just moved back to Norway 

Kristin Fagerback, a Norwegian-American who grew up moving between South Korea, Dubai, and Hawaii, moved back to Norway after years of traveling to nearly 100 countries. She's tired of constant travel and wants to save money, but feels like a foreigner in her own country. She's never tried sheep's head stew or other traditional Norwegian food and is asking viewers what she should actually do there.
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So it's a Sunday afternoon here in Norway, and I just moved back to Norway recently from being more like on the nomadic side. So I'm Norwegian-American, and yeah, a couple months ago, a few months ago, I moved back to Norway. I just like Like, I've almost traveled to 100 countries, and I was just getting like a little bit tired of traveling, and I wanted to stack up some more cash. And I was like, yeah, I'll go back to one of the motherlands, which is, uh, you know, economically nice, and come here, stack some cash, and, um, be based in Europe for a little bit. And Yeah, it's kind of cool being back here in Norway. I grew up going to 13 different schools, K through 12, and, um, if you know that a little bit about my story, then I lived in Norway a little bit, like for a second, like maybe for a month. I went to school in Norway growing up, but I did live in Norway a little bit on and off other parts of my life. Um, but it's interesting coming back here like established as an adult. Uh, I didn't want to live in this country for many years, even though I'm a citizen and my heritage is from this country, um, because I just thought it was too boring here. And I don't know, like, I just got here, so we'll see if it's boring or not. I'm just getting my roots down here, and so far, honestly, it is boring. But yeah, we'll see in 6 months if the tables have turned and it ends up not being boring. Um, but yeah, I went to go live in South Korea. Um, well, I got a job there, internship, and then a job there after college. So that was just much more exciting for me. Like, it's a totally different, um, what do you call it, like alphabet, right? And then I went to go live in Dubai and Hawaii and stuff. So those were just more exciting places than coming here, which is just like my heritage and Just it felt like coming here. It's like you know. I mean, it's home in a sense, but at the same time, I feel like a foreigner in like my quote unquote motherland because things are so foreign to me. Like one of my colleagues was just explaining to me about some like traditional Norwegian food with sheep's head and some stew or something, and I was. I was like, I have no idea what that is. And then my colleague was like, oh, you should travel around Norway. And I was like, I have traveled around Norway a lot. Like, I've been everywhere just with my relatives. And I guess they just didn't feed me that because when I go see relatives in other parts of Norway, they like bake me like American food, like pizza or something like that. I don't know if they're just thinking like, oh, they don't want me to try like the tubed caviar or something weird. But I haven't tried actually that much Norwegian food and— What's your favorite Norwegian food? I grew up with my mom being an immigrant. I grew up like an immigrant family in the States, but she didn't. She made like maybe like a couple Norwegian dishes, but I didn't get. She didn't make like all these other things like sheep and whatever that they're talking about here. So I'm kind of excited. Like if you know someone wants to introduce that to me here because yeah, like my mom and dad aren't. this country. I have relatives here, but— and yeah, like, my siblings aren't here in this country. So, um, I'm thankful to have relatives, but if I can just figure out how to like explore the Norwegian culture a little bit more for however much longer I'll be living here, um, yeah, that would be great. If you have any tips for me on what to discover in Norway, rediscovering this country, my motherland I kind of feel like that TV show Alt for Norge, where like the American comes to Norway to discover themselves. I kind of feel like that. But yeah, if you have any tips for me, that'd be great.










