My sister Emilia is coming to Paris
I had to tell you that my sister, Emília, and her daughter, Gudrun junior, are coming to visit me on the 12th April and are going to be here for almost five days. It´s going to be great and there are alot of things to show her. I will probably not show her the tourist attractions around here but she has visited them before, so I´ll be showing her the places that we go to. Gunnar, Nonni and Þorsteinn will be in Iceland at the time when Emilia arrives because of Nonni is getting his confirmation on the 16th of April in Iceland. I´ll be alone for some time, which is ok. I´ll just be studying hard, eating french cheese, jampon crue et baguette the whole time. Great ah!
At home and having the french flue
I slept and slept today trying to get the flue out of my system. Why isn´t it warm in Paris? I fled Iceland to get a bit warmer and all I get is "a cold Paris". The weather in Reykajvik is + 5C and is getting warmer every day. In Paris it´s - 1C to -2C .
Any way I am sitting here in my pyjamas in my living-room and thinking of a way to get better.
Here is a picture of Gunnar in Venice. He is so beautiful, isn´t he? Nonni, Þorsteinn, Gunnar and me drove to Croatia last year but we had to stop in Italie for one day because it was to much to drive to Croatia in only one day. We slept in Venice over a night and then drove south to a croatian island...a very romantic island and so beautiful.
Hvar búum við eiginlega?
Á myndinni til vinstri sjáið þið breiðgötuna "Avenue des Gobelins"
en þar var eitt sinn teppaverksmiðja sem hét einmitt "Gobelins" og gatan hefur borið nafn fyrirtækisinns alla tíð síðan. Myndin sýnir einnig leiðina að Place d´Italie torginu, þar er stór matvöruverslun sem við gerum matarinnkaupin. Svo á myndinni til hægri, hér að neðan, sjáið þið íbúðina okkar en hún er á 1. hæð og er fyrir ofan "grænu" búðina. Það hefur verið voðalega gott að búa þarna en við erum með þessa íbúð í eitt ár eða til endaðan júní. Gatan er sérstaklega fallegt á vorin, sumrin 
og byrjun hausts en þá sést varla í húsin fyrir trjám, þó að þau sjást varla á þessum vetrar myndum. Mjög rómantísk gata.
Á síðustu myndinni, hér að neðan, er Avenue des Gobelins í hina áttina. Ef farið er þessa leið endar maður á mjög frægri verslunargötu - Mouffetard götunni. Hún er aðalega fræg fyrir útimarkaði. Þar kaupum við osta, skinkur, kæfur og baguettin okkar þegar við viljum fá eitthvað verulega franskt eða beint frá frönsku sveitinni. En þessa leið förum við líka alltaf ef við förum á línuskautum niður að Notredam kirkjunni eða niður að Signubökkum. Sú leið tekur bara 15 mín. 
I picture from Paris
I just had to send a picture on the blogger; here I am in the Eiffel Tour in April last year. Svana visited me when I was studying french at Sorbonne.
Brokeback Mountain...
The movie was romantic...en verulega langdreginn...just a good love story...
some words for the day
Hi, We at Ave. Gobelins woke up pretty late today - but it´s Sunday, so it´s ok!
We are planning to go see the new movie by Ang Lee; Brokeback Mountain. But before, we have to eat and we aren´t very active at the moment so we are planning to go to McDonalds and grap some not so tasteful hamburgers. We haven´t eaten there for a while so Nonni and Þorsteinn are looking very much forward to eat there - they have been eating Icelandic "þorskur"(cabillaud á Francais) three times a week since they arrived from Iceland this x-mas so eating at Maci-dacki-donalds is quiet cool.
Yesterday we had some great visitors, Albert and Solla, came to visit us and ate some french delicates or gourmant! They are staying in Paris untill Wednesday. "Our Sigga" came as well and we had a fantastic time.
Mais alors, maintenent nous allons trés faim - abientot mon chéries.
Hej da men vi ses kannske i morgon...vi ska ga och ata hamburger...
Verið þið sæl öll og sjáumst brátt en við erum að fara borða hamborgara að hætti Bandaríkjamanna (sorry folks; this icelandic sentence is very formal, but without the influence of the english language. That is; not Americaniesed!)
Ykkar Addi
Finally found my password...typical!
Yes my friends,
Finally I´m able to write some poetic words or just the daily happenings on
the blogger.
I am not going to tell you all about what have been happening since I last put some words on the web, but I am doing great and there are some great times to come...
I celebrated my xx years on this earth on the 26 of January and had a fantastic day. The kids and Gunnar had cuisined a great dinner for me and I didn´t had to do anything accept studying, which was great!
We had invited Sigga, our great icelandic friend who is studying french at sorbonne, to dinner.
A great day to remember. My second birthday in Paris.
I do think,though, that I have to tell you that I have gone through some great times since September 2005. I started my first year at The American university of Paris in September 2005 and had a terrific start. But the first issue that I had to get accustomed to is the "parenthood" but I didn´t have great problems but there are always some that you have to deal with for sure! Today everything is going as planned before hand.
Secondly I had to get accustomed to the American University system and their way of doing and their way of thinking. I started to study an intensive english writing, grammar, linguistics and the culture of the english speaking world as well as divers cultures. The third is the club that I founded or started at
AUP, the Gay Straight Alliance,
"G.S alliance". There have been students that have tried to start a Gay club at the univ. but hasn´gone as planned. I have had some difficulties with the club BUT I am grown up to "not giving up", as most Icelanders are accustomed to.
I found my freshman semester great and I think that I will be doing greater further as time will pass.
For the time being I am studying more interesting curses - Philosophy, New Economy and Media, French, Math, The internet, English writing...all together it´s 19 credits and far more than the average - an icelandic way of doing things, right?
A great man, I know, told me that it´s not enough doing 100% - do 110%! Always do a bit more than you are capable of.
Turning to another issue.
Svana! thank you for the greatings on my birthday and do hope you and Niels are not going to have any problems moving to your new place in Kopavogur on the 6th of February , a great city that is known for it´s horrible roads. My parents are partly grown up there and I worked for the "bæjarvinnu Kópavogs" so I can make some comic statements about the "city", or not! The city is great and has alot of history - just go to the
"tourist information center" in Austurstræti, Reykajvik, and they will give you some information...at least you can be in contact with
Svana and
she´ll show you around.
She is great and very friendly and has an understanding in divers cultures -
So be in contact with her;
She´ll love to meet you (Kópavogur is in the suburbs of Reykjavik; takes only 10 minutes driving from down town Reykjavik. Every tourist drive through Kópavogur, arriving from the international airport in Keflavik: and has the biggest mal in Iceland;
Smáralind.)Have to stop here!
BUT I´ll update my blogger
and "give" you some of my thoughts.
Ykkar Addi
