Together we're never alone...

The Faroese government has decided to lend us 300 million Danish Kronas.

Somehow this feels like getting a lone from your 11 year old brother. Two years of his pocket money to pay your traffic fine of 15.000 ÍSK...

...annað meiri háttar skemmdir

I know it might be a bit hypocritical of myself, throwing stones in a house of glass like this, but this article here almost offends me. Not the article itself of course, and I feel sorry for the stakeholders of Gjögur Bridge, but if you are getting paid to write for the most read Icelandic newspaper, you certainly have to hold some kind of language standard. There are a couple of easily spotted declension mistakes, in addition to spelling mistakes, typos and just bad language in general.

Maybe the mbl.is should introduce some sort of proof-reading programme in their work?

Ik ben een blonde IJslandse meisje. Wat kan ik voor jíj doen?

Big, bold headlines with the word IJsland somewhere amongst other Dutch words are no longer to be found on front pages of newspapers. No longer are there articles, written by bitter owners of IceSave accounts, requesting that de blonde IJslandse meisjes, the blond Icelandic girls, work for the debts of the nation by baby-sitting, gardening or free prostitution (is that a value exchange?). But the news of our financial crash are nowhere near to be forgotten. Lectures of school give me the poor girl-look, wedding guests in Germany make jokes about the deceased economy of Iceland and Mahir from the Tyrkish Café on the ground floor of my flat just laughs, shakes his head and puts my money back in my bag when I insist on paying for my coffee. Then he brings me a beer and says: "Save your money, little girl. Don't worry, be happy!"

At least I'm not chased out of bag-shops on Strøget...

Don't matter...

When one has a dry blog spell it's hard to start again. So much has happened since last blog, I've moved in with Unnsteinn, the Icelandic economy crashed and a man got shot in front of school. But I wouldn't know which topic to choose, how to write, what to say. So I'll just post a photo of me and my new glasses.