Welcome to my Canadian world

I have a lot to do these days. Last Friday night me and Klaus came home from a week vacation in Mallorca. We had such a good time it was amazing! We lied on the beach, went on trips, drank a lot of fancy drinks and went to Aqualand!!! It was very nice to recharge the batteries like that before starting school again.

I am doing my final nursing practicum now. I just started at a new ward today since my nursing teacher in my other practicum (closed psychiatric ward) got hurt after a patient freaked out so she’s going to be away for months. I am now at an open psychiatric ward and I can’t say much about it since I only started today!

 I have decided to go to DTU (engineering school) after I finish nursing in June. I have attend an intro course since I didn’t take that many chemistry, math and physics classes in Junior High school but that’s going to be okay I think

But now I better start doing something!

This pictures says it all. How come we go to school for 4 years…get a UNIVERSITY degree…bachelor’s degree….and get shitty pay. What other 4 years long profession gets that kind of a treatment? And then people are surprised nurses leave their jobs and go on to do other things.

I am still though trying to figure out with myself if nursing is something for me or not. I guess I won’t really know until I have really worked as a nurse for some time.  I do really, really want to go into engineering. I have been looking into these two engineering programs at DTU in Denmark:

• Chemistry and bio engineering (kemi og bioteknologi) http://www.dtu.dk/Uddannelse/Diplomingenioer/Kemi_og_Bioteknologi.aspx 
• Medicine and technology engineering (Medicin og teknologi)
  http://www.dtu.dk/Uddannelse/Civilingenioer/Bacheloruddannelsen/Medicin_og_Teknologi.aspx

They sound REALLY interesting! I need something research and technology in my job but I still like stuff around the body and all that. Many people think that is exactly what I do NOT need (research and technology)…that I have to have people around me but jeez sometimes I just want to get as far as I can from all people! Sit outside in the nature….alone in the grass…down by the ocean…listen to the birds….with my dog…..ahhhh. Maybe I am just tired now when I write this?

Went to my grandmothers with my cousin and we went out for a coffee and cake! Really nice!! Amazing weather. We also took a drive down to the lighthouse in Akranes. Wish Klaus could have joined us. Oh I miss him but only about 8 days now!

Take care everyone!

I just wanted to dedicate this blog entry to my dear Klaus! There are only about 12 days until I see him! I can’t wait! And he and his family might even be coming to Iceland this Christmas!! That would be so great! Then our parents would finally meet each other. My aunt also really wants to meet this special boy that has made me so happy and I told her I would try and bring him around the holidays and visit her.

Apart from that I have just been working and visiting Heiðrún. We are going to go on a shopping spree next time we meet and go online and order off the internet some nice stuff because of the dollar being so low :p haha Now I just have to cross my fingers that the dollar keeps low until I have time to visit her again!

But yes…apart from that there’s not much I do. I feel things are pointless when Klaus is not here Like why should I hurry home from work if Klaus is not at home greeting me and stuff like that.
I am starting to read again though. I used to read so much when I was younger….now I know why!!!! I didn’t have Klaus!! I had to read about fantasy worlds and life myself into them to try and be happy but Klaus takes care of that when I am with him

But now it´s time to go to bed since I have work very early tomorrow :S
take care everyone!

Hey everyone, yes I am in Iceland now.  Work is great and I am learning a lot. I miss my Klaus so much though and I can’t wait to see him when I fly to Denmark on the 3rd of August. Only 16 days! It will also be so nice to spend the following days in Prague and enjoy being together after this month apart. Humm…yes I know it’s only been a month but I swear it feels like a lot longer! I am counting down the days…maybe that’s making it feel so long…?

