Hello! It has been soooo long since my last blog. Maybe I'll just say a little bit of the stuff that I've been up to since last time.
So first of all I graduated from photography school in december. :) I was going to try get an apprenticeship as a photographer to get a diploma to be able to work as a photographer but I knew it is really hard these days to get an apprentice ship and I also felt that I wanted some more education in other stuff that I had wanted to do for years. So instead of getting an apprenticeship I took a spontant decicion and applied for film school last minute. And since january I have been a film student in the technical department of the school which means that I'm studying cinematography, editing, sound recording and sound editing and stuff like that. It's an awesome school and I really really enjoy it. The school takes only four semesters and I am already getting sad that I only have two and a half semesters left there.
Here is my first super-short film that I made at school. :D
I haven't traveled much in my life so it has been kind of crazy for me that this year I have been to three different countries. :)
In may I went to Stockholm with 4 pole friends to compete in a nordic pole competition. We all had a great time even though we got pretty bummed that the competition got cancelled last minute due to safety issues. Everyone was backstage getting ready to compete, putting on their makeup, warming up and stretching when we were told that there was no competition because the poles weren't safe and the venue didn't allow the organisers to get more time for it to be fixed. It really sucked as there were people travelling from other countries for the competition but I guess shit happens sometimes.
My swedish cow friends
Our swedish home was a small room covered with inflated mattresses and 5 icelandic pole girls.
Me and four of the other competitors being silly. The one in the middle is the amazing Oona Kivela a multiple world pole champion! <3 I need bigger guns though! Haha
A few weeks later me and my friend got into the world pole sports world championships in London. We were both super stressed and stupid and did not get our routines ready until a few days before we flew out to London to compete. I got quite mad at myself for not training like I should and not getting a single rest day while training for this. But it was still a good experience and awesome to be at such a big professional competition where the best pole dancers of the world are competing. We didn't get to the finals but we didn't expect to anyway knowing how insanely awesome all the other competitors were compared to us but I was really really happy to get to watch the finals on the second day of the competition.
Backstage during the preliminaries
Watching the finals.
The competing was very stressful and I had been dealing with small but very annoying injuries so it was great to go to Pole Expo in Las Vegas :D I met all of my favorite pole idols and a competition and a showcase. I was so excited I almost cried when I got to the comtetition at the start of the expo!
The competing was very stressful and I had been dealing with small but very annoying injuries so it was great to go to Pole Expo in Las Vegas :D I met all of my favorite pole idols and a competition and a showcase. I was so excited I almost cried when I got to the comtetition at the start of the expo :P
Stretch everywhere always!
Of course we checked out the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam while we were there and I have to say that it surprised myself that I enjoyed that little road trip way more then staying in the big cities with girls who didn't want to do anything else then shopping. I don't know if this is an icelandic thing but whenever icelandic people go and visit other countries most like to spend their whole trip shopping. I get so sick of it after one day and just want to chill and see cool places.
In other news I put on make up and heels last weekend! I usually don't dress up and go out very often. :)
I would write more but I got school tomorrow and I am feeling sleepy. So that is all for now! <3
