Posts Tagged ‘Iceland’

7
Nov

Here is more

   Posted by: Ella Jóna    in Uncategorized

Well I have my day of at work but I work 90% and do have every other friday off.  That is very nice to bee able to do something else than work all days.  Einar Trausti just came home from school and Maríanna is in music class learning musicology (got it from the dictionary), I am writing this and looking outsice the window at the glacer Langjökull, as the picture shows.

Everything is gray the wether, the earth, the mood in the community (well that’s rather black), many people is in big financial trouble after the breakdown.  Some of my friends have lost their job, and some have lost their savings, but we just have to look at the bright side we didn’t loose the healt or each other.  Icelanders are fighters and rather optimistic so I think we will get through this like everything else.  Now it is cool to be a teacher or a nurce at the hospital but 3 months ago it was rather lame.  People goes back to the basics in stead of living like a king.

I am now a member of Facebook and that is a whole world of old friends, I meet some old friends from Niles, Michigan there and old school friends from Laugarvatn.  Meet you there :-)

More sometimes later.

Love Ella Jona

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5
Nov

News from the Icelandic bankruptcy

   Posted by: Ella Jóna    in Uncategorized

Hi everyone

Well in spite of what you have heard in the news, we are all fine here in Tungufell.  We are not broke, I still have my job and we didn’t loose any money on the big bankruptcy here in Iceland.  All the banks exept one is now in the ownerchip of the government.  Oh well little Iceland was trying to bee sooo big!!

We still had to change some plans because of the situation, but we were supposed to be flying out to Germany tomorrow with the company I work with, but the trip was postponed .  We are going in end of March instead. 

Maríanna is growing up and is having her confirmation in end of May.  The ceremony is going to be here in the little church in Tungufell but I still don’t know where the rest is going to be.

Einar Trausti is getting 10 years old in December, whow things happend fast.

Well I don’t have more time now I write more later.

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