Missed the flight to Iceland btw. Yeah….took the wrong train…it was early in the morning, I was sad to leave Klaus and very very tired after sleeping horribly over the night…or those hours I got so I went on the right tracks but jumped on the wrong train that didn’t stop ONE SINGLE stop until it was in Høje Taastrup; the exact other way to the airport!!!!! (35 min or so away from the central station and then the central station is about 20 min away from the airport!) So I had to wait for another train to the central station, got on that one and it was a slow s-train and I realized I was most likely not going to catch my flight.
When I finally got to the Central Station again I had to wait there also and that train was delayed (of course!) and then when I finally arrived at the airport there were tons of people and I went straight to a airport worker that I hoped would help me in front in the line at the airport (God knows I did stuff like that when I worked at the airport!!!) but no…not only did I spend precious time on waiting while he was listening to some woman that was asking about the most stupidest things (of course I felt that since I was in a lot of hurry but she was actually asking dumb questions). When I finally got to talk to him he didn’t help me one bit! People in those helping jobs that don’t have the will to help in them shouldn’t be allowed to work at places like this!!
So I became VERY unpopular when I just marched before everyone there standing in the line (I can’t believe I actually did it now) and straight up to the people in the front of the line and told them I was literally missing my flight as we spoke, I was only one person and if they could be so kind to let me in front of them. Thank god they were very understanding and let me past….the people behind them were some not so understanding and I heard one shout “oh we’re all missing our flight! We all want to get through this!” but I just ignored that and jumped to the counter, talked as fast as I could and found out I could still check in.
Then he saw I had a bag that needed to be checked in and he called Icelandair and then he said “since you have that bag we will just put you on the next flight to Iceland, okay?”. I was just so glad I could actually get any flight and that technically I hadn’t missed my flight that I said sure, I don’t care as long as it won’t cost me anything. He assured me it wouldn’t cost me anything and pointed me to the SAS service desk where I could change my ticket.
After waiting in line for a looooong time I found out things were that simple, the woman that serviced me was rude and judgemental and not helpful at all and just gave me the 9 degree on why I hadn’t gone on the other flight.  There I was…my flight getting ready to go into the air and I couldn’t get a new ticket!!!! I did not know what to do and on top of all my phone died, I had no coins and the ATM was broken so I could not take out any money! I swear at this moment I wanted to walk out and take the train back to the Central station and just call from home to the work in Iceland and say “I am sorry but I am not coming to work with you this summer as planned” – I  mean…I really wanted to because then I would also be able to be with Klaus all summer and I would also get a lot higher pay in Denmark than I was getting in Iceland!
But….I had told the work I was coming, they had made work plans depending on me and I just could NOT bail out so I went to 7/11 and bought Mountain dew to cheer me up since that always reminds me of Canada and you can’t get it (As far I as I know) anywhere else in Denmark. That way I got some money for phone…which did NOT last long, those machines just EAT the money like nothing, especially when you call another country. Mum then totally saved me, I just had to wait for Icelandair to open in Iceland since they are 2 hours later but she got a new ticket for me and I had to pay 700 danish kr for it. Well…at least I didn’t have to pay full price. Then my mum told me the woman that assisted her asked why she was calling and doing this for her daughter(me) when she(me) had reached the age of 23 years old! Oh I hate judgemental people like that!!! I bet she has never been with a dead phone, expensive pay phone that eats money like nothing and calling to another country that could take up to 20 min!! Why should I not ask someone that is in the same country as Icelandair to call them for me and save a lot of money? I know it’s far fetched to think you might actually be reading my blog but if pigs fly and you are here, I just want to say “Shame on you!!!”…I will let that be it…cause you are probably ashamed enough by now.

Well anyways…I finally got to Iceland and man I was tired and I wished sooo much I had NEVER decided to go in the first place. There had to be something wrong with me to go to a country where I got less in pay than in Denmark and I would spend all this time away from my dear Klaus…and Joey of course!

But now I am off to bed since I have a morning shift and I have to wake up early since it takes me over an hour to drive to work. Take care everyone!

