Prepaprations for my first ever trip to Greenland to visit my biological family for two weeks in august, and we're all - danish family, greenlandic family, me - happy and eager about this.
I haven't got butterflies in my stomach - it's the whole goddamned zoo having a party stampede in there!!!
Plane tickets bought, hotels and lodge booked and paid for, I bought a new suitcase and a carry on today, and I have had my passport renewed and holiday approved of at all the right offices here, there and everywhere...*happy sigh*
I'll have to stay one night on Illulisaat before I fly to Upernavik the day after, there's no flights to Upernavik that day. And it's the same when I go back home.
The lady at the travel agency was kind enough to get me a hotel room in Illulisat, with a panoramic view of the icy fiord - and I get my own hut in Upernavik. *rubs hands*
I sure as hell hope that this is going to be good.
And no matter how this goes, I'm definitely happy that I get the chance to meet my biological mother and older brother at least this once.
Because going to Greenland costs a fortune, it is highly possible that I won't be able to afford a trip like this ever again.
So I'm just happy that I get to go this one time, visit my family - and get to see the country where I was born, meet the people that I come from, and experience the fantastic nature up there.
And don't worry guys, once I do get back home, I'll most likely photo-flood my piccy thread in here with pics from the trip.
So - if I don't write much in here for the next few weeks, now you know why.
And to add to all the goodness happening, my boss is incredibly happy with me and my work, he wants to fight to keep me in my current job as a photographer - which I love.
He would very much like to expand my work by working to make me a photographer for the county institutions here, that gives me hope for the first time in many years.
He's a man with connections and tons of new ideas that he actually manages to implement at the place where he's boss, meaning that he actually put action behind his words.
And he does this, simply because he can see that photography is my passion, it is what I love to do.
Here's to hope! *toasts in orange soda*