I saw the length of this interview and thought "Do I really want to spend over an hour watching this?" Well.... that hour just flew by! So interesting on many levels! Both of you were smart, funny, honest and informative. I live in the US but got interested in Iceland because of the big volcano news... and have found it to be a whole new world to me. At my age I will never visit this beautiful country.... And long after the volcano has stopped spewing lava and smoke --- I'm still reading about the history, watching travel videos and podcasts. Thank you Jewells for your programs!!
I loved this interview! It validated all of the feelings I had about living on Iceland in 1998. Even Icelandic women are blind to sexism on Iceland, so it's really important to highlight experiences like Nichole had to show where work still needs to be done. Thanks ladies!
About 6 months ago I was web surfing looking for unusual places to visit. I came across Iceland which led me to your youtube videos and down the rabbit hole I went -lol! Love, love your videos. They are intriguing, educational and so inspirational on so many levels. Thank you so much for sharing and being fearless in your endeavors. You are awesome! can't wait to visit the country.
It means so much to hear you say that. I'm happy to hear that you plan to visit in the future and that these videos are helping you to learn more about the country.
I wasn't sure if I'd listen to it all or not, but great interview, I'm Icelandic and show's how much I watch politics here, don't think I'd heard of her before, with so much being the same, I remember waiting in line at a store or just walking around one and overheard tourist talking I think mainly about girls, don't remember the exact quote but it was on the lines of, 'there's so little difference, everyone is samey with their hair styles and how they dress' and such and it was just huh, never thought about it but she's right.
This was my favorite video so far. I appreciate the honesty and straightforwardness. I was an exchange student to Denmark 100 years ago and I’m learning Norwegian now (at a Norwegian Sailors’ Church so many Norwegians) and I have to say that sometimes that conformity is my least favorite part of Scandinavian culture. I don’t look at it as a positive and it’s kind of boring. I love many things: geography, design, the languages, the food, etc etc but the insularity drives me crazy. I think it’s the reason for the high rate of alcoholism and suicide. There’s so much sugar coating of how wonderful Nordic culture is and I loved that you and Nichole had an honest conversation. My Norwegian teacher is 83 and most of her friends have been denied medical care like heart surgeries etc because free medicine is not really free while my 85 year old mother gets more attention and better care than I do. Iceland is a gorgeous country and a very interesting history and your videos are great. I hope you will continue to give both sides of life there. Merry Christmas on the 24th. 😉
Your pod/videos are excellent. I live in upstate NY and I waited on line for almost 2 hours while I knitted. I would have gone out to vote if I had to wear a hazmat suit.
Terrific interview. I’m going to listen to your other Icelandic stories. I will be coming in the Fall and want to be knowledgeable about the people, places and things. Thank you so much as a woman of diverse ethnicity but 5th generation American. Aloha from Hawaii
Interesting talk. I like this format. The saga of Njal was mentioned. IMHO this should be part of school education all over the world. This story has a lot of life-wisdom, and is a great illustration of why we want a parliamentary democracy. I do not know if this saga was born from the early democracy in Iceland, or if it helped establishing democracy in Iceland at an early stage. Fact is that Iceland has the oldest continuous parliamentary democracy in the world.
Thank you Jewels & Nicole for this eye-opening conversation. It is shocking to realize how blind one has been to the problems that our "nýbúar" frequently encounter. My only comfort is that they are (hopefully) the result of ignorant locals rather than prejudice or racism. Frábært innlegg hjá ykkur, við þurfum meira af svona efni!
I really enjoyed this video podcast format! Not only is it cool to see the guest, but it's sometimes helpful to see the expressions on peoples faces when certain ideas are put forth. And, we get the choice to watch or just listen if we have something else we are doing in the background. More please! This was a fun one! :^}
I love that she learned the language in preschool, some of the (very little) German I learned is through nursery rhymes my kids listen to :D. And yes to high standard of living in the US! I have lived there and I have never understood why people need a >2000sqf houses, a pick up truck or minivan, and all the material stuff, so much consumerism, I realized after moving away I was starting to get sucked in that too :/
Awesome show 🍁 Btw...you look FABULOUS! Your makeup is beautiful. Love that color lipstick and your eyeshadow. I wear that eyeshadow alot. You're finding comradery. 🤩
Concerning the language part, to prove your ability in the French language, there are exams, which test your language skills, the DALF (C1 - C2) and the DELF (B1 - B2). Certain programs in universities, for example, require that you have a specific level to enter into it, though there are some programs totally in English.