Not that I approve smoking at all! I’d like to change it to “non-existent beer”…or something. It’s just a picture to prove my point! :p

You KNOW you are a nurse when:

• You believe that all bleeding stops … eventually.
• You find humor in other people’s stupidity.
• You believe that 90% of people are a poor excuse for protoplasm.
• Discussing dismemberment over a gourmet meal seems perfectly normal to you.
• Your idea of fine dining is anywhere you can sit down to eat.
• You get an almost irresistible urge to stand and wolf your food even in the nicest restaurants.
• You plan your dinner break whilst lavaging an overdose patient.
• Your diet consists of food that has gone through more processing than most computers.
• You believe chocolate is a food group.
• You refer to vegetables and are not talking about a food group.
• You have the bladder capacity of five people.
• Your idea of a good time is a cardiac arrest at shift change.
• You believe in aerial spraying of Prozac.
• You disbelieve 90% of what you are told and 75% of what you see.
• You have your weekends off planned for a year in advance.
• You encourage an obnoxious patient to sign a self discharge form so you don’t have to deal with them any longer.
• You believe that “shallow gene pool” should be a recognized diagnosis.
• You believe that the government should require a permit to reproduce.
• You believe that unspeakable evils will befall anyone who utters the phrase “Wow, it’s really quiet isn’t it”.
• You threaten to strangle anyone who even starts to say the “q” word when it is even remotely calm.
• You say to yourself “great veins” when looking at complete strangers at the grocery store.
• You have ever referred to someone’s death as a transfer to the “Eternal Care Unit”.
• You have ever wanted to hold a seminar entitled “Suicide … Doing It Right”.
• You feel that most suicide attempts should be given a free subscription to “Guns and Ammo” magazine.
• You have ever had a patient look you straight in the eye and say “I have no idea how that got stuck in there”.
• You have ever had to leave a patient’s room before you begin to laugh uncontrollably.
• Your favorite hallucinogen is exhaustion.
• You think that caffeine should be available in I/V form.
• You have ever restrained someone and it was not a sexual experience.
• You believe the waiting room should be equipped with a Valium fountain.
• You play poker by betting ectopics on ECG strips.
• You want the lab to perform a “dumb shit profile”.
• You have been exposed to so many X-rays that you consider radiation a form of birth control.
• You believe that waiting room time should be proportional to length of time from symptom onset.
• Your most common assessment question is “what changed tonight to make it an emergency after 6 hours / days / weeks / months / years)?”.
• You have ever had a patient control his seizures when offered some food.
• Your idea of gambling is an blood alcohol level pool instead of a football pool.
• You shock someone with an unrecognizable rhythm … until you get one you DO recognize.
• You believe a book entitled��’Suicide: Getting it Right the First Time’ will be your next project.
• You have ever referred to someone’s death as a ‘transfer to part 3 accomodation’.
• You call subcutaneous emphysema “Rice Krispies”.
• Your immune system is so well developed that it has been known to attack squirrels in the backyard.

The summer is here! Oh it has been wonderful here in Copenhagen these past few weeks. I can’t believe I am going to Iceland in about a month….to the COLD! I don’t want to! Oh now I totally regret having taken that job in Iceland. Not to mention how much I am going to miss Klaus! Oh man…I don’t know how I ever thought I was going to be able to be away from Klaus all this time. I just hope he will be able to come for a visit.I’m in a constant struggle with myself. It’s not fun. Most of the time I feel like I should have picked something else than nursing to study. People tell me I am going to be a great nurse and I even if I am not trying at all I don’t do bad in school so I should take that as a sign that nursing is what I am meant to be doing but still I feel like there’s something missing…I don’t feel the passion. I mean I have talked to girls in school that sometimes are like “oh cancer that is so fascinating! I can’t wait to work as a nurse at a cancer ward” – I don’t know if it is because I have worked at a cancer ward for over a year but all I can think is: ”oh my God are you kidding me! It is horrible to have to look upon people dying from Cancer and not being able to really do anything about it!!”.
I mean the system doesn’t allow much human touch regarding nursing….to little staff, stress, unsatisfied patients AND nurses. Sometimes at the end of the day you feel so…well I don’t know what the right word is, but you feel like you could have done 100 things better or differently or you are sad about things you couldn’t do. Of course there are days in between where you feel really good when you come home and you really feel you did a difference or helped someone. Those are really good days and make me feel I would want to be a nurse. Too bad those days don’t happen that often….

