A 26 Parisian living in Reykjavík, Iceland, I write about rites of passage, the shift from a bored student to a self-reliant adult. The struggles involved in finding a place to live, carving a future, meeting people, friendship upheavals and job distresses. But first of all my moving in Iceland was not due to a song, an artist, or a trend as it seems common around here but rather a pure coincidence. Of course I had a judgment to make at some point but my knowledge on the country at this time was rather poor and limited to horrible stereotypes. An opportunity like this couldn’t be missed. And so I moved…
It seems that for now nothing is really pushing me to leave. Until then I’m experiencing…
After a looooong break, I’m coming back feeding a little bit more the rusty blog I started during the summer 2006. I stopped writting blaming my busy winter weeks. But it was not the reason I shut down the webby.
I felt unable at some point to talk about my personnal adventures, my feelings, the people around me etc.. I didn’t really stop but rather reroute an underground version some place else. This blog was more dedicated to people around me, places I discovered, parties I’ve been to and much more funny things. I was at any moment pressured thinking of people that could eventually read my articles. To be honest I was really going into sharp subjects using a strong language when the heart was feeling it. In a way, I was kind of sure that people I was writing about were not able to read me ;) How horrible is that?
Do not expect to read a lot about Reykjavik even though you certainly will. I think the long break will give me the secrecy that I lacked before. I found somewhere in a blog of a friend a link to mine without him knowing it was actually mine. Plus, I knew that some colleagues were reading it at work, not knowing it was mine. And believe me that more than once I kept some stories as drafts because it was involving people around me that could easily recognize themselves. That’s a shame. It really is.
But now the circumstances allow me to finally do it. I don’t find necessary to remove all my old posts, the insipids and the others, to start on a fresh new level. I believe the lost soul that are looking for some travel tips, trip reviews and such, will go away by themselves. Folks I have met, curious acquaintance or just lost people will probably find there a way to kill five minutes of their lives.
A lot of things happened to me during that 6 months gap. As I mentioned earlier I did write a large amount of lines. I haven’t considered to copy them down here yet. And I’m not sure I will ever do it. First, because most of them aren’t in English. That would give me a hell of a job to translate all that rubbish. Second, I would have to find a way to trick Wordpress to feed the database using the passed date. Is it really worth it? As I’m a lazy ass I’d say certainly not regarding the translation. Nevertheless I wrote some crunchy stories about people I’m hanging out with or theory I made up which push me considering the possibility.
God Damn it ! I would have never thought that I’ll do it ! but yeah, I give it a try… The truth is, I found most of the blog horribly boring and most of the time pathetic. So Why Shall I start ? I have quite some time these days. Not sure it will continue like this forever. Somewhere in my head I wish NOT. And reading some of my friends blog pushed me thinking about some funny stories I could tell. So I kinda felt it could be amusing to speak about how’s life going on up here.