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read this thread a while ago and meant to respond but being the procrastinator that i am...
well, to a large degree i have to echo ktspktsp & abaya. integrating here is nigh on impossible. BUT whether or not that is a problem really depends on people. i now have some people here who i can consider good, even close, friends and i have no problems hanging around them but in the more general community, yes, it´s very easy to feel like i´ve just stepped off the plane for the 1st time even having been here over a year. language is definitely a problem. icelandic is an extraordinarily difficult language and chances to practice it are near zero since almost everyone here speaks english so well. more often than not i´ll walk into a shop and communicate in icelandic but as soon as they hear an accent they´ll communicate in english, even if i persist in speaking icelandic. i´ve pretty much ground to a halt with learning the language because of these factors and i really don´t see myself putting much effort from here in especially now that i´m starting to take the idea of leaving much more seriously now. i´ll have to revive this thread in a year or 2 when i´ve made my next home and it´s looking like the netherlands at this stage.
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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?
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