Actually I am far from being the only one at school that is feeling like this. Actually none of the girls I am friends with in school are 100% sure in wanting to become nurses.  Few of them also know some girls that graduated and just went on to do other things. Who also wants to do this job after almost 4 years in school and then get this low pay???
I have to say that I am worried about my final practicum. The 4 places out of like 40 that I would actually have any interest being place at are also the most popular ones; ER’s and paediatric wards. So the chances of me getting a final practicum at a ward that I will not have any interest in are pretty high! So I am very worried about all that. I mean how hard will it be to study when you are not slightly interested in what you are doing….well actually I know how that is already!

Oh watching TV there are pictures of Danish farms in the TV. Danish farms….especially in Jutland (Jylland, Jótlandi…wow I know it in 3 languages! hehe) are beautiful! I wouldn’t mind being a farmer here in Denmark. I love animals, I love physical work and I love the nature….and the nature in Jutland is amazing! It reminds me of Canada except not as flat. I love being in Jutland (where Klaus’s parents live) cause it’s so nice to be out of the city. The city is too crowded. I need some space! haha I am a farm girl and I always will be. I want to hear the birds sing and the stillness…lying in the grass staring up into the sky….ahhhhhhh

I bought this whitening thing for clothes the other day; never again. I wanted to refresh the whiteness on some pants I had and some underwear and then Klaus had some t-shirts. Well Klaus and I did everything it said on the package and first the lace on my ALL WHITE underwear became bright pink….don’t know why it became pink  but oh well….it actually didn’t look that bad so I wasn’t that upset about that…nothing else happened. 
When I then rinsed it afterwards the bright pink turned to purple and then finally disappeared! I looked at all the other clothes and NOTHING had happened. They were just like they had been before we started. Just bought this very nice motorcycle outfit! Klaus’s parents took us over the boarders to Germany and to a store where I was able to get the outfit for WAY cheaper than I would have gotten it here in Denmark. Klaus is really happy about it and thinks it looks really good on me. Now he really wants to buy new ones and I think he’s really regretting not allowing me to give him this nice bikers jacket for his birthday.

The 26th of May my good friend Carlos is finally coming to Copenhagen! He is bringing his friend with him and I hope we will have a good time together!  Klaus and I migth have a party around the time that he is here so that is a good timing!

Oh and last but not least…. Klaus and I won a one week stay in Mallorca at this REALLY nice hotel! I really wish we could just go now but sadly that is not possible of course since we are both in school. June, July and August Klaus would be able to but I am not able to since I am working in Iceland! (again…why did I take that job!) September I might be able to go…depending on a lot of things and after that the weather isn’t that nice in Mallorca so we shouldn’t go after that. So if we are not able to go in the start of September we will have to wait until April or May next year when we have Easter break.

So now I am thinking….going to Africa for 2 weeks with the nursing school (in September) and seeing everything down there in nursing perspective which sounds really interesting to me!….OR…..save up money for a motorcycle!!
Going to Africa would be amazing and has been my dream for a very long time. I could see where I might be able to really do a difference in the future. But it is only 2 weeks and cost insanely lot of money = 15.000 DKR (Everything included though).
On the other hand….the bike I will be able to use for more than 2 weeks! I could go on trips….I would have the freedom to just drive anywhere!
Yeah….we’ll see…Klaus bought a new lap top also. Got it for a very nice price and is very happy about it. I am always trying to convince him to hook up our computers and play some Warcraft. I am still hoping that one of these days we will have time to do it

But now it’s time to go to bed. Until next time…take care ya all!

Ég skrifa ekkert á íslensku þar sem það vill enginn frekar að ég sé að skrifa á íslensku….So until someone wants me to write specially in Icelandic I will only write in English!

Okay it’s been a while now since I blogged last time so here it comes!
So me and Klaus have been living together for a while now and it only gets better with every new day!

