Tuesday, September 8, 2009
20 Days, I Think?
Okay, last Monday was just a bad day. But after posting that, I talked to my old youth minister, Chris, and that helped a lot. I also talked to my family, but not for very long. And my AFS contact lady, Una Þora, I think is how you spell it, came over and she, my host parents, and I talked about some basic stuff, like how I need to get involved in school and things after school, and how she´d hosted an exchange student from Italy and he just said "that´s not how we do things in Italy" if she tried to get him involved in something, and she thought that was very rude. If anything it´s been the opposite for me. I´ve tried to get involved in things at school and have just been told that there really isn´t anything that´s associated with the school. But Bolungarvik has a really good music school, apparently, so I may try piano lessons. And I have made some friends in the past week. Sorry Lennart, that post was before I knew we were going to the same school, lol. Unfortunately, I´m really bad at remembering names, so the only names I can remember of the people I´ve met are Maggi, Lennart, Anita, and Lilia. I think all of those are spelled right. Honestly, I really do feel like I could make it through the whole 10 months if I really wanted to. My host family and Una think I´m lonely or homesick, but I´m neither. I just think I´ve realized that I, along with some of my friends back home, fantasize about seeing the world and "freedom", but really if you travel anywhere, you realize that all you really want is right back where you came from. Does that make any sense? I´m not very good with words. Especially not now that I´ve been surrounded by people speaking Icelandic for a few weeks. Well, I really don´t know what else to say. Oh, my cell phone has a camera and a place to plug in a computer cord, so I´m going to see if I can get the few pictures I´ve taken with my phone up on my blog. There aren´t many, just a couple from the garden by the old boarding school we went to on a class trip last Thursday and Friday and two I took out my bedroom window where you can just see some white blobs on the mountain that are sheep. I think that´s it for now. Bæ! Bless!
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Rebekah,
ReplyDeleteI love reading your updates. I'm glad you're feeling better after that last post. I've been praying for you and your trip, and honestly, feeling pretty envious, depressing posts notwithstanding. :) I hope you continue to look at the trip as the adventure and opportunity that it is, and know that often neither of those things are very fun while you're in them. I hope you can post some pics, I'd love to see them, especially the sheep blobs.
Do me a favor and learn to say something totally ridiculous in Icelandic so you can teach it to me when you get home. :)
I'll keep praying! Have a great day!
Josh Hill
stay!!! stay!!!! stay!!! stay!! stay!!! stay !!! stay !!!
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