SINGLES SEARCHING FOR LOVE--NORWEGIAN STYLE

Recently,
a Norwegian television company, Nordisk Film TV, was in Minneapolis, Seattle
and San Francisco holding auditions for a Norwegian version of The
Bachelorette/Bachelor. They were taking email entries from American singles of
Norwegian descendants who live in these cities and then holding auditions. Once
the auditions are over they will choose four singles. These singles will get to
choose eight Norwegian singles to meet. Then the fun begins. The Norwegian
singles will be flown to the U.S. to go on dates in the single's hometowns and
try to find true love. The singles will be voted off one by one. This show
should be interesting and I can’t wait to watch it, since it has a different
twist with the aspect of using available singles from Norway. Oh, to be younger
so I could have auditioned! When I was in high school, I wanted to marry a
Norwegian guy, but that didn’t happen. I think part of the problem, even back
then, is Norway is a different country. This will be an obstacle for this show
also. It is one thing to visit another country and absolutely love it, but to actually
move there is another whole thing. Even with our mobile world, one person’s
family will miss out on a lot of events in their son or daughter’s lives. This
show may be better suited to the Boomer generation’s divorced population who
has already raised families and are now free to come and go as they please.
Living half the time in each country would be an option for them. It will be a
hard decision for these young people to make. I look forward to finding out the
results of this show once it airs. A huge factor in favor of relocating to
Norway is they have one of the highest standards of living and have been voted
the best place in the world to live. The people of Norway have all been able to
profit from the country’s vast number of oil rigs off their western coast. It
is said though, “If two people are really in love, nothing can keep them
apart.”

We’ll see if an ocean will…