We have had 2 parties so far where we invited our friends over and had a really good time! I wish those of you that live abroad would have been able to come.
We are planning to have the next one in May after everyone has had their exams (I have mine in May and June!). Hopefully by then the weather will be nice enough to stay out on the deck here in our yard.
The Easter break was sooo nice!!! Just relaxing and enjoying the weather. We went on a picnic on the motorcycle….oh yes I forgot to mention that now the spring has come that Klaus picked up his bike from his parents place in Jylland (close to the German boarders) so now we can drive all over. It’s so nice to have the bike back because it’s so nice not to be depended on public transport…oh well at least the public transport here in Denmark is not as bad as in Ireland!
My friend Colette from Ireland went home after 3 months here in Denmark in the end of the Easter break. Me and Klaus went with her, her mum and her mum’s partner to Bakken (an amusement park in Lyngby…a suburb of Copenhagen). We went on few of the rides but the weather could have been much nicer than it was :S I just hope Colette had a nice time in Denmark…I at least know she felt a lot more respected here as nurse than in Ireland! Having been in Ireland I have to admit that I didn’t feel that but I totally believe it is like that and I also felt that nurses aren’t trusted to do as much in Ireland as they are here in Denmark.
Klaus and I have been playing Transport Tycoon Deluxe, SimCity3000 (ahhh classical games), Sims and hopefully Warcraft 2 or 3 in multiplayer game.
Then one of Klaus’s friends gave me Heroes 5 on a disk (I have bought all the other ones and I love them!) and I am really looking forward to try that one out.
I just planted a honeydew melon plant and a peppers plant in two pots I have here in the apartment. They are growing well in the sun and I can’t wait to see what the results are going to be!
I am buying a motorcycle outfit soon…ordering it from Germany since all the MC stuff here in Denmark is overpriced!! It’s a very nice leather jacket, leather pants and the right boots or shoes to go with it of course! I am also buying a new helmet. Slowly collecting stuff together for when I start owning and drive a bike myself next summer or so. Can’t wait!!

Joey is as cute as ever. Klaus was petting him the other day and when he had to go to the kitchen Joey just ran after him totally in love! And he didn´t stop running after him! He followed him everywhere he went…even into the bathroom! Lol

I have booked my flight to Iceland on Friday the 29^th of June (last possible day for an exam…just have to hope the fates be nice to me and put my exam on the 28^th or something cause it costed me like 1700 Danish kr more to book it on the Sunday and I have to start work the 1^st of July. I am btw working at a paediatrics ward in Iceland. Only reason why I chose to go to Iceland and work this summer (I haven’t been in Iceland over a summer since 2004) was to try out the paediatrics since I am close to finishing and I have to decide what I want…if nursing is even what I want!
I just discovered 3 TV-Shows that are really good! Battlestar Galactica, The Long Way Round and Ugly Betty.
Battlestar Galactica takes place…like the name suggests…in space and it is awesome! I suggest people check it out.
The Long Way Round is a documentary (in over 10 episodes if I remember right) about Ewan McGregors motorcycle trip around the world with his friend. I just ordered the DVD’s off Amazon and we have only seen the first few episodes but it is brilliant! You don’t have to like motorcycles to like that show….if you love traveling and hearing about new stuff….

Ugly Betty I bet many people know but if they don’t it’s a comedy about this girl from Brooklyn in the fashion world…that doesn’t fit in there. 

Snowpatrol…oh how I love that band! They are so good!
Stupid Gmail has been bothering me a lot these past few days. I had to send my teacher my exams project that I have been working on and when I come to school to meet up with like scheduled, she tells me she never got any email from me!
Yesterday…it happened again! I was suppose to meet up with her and talk about my project but when I came she says that again I hadn’t send her anything. I said…uhh yes I did? Then we were throwing back yes’s and no’s until I cursed the email, said I was 100% sure I had send it and didn’t understand what had happened but I would print the project out right away and we would have to reschedule the time. And…it turns out that my teacher is not the only one who hasn’t been getting my emails. I bet people think I am using it as a poor excuse (“oh you didn’t get it? Oh sorry it must have been my email…”) cause before this Gmail worked perfectly for me!

