My New Norwegian Home

This past Sunday was the premier for season 3 Alt for Norge! In English the translation is 'All for Norway.' The show is about 12 Americans with Norwegian heritage coming to Norway and learning the culture of their ancestors. The reality show has them competing in various tasks somehow dealing with Norwegian culture or history. The winner over the course of 12 weeks wins $50,000 and they get to meet their living relatives in Norway. America has about the same amount of Norwegian-Americans as there are actual ethnic Norwegians in Norway.  Norwegian Americans I love the show, but I wish it were available for Americans to watch... free. It is available for Americans, but at a price.  How Americans Can Watch Alt for Norge For those curious, here's t he season premier for the show  and here's a peek at the next episode s neak peek at the next episode. For me, it's just fun to watch other Americans and what they think about Norway. Of course the show emphasizes th...

I've never quite realized how diverse and especially unique America really is until I met Arild and started talking to him about ancestry. I've always been so used to hearing people say something like, "Oh I'm 1/4 German, 1/16 African- American, 1/8 Native American, 1/8 Latino decent and 1/32 Irish. As for the rest I'm not so sure, but I am 100% American." My closest ancestry is Swiss (my great-great-great grandparents came to America and were orchard farmers) and French (from my understanding this individual and his brother were adopted by an American couple as children). Even further back, there is Native American ancestry on both my parents sides (Cherokee on my father's and Blackfoot on my mother's), German and Dutch and English on my mother's, Irish and English on my father's side. If there's any other mixture of nationalities in there, which I'm sure there is, I really have no idea what or who they were. I've once traced s...