My New Norwegian Home

We had a game night Saturday night and tried out the game Brunost, langrenn og lusekofte. It is a game of questions to determine which player is the most Norwegian at heart. The game consists of a series of questions about how you'd react to a certain situation. Most questions can be answered with a yes or no and you are given positive or negative points depending on the answer. The player with the highest score wins and is deemed most Norwegian at heart.  Some question topics include manners, fashion, music, culture, and just every day norsk life. We had a lot of fun playing the game and the cultural discussions we had. I'd highly recommend it for a game night if anyone is interested in Norwegian culture! And on a side note, I CRUSHED my husband at being Norwegian! ;-) Arild had many negative points and a friend of ours was most Norwegian out of us all. I tied second place with my brother-in-law. 

Watching TV earlier, I noticed some movies are given different titles translated into Norwegian. I believe the movie being advertised on TV was Couples Retreat, but being translated into something different it was something like Trøbbel i paradiset. Translated it would be Trouble in the Paradise - you can see the similarities in the language in that title. All original English speaking movies are still spoken in English with no voice overs, but they are shown in Norwegian subtitles. There is an exception to this with children's movies and TV programs which do have Norwegian voice overs. I asked Arild why some movie titles are in English, some are translated, and some are translated into names completely different. He said he really didn't know and thought of a coffee table book he has which has a list of the most off-titled movie translations. He pulled out Typisk Norsk from under the coffee table and started reading these to me: I'll do the correct English title, t...