It’s funny…I keep having all these crazy and funny (others think) things happening to me because I am after all…ME! The clumsy Iris Bjorg that accidentally throws her house keys out with the trash and then has to dig down in the trash with people staring and wondering what the hell I am looking for. But when it finally comes to blogging about what I have been up to…I don’t remember much. I bet it’s because I just try to forget it right away :p
Going to apply to Snorri West Ontario next year. It is a program for young Icelanders where they go to Canada and meet Western-Icelanders and see what they have done for themselves and stay with an “Icelandic” family and stuff like that. I went on the Snorri West Manitoba program in 2002 so 5 years ago! That is amazing. Next year it will be 6 years. I miss my Manitoba…
Talking about Canada…! My FAMILY from CANADA is coming to Iceland in the summer! They are not my real family but who cares about blood when you feel like family? They feel like my family and therefore I call them family They are the family I stayed with when I was on the Snorri West Manitoba program and we have held contact ever since then and my mum and dad in Iceland have also gotten good friends with them.
My foster parents from Canada are both coming along with Tracy (“sister”) and her boyfriend. Along with them also comes Afi (grandfather in Icelandic) and Pat’s (foster mum) sister and her husband…I don’t think I am forgetting anyone?
So there is a lot to look forward to! They are coming to Iceland but some of them are also coming with us to Prague where my mum is graduating the 4^th of August. So I have gotten 3^rd-10^th of August off and Klaus is hoping to join us all but he will be working in Denmark over the summer but is going to try and visit me in Iceland.
Wow I have written an essay. And it has taken it’s time too! I better get back to the books…even if the weather outside is VERY tempting but since Klaus is working anyways…
I hope you are all good and take care everyone!
 

English version first…sidan kemur islenska utgafan!

Hey there everyone…finally it has not been that long since I wrote in here last time! Could this mean I am actually going to be better at blogging?!…I doubt it but we’ll see.

Klaus and me are moving in on Monday. We were hoping we could move in this Friday but evidentially they are cleaning the place during the weekend so…
We already picked some stuff we are going to buy in Ikea and I think our place is going to look really nice and cosy I will post pictures of our place as soon as I can (just keep on checking here ;)
I have been signed up on many profile sides through the past and I so very often forget to check them. To fix that problem I added them to the blog here so I remember to check them and update them I just hope that helps cause I have found very old msgs in my inboxes every time I finally remember to go….once up to 2 years old UPS!

I am also going to finish my application to go abroad in the fall soon since I have to give it in before the 1st of March. I have decided to put down Thailand and Canada as options and apply for both in case one of them becomes impossible for me to go to, I’ll at least have a backup.

But this is that for now. Take care you all
Iris Bjorg

 Sæl og blessuð!
Lyklaborðið hja mer er enn bilað þannig að eg get ekki gert kommurnar ofan a stafina. Alveg otrulegt. Þetta datt að visu i lag um daginn en það er dottið ut aftur. Oþolandi!
En það er annars það að fretta að eg og Klaus erum að fara að flytja inn a manudaginn. Við vorum buin að vonast til að fa ibuðina fyrir helgi en þeir þrifa vist um helgina sögðu þeir þannig að við verðum bara að vera goð og biða.
Við erum buin að fara i Ikea og kikja a ymislegt þar sem fatækir namsmenn hafa efni a og eg held að þetta eigi bara eftir að verða ansi kosi hja okkur :p Eg ætla að selja sumt af dotinu minu (eins og ofninn minn, sjonvarpsskapinn litla og jafnvel skrifborðið mitt… er þegar buin að selja stora burið hans Joey i gær en hann hefur ekkert þörf fyrir svona svakalega stort bur – Seldi það til rottueiganda sem var að fa skyndilega sendingu af mörgum rottum og vantaði stort bur….).
Þetta kemur allt i ljos þegar að við faum staðinn og sjaum hverju við komum fyrir þvi bæði viljum við hafa staðinn smekklegan með ekki of miklu af doti. Við viljum bæði hafa svona snyrtilegan stil yfir ibuðinni.
Eg set inn myndir um leið og allt er komið upp hja okkur og jafnvel fyrir og eftir myndir :p Það verður að sjalfsögðu undir “myndaalbuminu minu” herna a siðunni.