I agree that there should be some language proficiency examination. I can’t imagine sitting in a classroom being instructed in a language that I don’t fully understand. It would be setting yourself up for failure in my opinion. I wonder how difficult those exams are. I definitely want to take a look and possibly try just for fun and the experience. Thanks for sharing this!
This is great! Very good talk, addressed a lot and I feel like I’m becoming more Icelandic each time with you guys even from far away haha 😊 and I died at the nudey club haha 😂
Beautiful color lipstick on you. Very interesting observations Nichole has made. Imagine, her experience as an immigrant in Iceland explains much of what I saw here in the US with my immigrant students. I hear you and yes, I've voted, as have my children and my husband. My cousins.... We have voted. And thank you both.
Thank you! Yea, I was amazed at how much Nichole's experience parallels with many immigrant experiences in the US. So glad to hear you and your family have voted.
Great conversation. Such a wonderful experience. Thanks for sharing this. I wanted to note that Nichole's audio was so much balanced and clear and yours was a little bit "metal canish" and not so clear.
Love the format. Also love the podcast but video adds another dimension. Would be interesting to see you conduct a segment of the interview in Icelandic with English subtitles. Might be good practice for you and I'm sure some of us are invested in seeing your growth with the language.
What a great and honest interview! I loved it! The whole immigrant issue problems are easily transferrable to any other country! What often times natives don't understand or just don't wanna see because of the lack of looking beyond their comfort zone and the possibilities for the whole society as well as advantages for themselves, is: That foreigners/immigrants most of them are scared and vulnerable when they come to your country. (Just imagine youself being in that position and you will act differently!) Most of them are trying hard to fit in, to adapt and to become a valuable part of your society. And if the structure of support is there, the educational as well as social, the whole country would benefit from that even common wealth wise. They would not steal your job, there would be even more jobs created. So this being said, because of their ambition to be treated equally, most of them will never speak out and go and fight for their rights, just simply because they wouldn't want to be picked out again as the troublemakers and feed those people with more negativity towards them... so they'd rather take the abuse, take the failure to get a better job etc. And that's where the society is failing. That's when you start to hear things like: oh look at this immigrant group...always being among their own kind, they're up to something, you can't trust them, cause you don't know what their up to, since it's kinda a closed society... and if a few of them are committing crimes or even hate crimes towards the society, you can hear the prejudice voices even louder: you see, i told you their are bad... Yeah, but what i always think is, that if a person by bad luck was faced with so many abuses against him/her/the loved ones...you start distancing yourself from the society you tried to fit in. And in the end the society has created its own 'enemies'(a little exaggerated) by simply not caring, looking away or even worse by treating them badly. But the truth is, if you are mind narrowed and try to keep things the way they are, you will be run over. Diversity will always be and always has been a gain for the whole society. You can only develop job wise as well as a whole country, when you start to learn from others, when you start to open your mind for new ideas, when you start looking for new ways of doing things. Cause one thing is very certain, if you stay in your comfort zone, you stuck and will never develop and become better, while everyone else who is taking those steps will. And as far as i see it, to help those people in every country (and this is what I'm trying to do in mine as well) is to give them a voice, by just speaking out for them, whenever I witness a prejudice, abuse, discrimination, racism, which sometimes even starts in your own family. Take your social responsibility and speak out for those who are to vulnerable to do so by themselves Just be a good person, we've got enough bad people, that's why the world needs you, too. But don't worry, good is everywhere to be found. (that's what I say to my kids😉)
Fantastic video/podcast Jewels and looking forward to many more. BTW u're looking absolutely gorgeous - always a pleasure to watch and listen to. I'm fascinated with different accents and Nichole has a lost a bit of her US one! What an amazing lady and enjoyed every minute of her fascinating story. Can so relate to both of u as our family had to learn a new language when we emigrated. Thank u for the wonderful video.
