Lögberg-Heimskringla - 15.04.2013, Page 11

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I fell in love with Canada when I was 25 years old. I was shy and a little bit
timid of the world at that time
but I have always had a thirst to
expand my vision and challenge
my point of view. So, I decided
to throw myself in the deep
end and embark on a journey.
Now, six years later, I consider
Canada my second home and
count the days until I return.
I always visit my family
in Riverton, Manitoba.
Riverton is a tiny quiet little
town with the best of people.
The quiet is what I like and I
spend my days just strolling
around the beautiful prairie. I
am reminded, with its never-
ending horizon, that the road is
endless and it encourages me
to keep on walking forward. I
regard Riverton as my place of
healing, where I fine tune my
balance and regain my energy.
For me, it’s a special place
and finally after many years of
telling my family and friends
about my oasis, I took my
mother over there. After four
days in the midst of the prairie
she turned to me and said “I
understand now.”
I really like the fact that
I can disappear in my oasis
and keep to myself and my
thoughts, surrounded by the
warm embrace, generosity
and kindness of my Canadian
friends and family. However,
a few years back, an event led
to the end of my disappearance
and solitude. This is what
happened.
It was a beautiful, sunny,
quiet day in Riverton and I
was getting ready to cut the
grass. I put on my shorts and a
bikini top, my cowboy hat,my
Ipod and my sunglasses and
headed out confident and ready
to embrace the day. I had been
cutting the grass for a while and
was at the end of the road just by
the highway, when I saw a car
passing by. I thought nothing of
it and when the driver honked
his horn and waved, I returned
his wave in the same manner.
“Oh how I love Canadians,”
I thought. Rural hospitality is
the best – always so nice and
friendly. Another car passed by
with another honk and a wave,
which again I returned with
a smile. A couple of minutes
later a pickup truck drove by,
filled with construction workers
waving, honking, smiling and
yelling something out which I
couldn‘t hear, seeing that I had
my Ipod on. But, I smiled and
grinned on the inside, seeing
that I had just turned 30 and
thought my better years were
behind me.“I still have it,” I
thought, and kept grinning.
Moments later they passed
again, honked like crazy and
yelled something I still couldn’t
make out.
And then it struck me – a
breeze, and I looked down. At
some point my bikini top had
come undone and apparently I
had been cutting the grass like
a very free-spirited individual
for a while.
I have never felt more
embarrassed in my life. I ran
into the house, down to the
basement, under the covers
and remained there for the rest
of the day. When the height
of embarrassment went down,
I told my family about my
incident and man, did they ever
laugh. However, to rescue the
remains of my honour, I was
fired from grass cutting duties
on the spot and was forbidden
to even get near the end of the
road unless I had a hoodie on.
Time passed and em-
barrassment turned into
laughter. I was looking forward
to being reunited with my
family in Riverton this summer.
Well, that was until my cousin
called and told me that one of
her friends had asked when
that foreign chick was coming
back, and at what time I would
be cutting the grass.
An Icelander’s indecent exposure in Canada
Hrafnhildur Sigmarsdóttir
Rekjavík, Iceland
I returned his
wave in the same
manner. “Oh how
I love Canadians,” I
thought.
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