For The Nations!

hem ham humphrey

well well babies and gents, its been a time.

First of all i got what i suppose to be my first home sickness, it came from a word - sundfólk. eyþór reads the sports page on mbl.is religiously and my eyes just landed on that word. i thought about how i have probably said that word less than 4 times in my life, i had never had much occasion to use it, but the point is i realised i wont have any particular reason to say that word in the anytime near future and put me in a reminiscent mood. but anyway things move along ever so swiftly!

its almost christmas! they've started decorating downtown and its so pretty! i cant wait for the christmas market to be ready! weee! i love christmas and eyþórs sisters and mom will be coming for a visit so that will be awesome!! if it would snow then it would be perfect :D but it will be great anyway ;)

i started german classes yesterday and i love it! its 3 hours every weekday (8:30-12:00 plus a half our break) very basic, i understand a lot already but its good to get to practise speaking :D

since ive been here autumn has come and gone, the trees were so pretty and the colors were beautiful! i kind of love this town

here are some piclatures of things and places!!

when we went to the temple to get sealed! it was such a wonderful day! we went with jenny and sebastian müller, (pssst sebastian served in the same mission as binni at the same time! woahwoahwoah )they were wonderful and jenny was so sweet and got me a bouquet! in the same style as my wedding flowers :D it was such a surprise and wonderful!!

this temple is so beautiful in person, its just not the same in pictures, over-cast and raining :p

wee!! this guy is pretty great :D

they loverly colors in our backyard a week or so ago, now the trees are all naked!! for shame

our building! its lovely and inside its really cool and old but in a nice and cosy way!!

this the across the street, i dont know why or how but our side is lovely and bright, while the other side is scary and ghost-inhabited-looking! what the what?!

our street! named after a dude named Günther he was probably really cool

this is our super awesome couch that we got from the lady across the hall, guess what makes it super awesome! its a sofa-bed-nappytime-sleep-a-majig!! and its what you'll have the fantastic luxury of conducting your repose upon if and when you should come and visit us!! arent you excited!? i know you are!

and last but not least this is the button at church for when you get the answer wrong in sunday school

until the times are upon us again!

Teehee

well well wellington,

time flies and all the jazz, our apartment is slowly becoming inhabitable, and for it to be so i've been putting together furniture for the last two weeks! A desk, tv table shelf thing, three chairs, a kitchen table and a wardrobe, still have the dining table to go but i'm almost there! alas there are still boxes and homeless things scattered around so no pictures yet :0

this past weekend has been great! Eyþór had a concert on saturday it went really well :D he was very pleased when it was over :p i'm super proud of him whenever he has a concert and i feel so lucky to be a part of it :p

here is a scan of the poster that was hung about the place!!


it's in german but it basically says "eyþór is so awesome at organ playing extravagance, come hear him play, you will be the luckiest duck"

and of course in the hustle and bustle of getting out the door with all the essentials we forgot our cameras!! so silly and no video either :9 but i assure you everyone was sockless by the end from the blowing off of them, which was unfortunate cuz the church was kinda cold :}

and so conference!! because of the timing of the concert we missed out on the saturday sessions and had a conference maraþon on sunday!! so awesome and uplifting! i love conference so much, it gives me the boost i need to adjust my life and get back on track, yay!

so a busy and wonderful and exhausting weekend :p
here are some pictures of the sad library
disclaimer: i didnt really look too close to the graffitti so if some if it is offensive, oopsie doopsie

right then, friends and foes! anticipate happiness!!

Here I am!!

hello beautiful friends and bystanders!!!

its been a shamefully long time :*(

SO! i was here in my new house with the new little laptop thing sitting on my new couch looking at my new desk and also out the window at my new country saying "bless bless" and "have a good day" to my new husband off to his new school and i thought to myself "its time for a new post!"

hm hm hrmumumph where to begin? well ill go backwards that seems to make most sense yes?

okay so ive been in germany for a little over a week and i have to say im quite pleased with the place. i came before to visit eyþór for 6 days but that doesnt really count. i like leipzig a lot, theres lots of transformations going on, a lot of the down town area is under construction or just being ripped down, so many of the buildings are so run down and falling apart, its kind of a shame some of them are so beautiful! like this super old library down the road, boarded up, nature having at it and of course covered in graffiti, made me so sad! but i suppose priorities are else where. i really like the downtown area, its so cozy and comfortable but still bustley and city like. when we were walking about down town one day we happened upon Auerbachs Keller! i was so surprised and it made me giggle! i didnt really recognise it until i saw a statue of mephisto and faust it was soooo nerdularly cool! so much history all around, i also saw a statue while wandering around of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (the dude who eyþór's school was founded by, worked and played a lot in leipzig :p) okay so this statue was erected for his contribution to music, especially in leipzig in 1892 but was destroyed by nazis in 1936 because he was jewish! only in 2008 was the statue rebuilt! can you believe it! they changed the name of the school and everything, so crazy but so cool that the history is everywhere, its also pretty crazy to me that things are STILL trying to get back to "normal" more than 60 years after the end of that war, i suppose its hard to recover from such a magnitude of destruction, i mean centuries of wars!

miriam should like that little tangent :D

moving was difficult and stress filled! but we got it done, the worst thing is though that i left the gift list in iceland in a box i asked eyþórs sister to bring at christmas! totally spaced that it was in there! so no thank you cards until christmas i suppose! looser! ill just have to be rude :p

the wedding itself was so wonderful and perfect and just exactly what i wanted! teehee im a lucky girl!! for our honeymoon we went all the way around iceland, it was so fun and beautiful im so glad i got to see those places before we left for a long time, i loved seeing the north and the beautiful and sleepy valleys! did you know there's a REAL forest that grew by itself out of the ground?! its not just lava and glaciers you know! i love iceland! but im so happy to be here in leipzig and grateful!!

so friends and bystanders as usual this probably made a whole heap load of nonsense but there you go

im so happy! :D

next time ill write about the apartment and ill post piccies but i need my big computer which comes tomorrow!