The English post about what I'm actually doing in the Faroe Islands

Simply put, I'm the intern at the Nordic House in Tórshavn. The Nordic House is a part of Nordisk Ministerråd - which, uhm, is the Nordic council of Ministers and deals with politics, education, culture and all other stuff public, which the Nordic countries cooperate on. And those countries are Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Greenland and the Faroes. Sometimes with cooperation a  bit beyond, usually the Baltics and the Scottish isles - depending if we're talkin west or east Nordic.

I'm doing an internship because I'm doing a master in international communication and uni wants us out in real life. The master I'm doing because I didn't really write my philosophy thesis, after which I went to New Zealand where you don't necessarily need a master thesis in philosophy, after which I went to Fiji, where my boyfriend came to see me and we got  married rather impulsively on the beach, after which I went back to New Zealand, after which I moved to Aalborg, Denmark, where the aforementioned boyfriend come husband lives, where I couldn't find a job, which is why we decided that more education might be the answer to that. 

And all that has happened within the last two years. Busy times...

So what I actually do in the Nordic house in Tórshavn is very culture-oriented, they got a new leader last year from Iceland with a background from Visit Reykjavik, and she's getting the place quite busy with lots of things and events going on. 

I'm mainly involved in the youth and children activities, doing cultural communication and education - most of it as the helping hand and inventor of creative ideas. I don't really get my own projects as such  - but I did do activities for families during the autumn holidays, which were really succesful.*

But I do get to help with quite a lot, I've taken part in the Listaleypurin - that's a project getting artist-visits in schools, where I helped plan and coordinate visits and aiding artist around -  this included a lot of excell-files and maps over the Faroes and locating schools to make itineraries. I know now where 90% of all Faroese schools are located...

Right now  we're working on Ung í Føroyum. That's a project for youths 13-19 y/o, who are participating in workshops with artists over the next weekend, doing a big show for the grand finale. There will be air dancing, cartoons, costume creation, music, acting and installations & inventions. I'd be so on to that if I were fifteen - actually I hope I'll have time to take a sneak peek into the work shops.

 What I actually do is lay-outs on posters and letters we send out, keeping in touch with artists, keeping in touch with the kids, ensuring everybody's alright, in the right workshop, have all info, do the decorating, getting everybody's art work for the exhibition, getting riders and playlists and having the technical staff  set up a stage and all these little things, that make up quite a lot when you put them together.

And in the end of November there's a literature festival, and I'm again intended to be the go-to person, for whenever and whatever our visiting writers need something, who also make the Nordic House look literatury and book-appealing. And a gazillion other things more or less vaguely related to communication.

I'll be the intern until Christmas, and then I'll be back during the spring, writing my master thesis for/with the Nordic house - it will be about creating qualified art and culture events for youth. I might just as well write something useful and hopefully actually finish it, that I'll get a proper adult job.

It's really busy. It's very educational. It's really different from theories and what you think you will be doing when you're in university. It's really fun.

*My professor wrote me back today that my report on the autumn activties was very good, so it's been accepted and I get to continue on the next one. That'll be about methodics.