Are We a Small and Happy Country?

Hi, my name is Hildur and I am in Kvennaskólinn í Reykjavík. Life on Iceland is not really different from life on other places in the world. Well not much anyway. I live in Reykjavík which is the capital of Iceland but it is really small compared to other capitals in the world. We are about 150-200.000 in Reykjavik and the closest environment.

Icelandic people are known to be peaceful, and because of that and the fact we are such a small country we do not have an army. Instead we are part of NATO; we actually are not doing much in this union because we have no army so we use money to help other people. Iceland is one of the richest countries in the world. Most Icelandic families have at least two cars, a house or an apartment, and some of them have a summer house. People in Iceland like spending money in the malls, even though there are only two malls here and most people here goes at least once in a month to buy clothes, and some even every other day. I don't go shopping as often as my friends but I always go with them just for fun. I actually like dancing like many people in Iceland and I used to be in one of the best dance school in Iceland or JSB. I practiced dance for seven years but I quit last semester.