Archive for November, 2005

When I decided to come to the Faroe Islands for a year, I knew that it would be important to try to learn the language. It turns out that there are quite a few other things that I need to learn, as well.
How to walk in the snow. This is a very important […]

My Faroese relatives had their first Thanksgiving Dinner on Saturday. It was hard to decide whom to invite, since I have so many cousins here, so I started with those who had invited me to their homes and came up with a list of many more people than could fit in my small […]

This year I will be celebrating Thanksgiving on Saturday, rather than Thursday. I have invited a few cousins for a traditional American Thanksgiving Dinner, and 24 people will make my little house quite crowded. Fortunately, the manager of the grocery store was able to get some of the traditional American foods for me, […]

This morning I ate breakfast on my “patio” in the morning sun. In September, I bought two folding chairs and a stool for my patio furniture, so I could take them outside when the weather was nice. Today was the first time I used them. I have learned to act quickly when […]

Is the Faroese alphabet the same as the American alphabet?
No, there are some letters in the American alphabet that are not used in Faroese, and they have some letters that we don’t have. The Faroese do not use the American C, Q, W, X, or Z. The additional letters that they use are […]

I have lived most of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I have not lived in a place where it snows in the winter. I am finding the snow in the Faroe Islands beautiful and fascinating, so you will be seeing snow through the eyes of someone who hasn’t seen much […]

On TuesdayI went to Klaksvík, the second largest city in the Faroe Islands with a population of about 5,000 people. To get there, I drove to Leirvík, a small town on the other side of the mountain just south of Fuglafjørður, so I drove through one of the many tunnels in the Faroe Islands. […]

This week has been the week for drekkamunnur. My Faroese-English Dictionary says that “drekkamunnur” means “drop”. My translation is as follows:
Come in and have some coffee or tea along with cakes or cookies or maybe some bread and meat, and let’s talk for a while.
I have been visiting quite a few homes […]

At long last my car is working. It is great to be able to drive again. I picked it up yesterday afternoon. I also bought snow tires and had them put on, so I am set for the winter. To top it off, we had some sun here for a few […]

A few weeks ago I mentioned that I thought my car was fixed, sort of. Well, I was wrong. I am still waiting for my car to be fixed. The first part that arrived from Denmark was the wrong part, so it was sent back, and we all waited for another part […]