My View About Iceland

To be perfectly honest then I must say that my life hasn’t changed that much over the money problem since I never had any money. But don’t get me wrong, I live a pretty normal life. I go to school, I work my ass off to get money but when I get the money I usually spend it all on the day after.

I live in Reykjavík (the capital of iceland) and I find nothing special about iceland since I have lived here for 17 years so its pretty normal, I don’t see what you other people are seeing about us. But no matter how you look at it, we always seem to manage out of it and just keep on surviving. Some people here in iceland think this is acctually good for the people here but since I never listen to them then I cant give you the answer to “Why they think that way” but I think its funny and many people that don’t even live here are making too much of a deal out of it. Even the British made a terrorist threat against us and I can't see the point in that since us normal people have done nothing wrong and you shouldn’t just put people in the category for something the government did. I think that people should just come here and see for themselves how life in iceland really is…

We are not in a good situation. I admit that. But we are not dying because of the money problem. When I hear the word “Iceland” I think about a beautiful land that looks like the first day of creation, while other people that don’t even live here think about Iceland they think about people that live in little igloos and have no fire and have seals as pets or something and that is just the completely the wrong image for the nation since its not like us at all. I mean SUUURE we do have snow alot but that doesn't mean that we are any better at resisting it or making snowballs than other people do. There is nothing more special about us than you are, so stop labeling us as terrorist or little snowmen that eat seals with sporks and butterknifes.


Well this is my view about iceland and I think that people are just making to big of a deal about the stuff that is going on here. But things haven’t changed a bit here…my dad is going to England in November (if the terrorist laws are taken back) and he was even planning to buy me a car at the end of the month and my mom is always talking about how “poor” we are but she always exaggerating.

But things here are still pretty normal and the only bad thing that is going on is that the prices are going up but our paychecks are going up also so things are not that bad but people are making big things out of little nibblets.
Just come over here and see for yourselves how things are going, you might be surprised.

Best Regards from the Icelanders and our nifty little snowmen.

(Writen by: Óli Karló Steinsson)