Finally the weekend is here.Basically I've been getting up at 5,leaving for seminary at 6 and then leaving school at 5:30 or 6 and getting home at 6:15 or 6:45 and getting into bed at 11 thanks to homework and then I can't finish it in order to get a wink of sleep so I usually finish all homework during lunch.
Because this has been going on,I've been needing to catch up on sleep. Anna being so fortunate doesn't have this problem and could go to Santa Cruz for the youth conference. Whatever,I've been there time and time over besides we weren't allowed on the rides last time in the 2007 conference.
Yesterday some relatives came over for dinner and I had great time,Lucy of course wouldn't get enough of the women guests. The food was delicious mmm Mashed Potatoes and Sole.
I'm currently studying Iceland.I'd show the flag butI don't know how to put pictures on my blog.So picture it like this,imagine a white cross put on its side with red painted inbetween and blue on the outside of this cross.Icoulda' just said reverse red and blue from the Norway flag but none of you might know what it looks like.
The only current words in the Icelandic language I know are Geyser(yes that word was originally Icelandic),Reykjavik(Smoky Bay) Foss(Waterfall) Jokull(Glacier)Fjorthur(Fjord) and Myvatn(Midge Lake).I'd know more but I lost that language book
Here are some well known facts of Iceland: Bjork came from there,Extremely volcanic,Lotsa' geysers,only gets 4 hours of sun in the winter and only 4 hours of darkness in the summer,It's greener than Greenland, and no snakes,and Reykajavik is the most northernly national capital of the world.
Iceland's anthem is called O Guth Vors Lands or God of Our Land
Icelandic
O guth vors lands! O lands vors guth
Ur solkerfum himanna hynta ther krans
Thinir herskanar,timanna safn Fyrir ther er einn dagur sem thusund ar
og thusund dagu,ei meir
eitt eilithar smablom meth titrand tar
sem tilbithur guth sinn og deyr
Islands thusund ar
Islands thusund ar
eitt eilithar smablom meth titrand tar
sem tilbidthur guth sinn og deyr
English
Oh god of our country! Our country's god
We worship thy name in its wonder sublime
The suns of the heavens are se in thy crown
By thy legions,the ages of time!
With thee is each day a thousand years
Each thousand years but a day
Eternity's flow'r with it's homage of tears
That reverently passes away
Iceland's thousand years
Iceland's thousand years
Eternity's flow'r with it's homage of tears
That reverently passes away
This is one of the few anthems I can think of that seems more like a hymn rather than something overtly patriotic.
I suppose you could call this obsession my answer to cousin Becca's obsession with Wales
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- Uberpsycho Tom
- I am so weird,so psychotic you'd think I was a hermit.Maybe I am,maybe I'm not but I'll tell you what I am certainly not a retard.I am a picky man with everything,books,food, and even video games. I like to freak my enemies out by making them think I'm out to kill them. TV and me don't mix if it wasn't for Simpsons,Family Guy, NCIS and the fact that my video game system needs it I'd throw that thing out. By the time you finish reading this I'll probably be cruising on my Trek bike. Might I add I'm a dinosaur. I barely know how to post this blog profile let alone program a computer. Books rock if they are good few fit my standards(Lemony Snicket,Seekers and Warriorcats fit a few). I also made up my own language.Currently working on a fun novel,Icelandic language and culture and getting muscles.I like all temperatures so long as it's below 120 F and above-20 F.My kinda afternoon is a hot afternoon sleeping in a hammock taking a siesta with lemonade.My evening is cold with a book,hot choclate in a rocking chair near a fire.I'll admit to being lifeless....for now.Say that to my face and you'll be literally lifeless heh heh heh
Video Game Currently Played
- Tomb Raider
- Diddy Kong Racing DS
3 comments:
uplck(Becca just posted her obsession first--katy has been the Wales leader around our house!) Hey, did you know that katy and I have been to Iceland twice? Well--we had long lay-overs at the airport. It is such a cool airport. The country is amazing from the air! there were wild flowers growing along the runway.It's pretty much empty--civilization along the coast and then not much anywhwere else.
I got a good view of Wales,looked so nice so unique Cardiff looked a bit like S.F. actually,like just above Castro with all the row houses,couldn't see the castle though.
Just to visit or on the way to Denmark?
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