Fabulous interview with Ms.Mostly. Oh, how I wish she had been there when I was there. 1974-86. I did see alot of bigotry against utlendingur. I went to the Uni for the Icelandic courses. It was hard to work full time & be in school full time. I was lucky to always have great jobs, but I found those who worked under me be very stand offish & told me often that the top jobs should given real Icelanders. As time went on I became so Icelandic no one noticed I didn't belong there . So I am just leaning things from her now that I didn't know.
This was a great interview, loved the honest. I went the opposite way and moved from Iceland to California 11 years ago, so it's interesting to see the different challenges Nichole had compared to my experience.
How supportive were/are your men to make it easier for you to be integrated in family and friend circle? It feels as if you had been left alone to cope with this.
I can only speak for my husband and he has been very supportive. However, there is only so much he can do. Learning the language and how to adapt to a new culture is hard. It takes time and a lot of persistence.
@@AllThingsIceland I know! :) I'm French and married in a German family and moved to Germany 40 years ago. Still I believe the culture gap must be much bigger between US/Iceland than between France/Germany.
to your last point on US voting - yeah many of us voted early-- if it's available in our state - and this time people have turned out in record numbers to the polls as you probably already know. (I went to the polls about a week and a half ago so I know my vote went though... at the polls. ) anyhow - all American abroad - please, remember to vote for your Senators and Congressman as well b/c without your vote there, the president is stuck with the opposing party and getting no laws passed - That's what happened with Obama. Additionally, Trump would've been impeached and REMOVED as you probably know, if the the Senate were Democrat majority at the time-- Amy Coney-Barrett only got confirmed by about 4 Senate votes over a stalemate (though overall she seems to really know the law- hopefully--- she will be fair and unbiased b/c now people feel exposed to discrimination, bias and all the policies that her party supports including women having reproductive authority over their own bodies.) Needless to say US voting from overseas citizens is super important as well. Great interview! thank you!
how many immigrants learn Icelandic? Would lack of ability to learn Icelandic (a skill) be part of the reason for lack of job opportunities facing some? If people move to a country they need to learn the language of that country, it's a skill as well as respect for the country.
I think that the Scandinavian way of teaching could benefit American schools such as gymnasie (which has nothing to do with athletics) and Jante Law. I could see how they would be reluctant to have an American running things. Take your Seattle and Portland politics and go home.
@@Eyezofdarkfire I'm saying that these peaceful protests were uncalled for as well as the war against the police. They only helped to get Trump re-elected. France is re-thinking their Islamic crisis and Norway is getting tired of Brussels pushing them around. Not even in the EU.
Scandinavian way? I don't think the way of teaching is the same in the Nordic countries. I think the Finish school system (considerably better) is quite different from the Icelandic one
I saw the length of this interview and thought "Do I really want to spend over an hour watching this?" Well.... that hour just flew by! So interesting on many levels! Both of you were smart, funny, honest and informative. I live in the US but got interested in Iceland because of the big volcano news... and have found it to be a whole new world to me. At my age I will never visit this beautiful country.... And long after the volcano has stopped spewing lava and smoke --- I'm still reading about the history, watching travel videos and podcasts. Thank you Jewells for your programs!!
Thank you so much for this lovely comment. ❤️
What a wonderful interview!! I'm in awe of both of these brave ladies!
Very thought provoking, well done Jewells.
Thank you 😊
I loved this interview! It validated all of the feelings I had about living on Iceland in 1998. Even Icelandic women are blind to sexism on Iceland, so it's really important to highlight experiences like Nichole had to show where work still needs to be done. Thanks ladies!
I love that she says "hérna" when she is thinking about what to say.
😂 me too
About 6 months ago I was web surfing looking for unusual places to visit. I came across Iceland which led me to your youtube videos and down the rabbit hole I went -lol! Love, love your videos. They are intriguing, educational and so inspirational on so many levels. Thank you so much for sharing and being fearless in your endeavors. You are awesome! can't wait to visit the country.
