No minkey dont come from norway like you and me do, she is from our lovely neighbour country Sweden, who Norway by the way beat in biathlon today.....if you have been listening in the history classes , you would have known that both Sweden and Denmark were vikings. but half of her is from Norway, i do not know if she speaks norwegian, but she clearly understands it perfectly...trust me on that one, i know it.

Stupid me

The Universe, Milky Way Galaxy, Sol System, Earth, Oceania, Australia, Queensland, Far North Queensland, Cairns, Whitfield, My House, The Area Between the Dining Room and Lounge Room, The Chair.

Nah...au pair and college, a combination sort of.....she likes it very much i reckon because we don´t hear much from her, and she´s the person who just call mom and dad when something´s not good!


Nope...as Tellie said I´m half swedish, half german but I do understand norwegian!

Not sure waht au pair is but hey if it livens up the state then more power to it. I don't think theres much to do here except wonder how much the wheather is going to change from day to day. Right now it's probably about 60 degrees outside, tomarrow will be the same. Tuesday the high is going ot be about 30-something and we may see snow. Just because the state is shaped like a mitten doesn't mean it likes snow on it all the time.

Au pair is taking care of children when living in a family..she does that besides her study..
Oh but she likes Ann Arbor (where she lives at the moment) a lot..it´s quite a difference to the town we live in here in sweden!!!

Ah yes, I think over here that's called being a 'nanny'. Ccan't say I've ver been to Ann Arbor but I'm sure there is a lot to do there considering that's where Michigan University is (I'm guessing that's where she's going too).

I think if I ever went to Italy or Ireland I would think the most boring towns are great simply because I was in another country that I've never been to.

i live in a lil ol' town called kelowna in British Columbia (and for all you ignorant americans thats in Canada)

and for all you even more americans its the one that kicked your a$$ in a war.

im above you

I knew that was in canada.

I'm from Denmark
A piece of land 'on top' of Europe
The cOOlest Vikings in middle earth

Currently I live in Washington, but I'm moving to Alaska real soon.

I live in Great Britain, England, Somerset, Street! Yes, my town is called Street. Home of Clarks! In the middle of many many fields! GET ORF MOI LAND! Ahem. Yes. Sorry, I got hit by a stereotype

England, Europe...

I curently live in a shack under a bridge. Just kiding, I live in a four room apartment bloc in the capital of Romania, Bucharest. I have a nice view to a decrepit park in front of my tower bloc. I like to randomly throw potatoes at old people passing by my balcony and walking their dogs which always piss on my parent's car.

I live in Bristol, England I was born in England but my roots mainly from Burma and Italy so that makes me italian, burmese and English and quite a few more but those are the main three

England, currently Surrey (commuter-land), originally West Midlands. Lived in Maryland USA for four years, had a wonderful experience.

Europe, Holland .
MWUHAHAHAHAHAA EUROPEANS RUUUUULE THIS FORUM!

@Jack Cloudy: Whoohaa another Dutch one !
Are there any Belgians here? In Holland we use to make fun of you -- but I heard you do the same with us ...

I live in the USA, but when I graduate college I plan to move to England, or Japan.

New Zealand but I am considering going to Antarctica. Seriously I am, though it won't be for a few years now.

Residing in a land many tend to think of as the home of kangaroos, with lots of mountains and mozart n stuff

Currently living in Eastern Europe, the country of Romania, the city of Bucharest, to be more precise. My folks live in the town of Cernavoda, but I moved to the capital, in search of a better school and more job opportunities.

I originaly come from Serbia & Montenegro,from a town called Kraljevo.Nothing much to do there,so if you are visiting Serbia i highly recommend you visit Belgrade.It's one of the best cityes i've ever been.The contry isn't rich but it has other charms....

Right now i moved to Nederland,in a little town called Rijswijk near Den Haag.Right now i'm working with emigration papers to be accepted in the country.I think there won't be any major problems,if i learn the language correctly .

Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, North America, Northwestern hemisphere, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Universe.

Rainer loves doing that

We live in a condo complex on a private lake in Florida, a bit North of Orlando. I really love Florida - we've been here (God!) 25 years now. Before here we had a 4 year honeymoon in San Antonio, Texas on BSA motorcycle. Before that we got married in the pine woods of South Jersey in a 'robin hood wedding' where all our friends camped out in the woods with us. It was great ... although we did move to Texas to kinda get some privacy from the partying. tee hee
Cain and I were both born in Philly, raised in Jersey. Both of us couldn't wait to leave the state ever since we were little kids. We were also in agreement that we didn't want to have any children of our own ... so it's really been alot of fun!
Wouldn't have it any other way.

I'm up in good ol' Canada, near Toronto for anyone who knows about Canada.

Youropeee.

Green and pleasant land. With many ugly and unpleasant people.

England. Betcha never woulda guessed, huh, huh?

I'm stuck in the slum-hole town of Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Bradford is a dark and dreary place, where the skies are always overcast, the buildings are all caked in grime, and there is the odd race-related riot. Really I think Bill Bryson said it best when he described Bradford as something along the lines of 'the kind of place everywhere else tries not to be'.

You can get a good curry, though.

Stavanger, south-western Norway. Norway is not the capital of Sweden as many Americans think (or used to think some years ago), but is in fact a country.

Olav, that's funny! Is that a Swedish joke?

Actually it's true! I remember seeing documentaries or news segments of the USA and Americans. When People where stopped on the street and asked if they knew where Norway was, a shocking high number of Americans said that it was the capital of Sweden!

