Christmas Holiday

Hello Everyone,

I had great holiday at home with my friends and family.

I went home to Canada for 10 days, then the family went to Cuba for 7 days, and then I was home again for 3 more days.

Being home in Canada was great. I saw friends, spent time with family, and did Canadian-type things. Had Tim Hortons and Wendys, and good snacks that I can't get here in Iceland.

I really had a great time seeing people that I hadn't seen in months. Spent time with Jen and Al and the kids. Went to Halifax and had a pre-Christmas with Carl and Meggie and Pumpkin. We ate at Chives and it was great. I recommend it to people to check it out, its on Barrington.

I went to the family Christmas party and it was nice to see everyone and share all of my Icelandic adventures with family. There were lots of questions about living here.

Mom, Dad, Nick and I went to Cuba over Christmas. It was great to spend Christmas there. It wasnt very Christmas-y but it was great to be South, in the Sand and Sun and warmth. It was beautiful when we were there. 27 degrees the entire time that we were there and sunny. It had rained for days before we arrived but not a drop once we arrived. Cayo Coco was beautiful and the beach was great. I recommend the Melia Cayo Coco it is definately a great resort the staff was great. Nick and I made good friends with the gardener (Rolando) he was great and made us palm hats and bracelets and lots of stuff to bring back. Dad made friends with one of the animation staff and he would holler questions to dad when dad was unable to hear what he was saying. It was hilarious!!! We were sad to leave.

When we got back I only had 1.5 full days until I had to leave to come back to Iceland. I went to visit Jen and give her her present at Frenchys. It was nice to see her too.

I went to visit Nancy on New Years Day and mom and nick and I also went to see Sherlock Holmes. It was pretty good.

On saturday I went to the airport to head back here to Iceland. FLIGHT CANCELLED!!

I met up with one of my professors to chat about thesis and school, etc. It was great to chat with him. He's a cool guy!

I finally got out of halifax on sunday morning but had to wait in the Boston airport for like 14 hours. It was okay though because there was free wireless thanks to Google. I got to Iceland late but still made it to the domestic airport in time for my flight to Isafjordur.

I am here now...in class...back to the grind!

I will try and post on a semi-regular basis now that I am back.

Peace.

In class...

This week we have a professor that was supposed to be next week. All that I can say is that I am glad that we dont have him next week or I just wouldnt come to class.

We have several assignments that are being given to us as well that none of us have any idea how to do...if we do know how to do it like we think it will talk 6000 hours!

Its 1140 am now and has just gotten light out in the last 10 minutes. Good times! It will be dark again in 3 hours!!

Well better pay attention now....or just go online an search for random things...who knows!

Outta here in 7 days!!!

Home in 10 days!!!

Almost Christmas Time

The days are going by so fast...its so soon that I get to go home!!

8 days until I leave isafjordur to go to reykjavik...should be fun, im going to go eat at subway ( i miss subway a lot) and then we are going on an excursion to see some icelandic sites in the south.

10 days until Boston for the night...well really like 12 hours but it should be a fun 12 hours the hotel has a pool and there is a mall and theatre right by the hotel.

11 days until halifax and kentville...we arrive in the morning and I am really excited to see the family and friends...and to get home and see the doggies!!

Like 3 weeks until CUBA...sun!!!!

Im watching Home Alone, the original one...it makes it seem more Christmasy...tonight I aim to get my paper done so that I dont have to work on it this week and I can hopefully get my other assignments done so that I can just have fun until I leave for home!!

See everyone soon!!

Peace,

Josh

:)

Friday the 13th

This day for a long time has been something of a mystery to me.

People always talk about how unlucky a day it is.

However, I was born on a Friday the 13th. On this "unlucky" day you were all blessed with my presence from then onward.

Little did you know how lucky you all actually were on that Friday, July 13th.

Hey everyone,

Hope your Friday's weren't too unlucky.

Peace,

Josh

!!!!!!!! 31 Days Until I leave for Christmas !!!!!!!!!!

Sunnudagur

Hey Everybody,

Just before we start so that you know Sunnudagur is Sunday.

I have been leanring some fun icelandic word and saying that I am going to try out on all of you when I get home.

I am coming home on the 12th of December I cant wait. I will be home until the 2nd of January but we are going to Cuba from the 22-29th of December. I cant wait for that either. I cant wait for sun, swimming and laying on the beach. I want to do excursions and stuff to but we just dont get any sun here in Iceland so it will be great just to get sun. I joke with people that im going to come back after christmas break and be really really dark with a tan...this however is not a joke I will be so dark people will not recognize me haha.

This weekend in Isafjordur was kind of a winter festival. There were people selling things in all the stores and streets. There was also people singing in the streets and the stores and there was even a dance troupe that was dancing to michael jackson throughout the streets. I was saddened in that there was supposed to be Icelandic treats and te and kaffi but we could not find it anywhere.

Oh well, Im going to be really productive today that is my promise to myself....after a few episodes of family guy. ;)

Talk to you all again soon,

Josh

Hello Everyone!

Hello,

Sorry I have not been good at posting to this blog. I will try and be better. Our last course was just a mess so I had all that I could do to deal with that.

It is now dark here when I get up at 8, I walk to school in the dark, and then it is dark again by 4 or 5 in the afternoon. That makes me sad.

I am really looking forward to going south at Christmas. We are booking the resort tonight. YAY!!! Warm weather, sun, and swimming.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone at home! Let do lots of fun things!

I'll post again soon!

Peace,

Josh