It means so much to hear you say that. I'm happy to hear that you plan to visit in the future and that these videos are helping you to learn more about the country.
My respect to you ladies,thanks for sharing your experiences.
I love this channel and so glad that it popped up in my feed. Keep on posting, Jewels. I am catching up on your past videos.
Aww, thank you. So glad to hear you are enjoying All Things Iceland.
Wow! Mosty is a grinder. Very inspiring and thought provoking interview. Thank you for doing this podcast.
Agreed! My pleasure and thanks for watching.
Thank you for giving a platform to all this unique experiences
My pleasure and thank you for watching. 😊
I wasn't sure if I'd listen to it all or not, but great interview, I'm Icelandic and show's how much I watch politics here, don't think I'd heard of her before, with so much being the same, I remember waiting in line at a store or just walking around one and overheard tourist talking I think mainly about girls, don't remember the exact quote but it was on the lines of, 'there's so little difference, everyone is samey with their hair styles and how they dress' and such and it was just huh, never thought about it but she's right.
This was my favorite video so far. I appreciate the honesty and straightforwardness. I was an exchange student to Denmark 100 years ago and I’m learning Norwegian now (at a Norwegian Sailors’ Church so many Norwegians) and I have to say that sometimes that conformity is my least favorite part of Scandinavian culture. I don’t look at it as a positive and it’s kind of boring. I love many things: geography, design, the languages, the food, etc etc but the insularity drives me crazy. I think it’s the reason for the high rate of alcoholism and suicide. There’s so much sugar coating of how wonderful Nordic culture is and I loved that you and Nichole had an honest conversation. My Norwegian teacher is 83 and most of her friends have been denied medical care like heart surgeries etc because free medicine is not really free while my 85 year old mother gets more attention and better care than I do.
Iceland is a gorgeous country and a very interesting history and your videos are great. I hope you will continue to give both sides of life there. Merry Christmas on the 24th. 😉
100 years ago? You must be an elf :)
Thank for sharing. I appreciate the honesty and not sugar coating the experience.
Your pod/videos are excellent. I live in upstate NY and I waited on line for almost 2 hours while I knitted. I would have gone out to vote if I had to wear a hazmat suit.
Glad you enjoy the videos. I’m sorry you had to wait 2 hours to vote. It’s good you had your knitting with you. 😊
Nichole even did the Icelandic talking while inhaling at the end. That's what 20 years living here does to your speech
LOL yup
That's what living on Iceland did to me after one year, and 20 years later I'm still doing it.
We are planning to visit next summer and I appreciate your perspective and real talk with us all! Thank you
My pleasure and so glad to hear that you like hearing these interviews :-)
I enjoyed the interview in learning" all things Iceland" with Icelandic Parliament and with both personal experiences living and working in Iceland.
Thank you for bringing your podcasts here. Yay!
My pleasure and thanks for watching. 😊
Terrific interview. I’m going to listen to your other Icelandic stories. I will be coming in the Fall and want to be knowledgeable about the people, places and things. Thank you so much as a woman of diverse ethnicity but 5th generation American. Aloha from Hawaii
You guys are so daring to have made the leap. Really enjoyed the interview.
Aww, thank you. Glad to hear you enjoyed this interview. 😊
A great guest, interview and overall concept to further develop "All Things Iceland."
Interesting talk. I like this format.
The saga of Njal was mentioned. IMHO this should be part of school education all over the world. This story has a lot of life-wisdom, and is a great illustration of why we want a parliamentary democracy. I do not know if this saga was born from the early democracy in Iceland, or if it helped establishing democracy in Iceland at an early stage. Fact is that Iceland has the oldest continuous parliamentary democracy in the world.
I really enjoyed this interview: great guest and wonderful conversation.
Thank you 🤗
Wow! What a story!
Agreed! It's incredible to hear her journey here so far.
Thank you Jewels & Nicole for this eye-opening conversation.
