whooo... finally..
Wow. the apartment is awsome. Its very new. Not a scratch on the parket. Cute little back yard.
Its perfect.
Came around 7pm yesterday. Inga and I sat in the back yard with white wine and talked and talked. Siggi came around 10. We had a pizza and then biked down town and went to a techno party.
By the way... biked down town.. did anyone notice that... I biked ;) I love it!! took us 30 minutes..
Met a loads of Icelandic people in that party cause it was an Icelandic DJ. ehhh.. wish it would rather have been many of the cute danish guys....
well. Im off to unpack. then I might go bike around the area ;)
Polly
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
3 days before departure
Shit how time passes by fast.
Its already my last day of work.
Budir has been special. I have hated and loved it at the same time.
Love the hotel and my work. Love the nature around and how close it is to my family. Only 30 minutes drive and Im at my grandmas and 40 minutes from my farm.
Love the fact of not living in Reykjavík and just coming there for an occasional party and meeting with friends and family.
And my Budir guys. Kristjana, Ulli, Jonni, Ási, Pétur, Emmi, Omel, Marta, Darri, Agnes and the rest of the crew.
Spending so much time with the same people kinda makes you feel like a family.
Family can fight and get enoyjed by each other but still they love each other and get along the next day. Thats so what Its been like.
Love you guys and cant wait to see you again...
But it is so time to leave. Wow. Love the countryside but its enough. I need some cafés, clubs, clothing stores, public transportation and last but not least more selection of cute guys. ;)
whooo,.. Im so excited !!!
Polly
Monday, September 22, 2008
Last work days
I have to admit, it is kinda hard to keep the attention on the work when I know Im about to leave in 4 days.
My last day at work is tomorrow. I should be doing so much more preparation for them, but my mind is already in Denmark :)
Ahh. cant wait.
I have been informed that I am going to a party as soon as I arrive. Fun fun fun fun... Im definitely up for a party.
I put in some pics here on the side of the apartment I am about to live in for the next year.
Ive been wondering though what to work with.
I am for sure not gonna work in a lobby of a hotel and not as a server.
Im tired of that kind of jobs for now.
It would be perfect to get a position in marketing for a nice hotel. I really hope I get something of that kind.
I think Im going to wait for that type of a job, and in the mean time, I´ll work in a cloth store or something. Just to get my bills paid.
I also want to study some more. Im hoping i can find maybe a night school for marketing courses.
I know allot of marketing both from school and work, but I want to learn more. So that I dont walk into a job situation and not know what to do.
Laters..
Thursday, September 18, 2008
preparation
Im trying to get myself ready to move. There is just so much going on that little time is left.
Hotel Budir celebrated its birthday last weekend. All the people that stay with us often came as well as all the people from the surrounding countryside and all the former staff.
It was so much fun. Everyone go so wasted listening to the different bands playing and dancing and drinking all the free alcohol.
IT was such a great time, I want to turn around the time and do it all again.
After the weekend it was the west norden travel conference and was I there representing my beautiful hotel as well as the other hotels around the countryside. http://icelandnaturebreak.is
Such a great project and I might present it also in Copenhagen in the beginning of October.
Now I should go and start pack my stuff together so that I can move, but Im just to lazy. Its so comfortable just sitting at my moms house doing basically nothing.
Hercules is leaving me. My causin Axel is going to take care of him for a year or so while I get myself settled in Copenhagen.
Its so hard to leave him. My little baby boy.. boohoo...
Laters
Polly
Hotel Budir celebrated its birthday last weekend. All the people that stay with us often came as well as all the people from the surrounding countryside and all the former staff.
It was so much fun. Everyone go so wasted listening to the different bands playing and dancing and drinking all the free alcohol.
IT was such a great time, I want to turn around the time and do it all again.
After the weekend it was the west norden travel conference and was I there representing my beautiful hotel as well as the other hotels around the countryside. http://icelandnaturebreak.is
Such a great project and I might present it also in Copenhagen in the beginning of October.
Now I should go and start pack my stuff together so that I can move, but Im just to lazy. Its so comfortable just sitting at my moms house doing basically nothing.
Hercules is leaving me. My causin Axel is going to take care of him for a year or so while I get myself settled in Copenhagen.
