to tell you, although you probably already know, that your dad is very excited about coming to visit you. Even though he's not sure how he is going to carry all the stuff you asked him to bring! It would be very interesting to experience Christmas in a different country. For years (over 40), my mother has made an Icelandic cake at Christmas. It is called Vinatara. It is one of the family's favourite. I was hoping to be able to give some to your dad before he left, but my mom hadn't finished her baking yet (what a moocher I am!). It has to sit for several days to let the liquid from the fruit (spiced prunes but better than prunes) soak into the cake batter. Have you seen this cake there? I'm looking forward to hearing how Christmas was and about the Icelandic traditions.
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