It is shocking to realize how blind one has been to the problems that our "nýbúar" frequently encounter. My only comfort is that they are (hopefully) the result of ignorant locals rather than prejudice or racism.
Frábært innlegg hjá ykkur, við þurfum meira af svona efni!
I really enjoyed this video podcast format! Not only is it cool to see the guest, but it's sometimes helpful to see the expressions on peoples faces when certain ideas are put forth. And, we get the choice to watch or just listen if we have something else we are doing in the background. More please! This was a fun one! :^}
Awesome to hear and thanks for the feedback. I’m trying to transition over to this format. There is definitely more coming soon. 😊
What a beautiful and inspiring story! Thank you so much for sharing that with us!
Agreed and our pleasure. Thanks for watching.
I love that she learned the language in preschool, some of the (very little) German I learned is through nursery rhymes my kids listen to :D. And yes to high standard of living in the US! I have lived there and I have never understood why people need a >2000sqf houses, a pick up truck or minivan, and all the material stuff, so much consumerism, I realized after moving away I was starting to get sucked in that too :/
Great interview! It’s so good to see women working for a more equitable world!
Thank you! 🤗
I'm only 13 seconds in but.... Girl girl girl! That lip gloss is on point! ON POINT!
Okay now I'm going to enjoy the rest of the video. 💜💜💜
I'm going to mark this down as my most embarrassing public comment ever... But it had to be said
Awesome show 🍁 Btw...you look FABULOUS! Your makeup is beautiful. Love that color lipstick and your eyeshadow. I wear that eyeshadow alot. You're finding comradery. 🤩
Aww, thank you so much. 🤗
What a wonderful and courageous person. Thank you for sharing!
My pleasure and thanks for watching.
Takk fyrir frábært viðtal! Við erum heppin hér á Íslandi að þið báðar hafið flutt hingað, tvær sterkar og klárar konur sem bætið samfélagið hér
Þakka þér kærlega fyrir ❤️
Ég the heilshugar undir þetta!
@@AllThingsIceland
Concerning the language part, to prove your ability in the French language, there are exams, which test your language skills, the DALF (C1 - C2) and the DELF (B1 - B2). Certain programs in universities, for example, require that you have a specific level to enter into it, though there are some programs totally in English.
I agree that there should be some language proficiency examination. I can’t imagine sitting in a classroom being instructed in a language that I don’t fully understand. It would be setting yourself up for failure in my opinion. I wonder how difficult those exams are. I definitely want to take a look and possibly try just for fun and the experience. Thanks for sharing this!
Love your content.
Thank you! 😊
fantastic conversation, and love the long format! bravo to you both!
Thank you. So glad to hear you enjoyed this interview and format. More to come. :-)
What a fantastic interview of a amazing and inspiring woman.Thank you Jewells. You are both awesome.💕
Thank you!
This is great! Very good talk, addressed a lot and I feel like I’m becoming more Icelandic each time with you guys even from far away haha 😊 and I died at the nudey club haha 😂
Thanks. Yay for becoming Icelandic from afar. 😊🥳
The nudey club was great. 😂
Beautiful color lipstick on you. Very interesting observations Nichole has made. Imagine, her experience as an immigrant in Iceland explains much of what I saw here in the US with my immigrant students. I hear you and yes, I've voted, as have my children and my husband. My cousins.... We have voted. And thank you both.
Thank you!
Yea, I was amazed at how much Nichole's experience parallels with many immigrant experiences in the US.
So glad to hear you and your family have voted.
Great interview
Thank you 🤗
Thank you so much for this podcast.
Þakka ykkur báðum fyrir. Frábært framtak.
Okkar var ánægjan. 😊
Great conversation. Such a wonderful experience. Thanks for sharing this. I wanted to note that Nichole's audio was so much balanced and clear and yours was a little bit "metal canish" and not so clear.
This is very interesting! I’ve got a lot of catching up to do but your channel is becoming one of my favorites
Thank you 😊
I love how Nichole is speaking English with an Icelandic accent
Me too!
Absolutely loved Nichole! What an inspiring person!
Agreed! She is awesome.