Annars er eg buin að skra mig a margar svona profile siður i gegnum arin…kiki misjanflega mikið a þær og hef verið að lenda i þvi þegar að eg loksins loga mig inn að það er upp i 2 ara gamall postur. Folk sem eg hef ekki svarað i svona langan tima og hafði kannski aður verið að spjalla við það segir að það se mjög gaman að heyra fra mer aftur þvi það hafi bara hreinlega haldið að eg væri dainn. En malið er bara það að eg hef ekki við að svara brefinunum sem eg fæ þvi sumt að þessu liði er bara að senda hinum og þessum post um bara ekki neitt. Og það kemur auðvitað alltaf nyjasta a toppinn þannig að þott eg svari þvi ekki fyrst þa þegar að eg loksins kem að  þvi er komin laaaangur timi. En eg er buin að skrifa a siðuna mina að folk skuli vita það að eg get ekki svarað undir eins. Eg hef lif…þott það mætti reyndar halda ad eg ætti það ekki :p hehhe en eg hef samband við folk sem eg þekkji i gegnum þessar siður og það eru þau sem eg vill fa post fra og svara undir eins.  En malið er að nuna er eg bara buin að setja það herna inn a blogg siðuna mina til að muna eftir að kikja  Vona að það virki.

Eg ætla mjög braðlega að klara lika umsokina mina til að fara erlendis i haust. Buin að akveða að eg skrifa Thailand/Canada sem umsoknarstað ef annað hvort verður ekki mögulegt sökum fjölda þattakenda (myndu taka aðra (ef eru) fram yfir mig þar sem eg hef þegar farið til Irlands en þeir myndu ekki gera það með Canada þar sem það er ekki fjöldatakmörkun a þvi og eg er lika að fara halfpartin a eigin vegum) eða peningaskorts (þvi það kostar um 250 þus að fara til Tælands en eg naði nu að safna þvi siðasta sumar þannig að nuna er bara að vera dugleg aftur :p).

Nu er bara að sja hvað gerist a næstu dögum
Kær kveðja fra Danmörku
Iris Bjorg

Hey everyone. It’s been a while since I wrote in here last time but I have been VERY busy! I am now officially a 3^rd year nursing student! J Yup it goes fast! I can’t believe that it is has actually been that long time but at the same time when I think back, I feel like I did some of those things ages ago!!
Now I just have to make up my mind what I want to do regarding the summer and the fall. I really can’t wait any longer. I have applied for a job in Iceland but I also have my 2 jobs here and in one of them I get a very high pay (in my opinion) or 170 Danish kr per hour, so it’s hard to let go of that one! We’ll see what I end up doing…Me and Klaus are moving in together after only few days! Monday next week we will hopefully be moving in His mum and dad were so nice they already gave us this amazing new microwave as a move in gift!
It will be nice to move into a bigger place since Klaus has kinda been living at my place now for a while. I am now used to him starting a conversation with me in the middle of the night about something totally out of the blue!…yes…he’s talking in his sleep every now and then. It’s really funny and he never remembers it! The funny thing is that he actually remembers to talk to me in English! Haha
We were at his parents place in Jylland (close to the German boarders for those who don’t know…but still in Denmark though!:) and I saw this cute baby picture of him that I will have to try and get my hands over a copy somehow so I can show you!! He doesn’t like pictures of himself (me neither!) but I’m sure he must have some of him somewhere in his stuff and when we move in together, it must come up to the surface Otherwise I will have to try and bribe him in exchange like “I cook dinner for few days if I get that picture”. The way to his heart is through the stomach so that should work hehe :p

