A list

10 remarkable and life changing things in my life in 2005


01 Oscar Josua started school – Both hard and very enjoyable, growing up a little to fast
02 Isabella started Kindergarten – wow changed from a baby to a toddler
03 Going back to school – My wisest decision in many years led to many great things
04 Isol deciding to go to school – made moving to Canada a reality
05 Deciding to move to Canada – This had been in the back of my mind for 3 years, finally did something to realize this dream
06 Buying my Eos 350 – led to new dimensions in my photography.
07 Einar and Obba (Isol´s grandparents) moving to a retirement home – good for them but no more Sunday dinners at Álfheimar.
08 My sister met her fiancé Gaui - another great person in all of our lives
09 My mother met and kept her goals this year this has a great impact in our lives
10 The Florida trip – We got to know Siggi, Isol´s granddad a lot better.
11 The trip to Vancouver Island - great trip and reassured us that this was the place to be.

I know these are 11 things but it has been a remarkable year.

Happy new year to everyone and may 2006 be a good year for all of you.

Photography

I am very excited about this New Year 2006. Aside from moving to Canada I am finishing school and the last term is solely focused on photography. I got accepted into the Photography studies at the Technical college of Reykjavik, which is a good thing as many apply and only 10 to 16 people get in.
I will at last start to learn something very challenging as I have no experience shooting film and a large part of the program is using film, shooting, developing and making prints the old fashioned way.
The only film shooting I have done is with a waterproof expendable camera, and you can see the results in the accompanying picture.

It´s official we are moving to Canada

Well it is official we are moving to Canada in the summer of 2006.
I got news before Christmas that I had been accepted at the Western Academy of Photography, starting fall 2006.
Isol got accepted to Uvic to study Spanish and Women studies and the Icelandic student loan committee accepted my application for student loans at WAP.
Everything is working out as we hoped and we are very happy.
We plan on leaving Iceland in June or July and traveling around Canada in the summer arriving in Victoria in August.
The things left to do are finding housing in Victoria and selling our apartment here in Iceland, also a school for Oskar and kindergarten for Isabella.
We went over to Vancouver Island last fall and fell in love with the place, the trip reassured us in the belief that Vancouver Island was right for us.