Hi, my name is T ómas Egilsson, and welcome to my blog. I am 16 years old, from Seltjarnarnes, Iceland, and study at Raha International School. I have few strong interests, and lots of milder ones. I´ll only focus on the main ones today. I am a huge Liverpool fan, and follow football and the English Premier League religiously. I rarely ever miss a match, unless I simply don ’t have time. I was able to go to Anfield, for a Liverpool vs Stoke match, which we won (notice the use of “we” when speaking about Liverpool) 4-1. Other than football, I enjoy films quite a bit. My personal project was a collection of 24 film reviews all packed into one big book. Comedies are my favorite genre, closely followed by a good thriller. I play a lot of video games (but that’ll most likely change with DP), and I will beat you at FIFA. As years have gone by, I have learned about the importance of family. My 27-year old brother is my best friend (Sorry Rainier and Madhav) and every year I become ...
When I moved to Abu Dhabi I was 9 years old. I had never travelled anywhere outside Europe, and had a mix of an Icelandic and American accent. It was 2010 and my father had already lived here for a year. I’d only visited him once during that time. While there for three weeks, I visited this school called “Raha International School”. This was the school I was going to spend the next three years (unbeknownst to me, that number would triple). Before I moved to Abu Dhabi, I took some English classes with a tutor in order to be prepared for the fourth grade in an English speaking, international school. I really liked my tutor, she was super nice and taught very well. What I always found funny was that she would speak Icelandic with a thick American accent, while I would speak English with what I thought was an American accent, but my friends have since told me that I had a very strong Icelandic accent. She would ask me questions like: “How do you like the weather in Iceland?”, and I’d...
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