Its so hard to leave him. My little baby boy.. boohoo...
Laters
Polly
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Sheep gathering
17 days before I leave.
time is flying.
Decided to make time pass a little faster the last weekend and went to 'göngur' Sheep gathering i think it would be called in english
Left Búðir Wednsday night to go to Neðri Núpur, up north from here to where my moms partner Nilli is from.
8 am Thursday morning we met up with 20 other people and we started going up on the mountains on horses.
Many beers and cognac went into peoples system on the way, and I blame the amazing weather we got.
When we reached up to the cabin on the top of the mountain, 8 hours later, more than 1 seemed to not remember their name anymore ..
By the end,the loose horses run away, I followed with 2 others while the rest of the mend where sitting next to a ditch drinking some more. behind me was a man barely sitting on his horse and holding another on in his right hand. somehow I managed to loose the poor drunk man while I chased after few of the horses. I got all panicky when I reached the cabin. But he was picked up on the way.
One of the man with us told me a sentence I just love. We are sitting there in the grass all of us, each holding a horse or 2. A bottle of cognac is passing between people as well as the traditional nose tobacco .
This is something we have been doing for over 1000 years.
I felt so proud.. Not everyone has the chance to do something their forefathers have been doing for a century.
During the evening at the cabin, everyone had some trout for dinner that had been fished up from the lake up there. Drank beers, whiskey and more cognac, and sang with the harmonikka and guitar.
The following day, most of the people left at 7 am and walked down gathering all the sheeps on the way.
My job in all that is to bring all the horses that the people came up on, back down.
That is the hardest riding challenge I have ever done.
We go on very fast and most of the time on trot down the mountain, the surface is either watery mud or rocks and all the horses go very fast.
I almost had a bad accident on the way down where my horse started loosing his feet in this hill I was going up. Me being so scared of height followed my instinct and jumped off him, then I see after him falling down the hill.
If I handt jumped off so fast, I would have fallen with him.
He came out of it ok though. Strong animals those horses.
The next day is much easier, but then we just need to bring all those sheeps to where they are sorted and each sheep owner gets their sheeps.
I put below some video of my dog. He was so funny trying to be a sheepdog.
Polly
time is flying.
Decided to make time pass a little faster the last weekend and went to 'göngur' Sheep gathering i think it would be called in english
Left Búðir Wednsday night to go to Neðri Núpur, up north from here to where my moms partner Nilli is from.
8 am Thursday morning we met up with 20 other people and we started going up on the mountains on horses.
Many beers and cognac went into peoples system on the way, and I blame the amazing weather we got.
When we reached up to the cabin on the top of the mountain, 8 hours later, more than 1 seemed to not remember their name anymore ..
By the end,the loose horses run away, I followed with 2 others while the rest of the mend where sitting next to a ditch drinking some more. behind me was a man barely sitting on his horse and holding another on in his right hand. somehow I managed to loose the poor drunk man while I chased after few of the horses. I got all panicky when I reached the cabin. But he was picked up on the way.
One of the man with us told me a sentence I just love. We are sitting there in the grass all of us, each holding a horse or 2. A bottle of cognac is passing between people as well as the traditional nose tobacco .
This is something we have been doing for over 1000 years.
I felt so proud.. Not everyone has the chance to do something their forefathers have been doing for a century.
During the evening at the cabin, everyone had some trout for dinner that had been fished up from the lake up there. Drank beers, whiskey and more cognac, and sang with the harmonikka and guitar.
The following day, most of the people left at 7 am and walked down gathering all the sheeps on the way.
My job in all that is to bring all the horses that the people came up on, back down.
That is the hardest riding challenge I have ever done.
We go on very fast and most of the time on trot down the mountain, the surface is either watery mud or rocks and all the horses go very fast.
I almost had a bad accident on the way down where my horse started loosing his feet in this hill I was going up. Me being so scared of height followed my instinct and jumped off him, then I see after him falling down the hill.
If I handt jumped off so fast, I would have fallen with him.
He came out of it ok though. Strong animals those horses.
The next day is much easier, but then we just need to bring all those sheeps to where they are sorted and each sheep owner gets their sheeps.
I put below some video of my dog. He was so funny trying to be a sheepdog.
Polly
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