Love the format. Also love the podcast but video adds another dimension. Would be interesting to see you conduct a segment of the interview in Icelandic with English subtitles. Might be good practice for you and I'm sure some of us are invested in seeing your growth with the language.
Thanks! Great suggestion. 😊
What a great and honest interview! I loved it!
The whole immigrant issue problems are easily transferrable to any other country!
What often times natives don't understand or just don't wanna see because of the lack of looking beyond their comfort zone and the possibilities for the whole society as well as advantages for themselves, is:
That foreigners/immigrants most of them are scared and vulnerable when they come to your country. (Just imagine youself being in that position and you will act differently!)
Most of them are trying hard to fit in, to adapt and to become a valuable part of your society. And if the structure of support is there, the educational as well as social, the whole country would benefit from that even common wealth wise.
They would not steal your job, there would be even more jobs created.
So this being said, because of their ambition to be treated equally, most of them will never speak out and go and fight for their rights, just simply because they wouldn't want to be picked out again as the troublemakers and feed those people with more negativity towards them... so they'd rather take the abuse, take the failure to get a better job etc.
And that's where the society is failing.
That's when you start to hear things like: oh look at this immigrant group...always being among their own kind, they're up to something, you can't trust them, cause you don't know what their up to, since it's kinda a closed society... and if a few of them are committing crimes or even hate crimes towards the society, you can hear the prejudice voices even louder: you see, i told you their are bad...
Yeah, but what i always think is, that if a person by bad luck was faced with so many abuses against him/her/the loved ones...you start distancing yourself from the society you tried to fit in. And in the end the society has created its own 'enemies'(a little exaggerated) by simply not caring, looking away or even worse by treating them badly.
But the truth is, if you are mind narrowed and try to keep things the way they are, you will be run over.
Diversity will always be and always has been a gain for the whole society. You can only develop job wise as well as a whole country, when you start to learn from others, when you start to open your mind for new ideas, when you start looking for new ways of doing things. Cause one thing is very certain, if you stay in your comfort zone, you stuck and will never develop and become better, while everyone else who is taking those steps will.
And as far as i see it, to help those people in every country (and this is what I'm trying to do in mine as well) is to give them a voice, by just speaking out for them, whenever I witness a prejudice, abuse, discrimination, racism, which sometimes even starts in your own family. Take your social responsibility and speak out for those who are to vulnerable to do so by themselves
Just be a good person, we've got enough bad people, that's why the world needs you, too. But don't worry, good is everywhere to be found. (that's what I say to my kids😉)
It’s amazing to hear her story. Very interesting!!
😊
I always love your stories, but this was a really good one
Awesome and thank you. 😊
Fascinating.Thank you.
My pleasure.
Fantastic video/podcast Jewels and looking forward to many more.
BTW u're looking absolutely gorgeous - always a pleasure to watch and listen to.
I'm fascinated with different accents and Nichole has a lost a bit of her US one!
What an amazing lady and enjoyed every minute of her fascinating story.
Can so relate to both of u as our family had to learn a new language when we emigrated.
Thank u for the wonderful video.
Thank you so much for this lovely comment and sharing your experience.
Thank you Jewel this helps a lot
My pleasure 😊
Very interesting!! Didn't realize that they were so protective of their language.
Yes, very protective.
Heritage.
Awesome resilient women. I love Iceland!
Love love love!!! Women are so amazing!!!
Thank you 😊
Nice conversation. I will play it again when in the car for trip of 1.5 hours one-way.
That Icelandic word she mentioned, what was that in Icelandic?
Great. The phrase at the end was Þetta reddast. Is that what you are asking about?
@@AllThingsIceland - yes, indeed. See, it worked out. I asked, you answered ;)
Fabulous interview with Ms.Mostly. Oh, how I wish she had been there when I was there. 1974-86. I did see alot of bigotry against utlendingur. I went to the Uni for the Icelandic courses. It was hard to work full time & be in school full time. I was lucky to always have great jobs, but I found those who worked under me be very stand offish & told me often that the top jobs should given real Icelanders. As time went on I became so Icelandic no one noticed I didn't belong there . So I am just leaning things from her now that I didn't know.