I am happy that now I will hopefully FINALLY have time to write to all my poor penpals that today only hear from me every few months :S It’s shameful but I want to blame Klaus also! He’s too damn fun to be with that I forget everything around me and he’s too cute not to kiss and hold or to cook for or bake for and he’s too nice to me so when I finally have time to do something I forget the time in him…oh and well…part of it might also be Sims fault….*cough*.Talking about Sims! Now that is a brilliant game! Probably everyone knows about it…but for the ones that don’t! It’s from the same ones that did the Sim City, Sim Farm and all those games. Well this one has people and you can control them to do the most amazing things. First I was really serious in my family making my couple get a really good degree and THEN they had a family and everything went really well….then that got kinda old so now I am doing all kinds of fun things :p Making a horribly ugly old guy (Klaus got a shock when he saw the poor bugger! That’s how…well unlucky he was with his appearance thanks to me) and making him hook up with all these pretty girls and oddly enough the looks do not matter in this game! Then I am trying to see what you really can make happen in this game. It’s loads of fun but now I am getting to the point that I rather want to read a good book in bed…humm….I am getting old!

Talking about old…if some of you hadn’t noticed the author to this blog has lived through yet another year and turned 23 the 2^nd of January. Yup…it’s amazing that the first born child of Akranes of the year 1984 that was so tiny and week and in a bad shape and everyone thought would be a week kid forever would end up as a nursing student in Denmark. Geez…I should be so proud of myself :p hehehehhehehehehhe

Although I have been thinking…wouldn’t it be more fun to be a Bioengineer! Now that’s something that sounds REALLY interesting. My friend Linda is going to lend me some books from 1^st year so I can see what it is they study. She’s a bioengineer working on her Masters degree now.

Well I think it’s time to get up from this chair and do something. In the end I would like to recommend people to watch House MD (a medical show that is hilarious! Me and Klaus love it!) and Prison break of course! It’s getting really interesting now…oh well who am I kidding? It’s always been interesting!

Take care everyone and good luck in whatever you are doing.

Happy new year everyone! I am finally taking a little time on this Sunday to write a blog for those complaining I don’t write often enough (you know who you are!…hehe no no it’s okay that you tell me…in fact it’s just better cause that will make me write more often!). Well anyways…only 7 days gone of the new year and already have many things happened….good and bad. My amma (Icelandic => grandmother) in Canada died She had fought a battle with cancer for only few months It’s really hard to believe that she is gone and it still hasn’t sunken in.
She was an amazing woman and her kindness had no boundaries. I still remember how funny it was to meet her for the first time in Canada and she spoke this perfect Icelandic to me even if she’d never been there! She and Afi (Icelandic => Grandfather) were so welcoming to me and made me feel completely at home! God bless her memory and I miss her so much ……………I am now 23 years old. Yes time flies even if you don’t like it to. The good thing is though that I’m graduating next year if everything continues to go well. Yes, the same time next year I will be about to start my Bachelor’s project. I will also be 24 years old! but that’s another story…

So Christmas went pretty much just into relaxing, playing Sims, reading, visiting people and showing Klaus this and that. I got so many nice gifts and Klaus for example gave me this beautiful necklace and a nurse watch to hang on my uniform! It’s so beautiful! I also got a beautiful watch from mum and dad so I’m wondering if people are hinting I’m always late! hehe no no I had been complaining I needed a watch :p
I would like to thank EVERYONE for their nice gifts! And I hope they liked mine!
Me and Klaus then returned on the evening of the 3rd of January and we had to jump straight in everything again the following day!Now I’m back to my practicum…not much left and then I start my 3rd year in nursing! It’s hard to believe! I have to do this big and important lecture for the staff before I finish my practicum and I’m getting pretty worried about that actually but I hope it turns out well. Many people are asking me where I’m going to be in the summer and in the fall. Well to be honest I don’t know! I have had so many offers that I honestly don’t know what I want. You could say I totally forgot to think about what I wanted so now I’m taking some time to think what it is I’m aiming for. I am however now, about 99% sure that I am going to go into midwifery when I finish my Bs.n degree. Then I just have to find out where I will be working this summer (Denmark or Iceland) and where I will be in the fall (Thailand, Canada, Iceland, Denmark…). I guess time can only tell about all these things. The only reason I am considering Iceland is that I have the possibility to go to a children’s ward to work during the summer and also do my practicum. And that would of course be the best if I am going into midwifery since most of my patients so far have been old people!
But well I better get back to cleaning my place and then read in my books. I’ve been way too lazy over Christmas!Take care everyone!