Date: Oct 4 1992 at 4:30am
Subject: This week's messages from Iceland
Dear Friends,
Lara sends us another letter in which she and her son Gisli Tryggvi answer
some of the questions posed by the children of Stanley Infants.
We are looking forward to receiving messages from Tasmania and the
other groups on this distribution list.
Please send us your postal ******
addresses so that the Stanley /((()))\
kids can mail you all picture /********\
cards for your display areas. I////\\\\\\I
(they are hoping that you will ((/((/))\)\)
send them picture postcards :-) ;;-- --;;
(d @ . @ b)
Last week I was sent the !! ! !!
picture opposite and && ^ &&
thought that it might ((\ \_/ /))
inspire some of us to (((\ /)))
have the kids designing !!!/ \!!!
images ? __##/ \##__
Nice isn't it. Shari Summers, Co-Sysop, CPSnet
regards, Mike
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Subj: Infant_project,_Iceland
From: lara@is.ismennt (Lara Stefansdottir)
Hello Mike,
Gisli Tryggvi loved the letters he got. He talks and talks
about what he wants to write to the kids at Stanley. He types
a little but then I write for him what he has to say.
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Hello to you all in Stanley Infant school
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Yesterday I had a little accident. My friend Hrannar putted
his finger in my eye just by accident. He was not trying to
hurt me. But I had a wound in my eye and now I have bandages
on my right eye and look like a pirot. No blood comes from a
wound in an eye. It will grow fast but now I can not see with
that eye. But after two days the doctor says that I will be ok
and then I can see again. Have some of you got hurt like that?
How do you heat your houses? Our house is heated with hot
water from the hot water fountens. Somebody drills a hole in
the earth and the hot boiling water comes up. We keep the
water in big tanks and it comes through pipes to our house.
It is wery hot and heat our radiators when it gets through
them. Hot water fountains are dangerous me and my dad was
looking at one that exploded a lot of water from it like a
fountain. Some water was spilled on us but we didn't get hurt.
Some of the water is used in swimming pools. I love to swim.
We do often go to the outdoor swimming pool although it is
winter. When we are very warm in the pool we sometimes jump
just in our swimming suits to the snow. That is cold, then we
screem and jump again into the warm pool. Do you like to swim?
Do dragons live in your country? No dragons live in Iceland.
I can not write you all special letter because you are so many
but I try. Please write again
Gisli Tryggvi
To Amy
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Hello Amy
When I go to school in the winter I have to wear warm clothes.
I have to wear, one cotton trousers and one jeans. Sometimes I
have also to wear special snowtrousers. I have to wear warm
sweather and warm coat. Something warm on my head, hands and
feets that is usually made from the hair of sheeps like you
see on your picture from Iceland.
Do you have a lot of toys? My daymother has a lot of, three
boxes full of toys. My daymothers name is Solrun, she takes
care of me after school until my parents finishes work.
After school I have lunch with Solrun and in the afternoon I
get milk and bread.
I would love to get a postcard. I can also send you a postcard
if you send me your address.
love Gisli Tryggvi
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To Debby and Raisa
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We have many clocks, 7 clocks in all. Do you have many clocks
at your home?
My house is large, there are 30 flats in my house.
Yes I have my own bedroom. There are 8 rooms in my flat. On
the second floor is my room, my sisters room she is 16 and her
name is Hilda Jana, there is also a wc. There is also a hall
with a table. Downstairs is kitchen, my parents bedroom,
bathroom, living room and one computer room. There are two
computers in the computer room one for my dad and another for
my mother. I have a Nintendo computer.
How many rooms do you have?
There are 5 beds in my house.
It is not allowed to bath in hot water fountain it is so hot,
the water is boiling.
There is a large garden to play in at the back of our house
there we play soccer and run on our bycicle
love Gisli Tryggvi
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To: Jodie and Jade
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It must be wonderful to live in a boat. Nobody lives in a boat
in Iceland. We have many boats because we fish a lot and sell
our fish to other countries. Some cod goes from us to England.
Have you seen a fish? My dad and I sometimes fish trout.
love Gisli Tryggvi
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To: Rachel
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My front door is also brown. My room is bluegreen but the
celing is red and green. Red is my favorite color. Our
computer room is violet and yellow. Our bathroom is blue. Our
kitchen is light green. My parents bedroom is orange and
green. Our livingroom is beige with red window sills.
love Gisli Tryggvi
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Hello Elizabeth,
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My country is warm because warm stream in the sea heats it up,
it is called Golf stream. Is your country hot?
My house is made of concrete. It is an apartment building that
is 5 floors. I live on the 5th floor but I can go to the 6th
because my flat is two floors. My house is white but the roof
is yellow. What color is your house?
No, no, no, there are no igloos in Iceland.
Is a sea close by you? The sea is in the front of our house
just across my street Seilugrandi.
Gisli Tryggvi
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To: Andrew Brooman
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Hello Andrew
My school is Isaksskoli. Our houses are nearly all made of
concreat. My mother is going to show me a house that is made
of bricks tomorrow. She tells me it is made like "Lego house"
is it?
In Iceland there are no trains, I have never seen a real
train. Do they go into tunnels?
Our houses are strong because sometimes there are earthquakes.
Therefore we have lot of iron bindings in our concrete when we
make our houses. Are earthquakes sometimes in your country? I
do not remember one they come not often.
In Iceland are no locks, aren't they odd?
There are seldom flat roofs on Icelandic houses because then
the snow stays on the roof and melts into the houses. Do you
have flat roofs?
Gisli Tryggvi