Anyway I don't think this is the case anymore, as Norway has been put more on the map during the last 10 years or so, for better and worse (whale meat, anyone? )

...Yet further evidence that USA is growing ever more ignorant of other countries...


Not entirely, just a fairly big chunk

Sweden isn't the capital of Norway?

Damn. Next you're going to be telling me that the capital of America isn't New York, and that the whole of central Asia actually is divided into countries, rather than being this sort of mass of emptiness and void, a twilight zone owned by some guy called Stan.

All I've got to do now is work out where this Stockholm place is. I think it might be somewhere between Norway and Finland.

LOL Good one Foster!

hehehehe ... very funny.

Olav, don't feel bad, this sort of thing (ignorant Americans) happens over here too.

My hubby n I are both born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey. After we got married we moved to San Antonio, Texas.
Whenever we'd tell people in San Antone we were from New Jersey, they'd say "So what's the Big Apple like?" & "I've always dreamed of going to NYC." & "New York isn't as big as Texas." So we are saying "No, not New York, New Jersey." and they all would say "Well, isn't that a burrough of New York?"
Not just a few, all of them thought that. Stupid Texans!

LOL Ibis, that sounds hilarious! Even I knew that New Jersey isn't the same as New York.

But I must admit I don't know much about US geography, so please don't ask me any questions on that... The main reason I know is that I've been to New York myself (when I was a kid, amazed by the view from the top floor of one of the World Trade Center buildings when it wasn't even completely finished... ), while I had a former classmate who spent a year as an exchange student in New Jersey. We had some discussions on the location of that back then...

Someone actually asked me on my first time to the US if I knew the Queen.

"Of course I do. I eat cucumber sandwiches with her every afternoon at 3, on the veranda looking out over the croquet lawn. Why do you ask, colonial?"

On the whole (and I know I'm generalising) people are ignorant about Geography and History. That's not just the US, mind you, but the US does have the most notable occasions. It took a lot of explaining to someone who was in the US military that I wasn't lying when I told him that there was such a thing as the Spanish-American war.

i am very good at geography, i got an A in socials in that section! i am not ignorant of other countries what so ever. I am terrified of all the europeans in the forums taking over.

"hides in corner in feetle position"

I'm not in fear, I am truly astounded by the huge ammount of people around the globe who speak English. I think it's fantastic - especially since it's the only language I can speak. I can read Spanish but really don't speak much of it.

I salute all the multi-lingual people of the world. You are the ones really making the world go round, or at least, making it turn more easily and with good relations between many countries. I saw that in Europe it was standard for everyone to speak at least two languages.

Americans are spoiled, I think. We really don't give a thought to what true communications between people of different cultures involves. We here in Orlando see a lot of international tourism. But let a New Hampshirite go to Oklahoma & honey, let me tell you - not only will they probably not understand him but they will probably make fun of him just for being different. And vice versa I'd bet.

Miami, Florida yeaaaaaa. Go Heat!!!!!!!!!!!!

Canadian, born and bred in my moderate sized city called Kitchener. Though we basically border directly with two other cities, so this area is called the "Tri-Cities" area.

I'm in Ontario, so it's the congested, fairly temperate place in Canada. Not too hot and not too cold.

Okay I know this is probably the lamest joke y'all hear but .... are you all good cooks in Kitchner?

Haha, very "cheesy" of you Ibis. Personally, I don't know if I'm a great cook, I can cook what I need to eat.

I know a few good cooks in town though.

Now for some random trivia: This one is for you boxing fans. Lennox Lewis, former heavyweight champion, grew up in Kitchener and still owns property in a very nice area of town.

*rainbow star* The more you know! *rainbow star*

Cool TMM! I've been to Canada 3 times when young and I really liked it there. Very beautiful country.

I will never forget a Catholic mass we attended in Quebec that was conducted entirely in French and we couldn't understand the sermon ... but my father pointed out how expressive the priest had been with his hands and from the few Latin words we heard .. figured out the subject of the sermon in English. Great fun. Good breakfast after that sermon too.

I live in Antarctica! Right next to the south pole! I'm Sualc Atnas, arch enemy of Santa Claus! I help the Grinch, and blow up the little Bosmeri children that work at Santa's place with Nitro Glicerine bombs! And put Nitro Glicerine into the water system at the north pole! Just joking, I live in Letitikaha. It's a secret state that no one knows about, because it goes by another name - Colorado. I AM CORNHOLIO! GIVE ME YOUR TIPI, OR SUFFER THE WRATH OF THE ALMIGHTY BUNGHOLE! *cue Meow Mix song, while playing a scene of me chopping up Nix Hounds on Morrowind*

So, ever write a story aboot a boot? Ha ha ha, had to say that! And, are you pissed off about the South Park Movie?

Of course not, that movie was hilarious. It's very tongue-in-cheek, I can never take that stuff seriously.

Speaking of movies, I just finished watching a Canadian one called Bon Cop Bad Cop. Basically for a loose comparison, it's like the Bad Boys movies only Canadianized. The two cops are a French-Canadian one and a English one. So the humour at times is dark, and yet there is a seriousness to the movie in certain parts. Other times are completely hilarious. If you don't mind subtitles (about half the movie is spoken in Quebec French), then you could like it very much.

It looked like they had a very nice budget too, the film looked great, Hollywood even.

And to think that I started this thread yet didn't even give my own vote...

The bedlamite whose post you're reading right now was born in/lives in/plans to die in the Nordic country currently known as Finland.