Informative
Lol now you can understand how Foreigners feel in the USA love her story .on tell you leave your country to live abroad house won't relat
Yes, it is an eye opening experience to move to a totally different culture.
Abraham Lincoln: I knew that guy, he wore a hat! 😂 Thanks for sharing this chat with us! 😊
😂 my pleasure
This was a great interview, loved the honest. I went the opposite way and moved from Iceland to California 11 years ago, so it's interesting to see the different challenges Nichole had compared to my experience.
Completely off topic, but I love the unicorn artwork on the shelf behind you.
😂 thanks
Jewells you are a beautiful lady inside and out. Love your videos.
Thank you so much for the lovely comment. 🤗
Nichole has a nice accent!
😊
How supportive were/are your men to make it easier for you to be integrated in family and friend circle? It feels as if you had been left alone to cope with this.
I can only speak for my husband and he has been very supportive. However, there is only so much he can do. Learning the language and how to adapt to a new culture is hard. It takes time and a lot of persistence.
@@AllThingsIceland I know! :) I'm French and married in a German family and moved to Germany 40 years ago. Still I believe the culture gap must be much bigger between US/Iceland than between France/Germany.
What I don't understand is, why didn't her husband tell her about the union? He's Icelandic, it seems like he should have known the process?
I'm not sure and that is a great question.
to your last point on US voting - yeah many of us voted early-- if it's available in our state - and this time people have turned out in record numbers to the polls as you probably already know. (I went to the polls about a week and a half ago so I know my vote went though... at the polls. )
anyhow - all American abroad - please, remember to vote for your Senators and Congressman as well b/c without your vote there, the president is stuck with the opposing party and getting no laws passed - That's what happened with Obama.
Additionally, Trump would've been impeached and REMOVED as you probably know, if the the Senate were Democrat majority at the time--
Amy Coney-Barrett only got confirmed by about 4 Senate votes over a stalemate (though overall she seems to really know the law- hopefully--- she will be fair and unbiased b/c now people feel exposed to discrimination, bias and all the policies that her party supports including women having reproductive authority over their own bodies.) Needless to say US voting from overseas citizens is super important as well. Great interview! thank you!
Whenever she (Mosty) said "slack" I guess she meant "flak."
Yes, I think so too.
Alþings Iceland?
😂
how many immigrants learn Icelandic? Would lack of ability to learn Icelandic (a skill) be part of the reason for lack of job opportunities facing some? If people move to a country they need to learn the language of that country, it's a skill as well as respect for the country.
She makes me wonder how is new years like there.
But icelandic Christmas Eve sounds like Caribbean style: dressy all out party
On NYE fireworks are going off around the country. It’s an amazing sight to witness.
Girl, you look like Kandi Burrus. For a minute there, I thought you were her. Good interview. 👍
😂 thanks!
And some day down the road heritage will be just A myth, like Odin, and Thor.
Glæsilegt.
Takk 😊
I think that the Scandinavian way of teaching could benefit American schools such as gymnasie (which has nothing to do with athletics) and Jante Law. I could see how they would be reluctant to have an American running things. Take your Seattle and Portland politics and go home.
What do you mean by: “Take your Seattle and Portland politics and go home.”?
Wow this comment was uncalled for. This is a fantastic channel and both of these women are accomplished role models.
@@Eyezofdarkfire I'm saying that these peaceful protests were uncalled for as well as the war against the police. They only helped to get Trump re-elected. France is re-thinking their Islamic crisis and Norway is getting tired of Brussels pushing them around. Not even in the EU.
Scandinavian way? I don't think the way of teaching is the same in the Nordic countries. I think the Finish school system (considerably better) is quite different from the Icelandic one
@@smolville Trump was not re-elected. Biden won the election and will be president in January 2021.
Virkilega skemmtilegt og fróðlegt viðtal.
Takk kærlega fyrir. 😊
Interesting program but has a person who lives in the USA, I truly like the man in the White House.
how is george soros pension treating you? pays good i bet.