IAmA 25 year old guy who works at a gas station in a town with 150 people in the south of Iceland. AMA

What do you do on the weekend?

Are there hot females in kirkudfkffjfjfjfzawefgtrdv?

Do people line up for that 1 hour and stock up?

During the weekends I usually just sit around playing xbox and drink some beer hehe. there a no hot females here haha not during the winter but in the summer there are a few.. I assume you are talking about the liquor store? No they dont stock up but a lot of people come everyday :l

May I use your restroom, or do I have to buy something first?

You may use the restroom, no need to buy anything :P

When you're eating salad, do you use a Bjork?

haha what? I use a fork:P

IAmA 27 year old guy who is in class @ the university of Iceland with 150+ people in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. AMA

p.s. the hot females you are looking for are here (70% of uni students are without penis)

True dat!

Hey can you point on this map of Iceland where you live? http://imgs.sthlmsfinest.com/blogEntryImages/1069983.png

pretty much all over that map!

Do you like Sigur Ros?

Yea i do actually, didn't at first but then I saw them live and loved them after that. When they play in Iceland they always have free concerts.

Were you considered for a role in the supah-smash-hit movie 30 Days of Night?

hahah i laughed when i read this one!

Is your job anything like this icelandic sitcom?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZnsZeR6gD8&sns=em

*first comment on reddit after a year of lurking.

Hahah well no there is no nightshift but we have a lot of regulars here that come every morning and drink coffee, I guess you can make a sitcom out of that!

I feel lucky being the first comment!:D

What is the correct way to pronounce Kirkjubæjarklaustur? I get about five letters in and realize I'm probably doing it wrong. Also, thank you for doing this AmA.

Haha I don't really know how to explain how its pronounced but Kirkju-baejar-klaustur and the ae is said like one letter and also the au.. direct translation to english is Church-town-monastary :P And you are welcome.

can i just say, i visited Iceland this past december and it was the most amazing, beautiful country I have been to. The people there are absolutely beautiful.

I stayed outside of Rekjavick in some cottage in the mountains. Also, Blue Lagoon was heaven on Earth.

Okay, enough gushing. Where is the best hot spring in Iceland??

Thank you! Its very beautiful I agree but i always recommend doing the ring road at summer time, as for the best hot springs I would say that Landmannalaugar is definitely up there.

How cold does it get in the middle of winter there? Being Australian, I'm always intrigued by countries that actually have... seasons. And how warm is it during the summer?

Well it can go down to maybe -10°C, -20°C depending how hard the winter is this year its been very cold.. but summers it can go as high as °25C but usually hangs around °15C

How much do you get paid? How much does it cost you in terms of living expenses there?

I get paid around 1500$ per month and its not very expensive for me to live here as I live for free, my employer has a house for the summer staff and I am staying there but other people that live here have to play a lot of money in electric bills but houses here are much cheaper en rent is cheaper compared to the capital.

What do you think of the possibility that you'll be accepting Canadian currency in the (relatively) near future?

I really don't think that it will happen.. they have talked about the Euro and all this stuff but nothing ever happens, just all talk

Do you live there by choice, and if so, why?

Or do you dream of moving somewhere else, and if so, what do you want to do?

Yeah i live here by choice I came to work here last summer and I was offered to stay during the winter and stay for free so I decided to do that to pay off some bills and stuff and I am definitely not living here another winter haha I am originally from Reykjavík the capital

I'm a 25 year old guy who would still be working at my small town's gas station if I hadn't gotten very ill! Be careful with diesel fuel, and don't smoke cigarettes with it on your hands. (Not because it's combustible, which it is not, but because there is benzine in diesel fuel. Wash your hands!)

All the diesel and gas that is pumped here is self service so I'm rarely in contact with it.. but thanks!

Ertu á N1 þarna hjá þjóðveginum? Man eftir honum frá því ég var þarna í hittífyrra held ég... fékk mér hamborgara, hehe. :)

Kirkjubæjarklaustur er ekkert smá huggulegur staður.

Heheh já ég er þar :P það er kósy að vera hérna en held ég meiki ekki annann vetur!

How has Iceland been after the last McDonalds closed?

its been fine haha another restaurant opened there called Metro and they have some similar hamburgers but with Icelandic meat but its not nearly as good!

How busy does a town of 150 get in the summer? What is the big attraction? If there aren't any good lookin wome around, do you have to wait til summer to get laid?

It gets really busy, constant stream of tourists all day.

I sometimes go to Reykjavik and hook up haha but yeah if I wanna get laid here i will have to wait :/

Do girls in rural Iceland really believe there are Elves roaming the country side and try to have sex with them?

source

oops: nsfw, thanks dr_dom.. where I work there is no nsfw so I be forgetting.:)

Hahaha I don't have a response for that!

How much does Icelandic gasoline cost?

One liter of gasonline(1 US gallon = 3.78541178 liters) is about two dollars.. so its very expensive.

Are Canadians and Icelandic people going to become best friends forever if you adopt our currency?

I really don't think that we will adopt your currency, we can still be friends!

I'm thinking of visiting Iceland later this year. So where do all the hot Icelandic chicks that love American men live?

In Reykjavik for sure, but everybody is always camping around Iceland during the summer so you should definitely take a week or something and go around Iceland, you'll find chicks all over

Ah, camping. A good idea. Maybe I'll just rent a camper van and cruise around.

Yeah its the best thing to do here!

Have you ever seen the show Corner Gas? If not, does this scene seem familiar to you?

Haha I haven't seen it but I think I will watch it now but yeah a lot of people ask me what there is to see here!

Is Reykjavik properly pronounced "RAY-juh-VIC" or "RAKE-juh-VIC" or "RAY-yuh-vik"?

Rake-yah-week.

English pronunciation, dont stop between the hyphens..

week is definitely the best one for vik haha

Its closest to the last one but Rayk-yah-vik is the best one I think.

What was it like for you when Eyjafjallajökull erupted?

I actually didn't live here when that happened but that didn't effect this town so much however the volcanic eruption in Grímsvötn had a huge effect here, ash everywhere and business was slow but that's all cleared up now and we hope for a great summer.

Was there last summer, beautiful place :)

It definitely is a beautiful place =) Love it here during the summer and its okay now but its lonely sometimes hehe

How many condoms do you sell on average in a week during the summer? How about during the winter?

Do frequent fliers look somewhat shy when they come to buy more?

I haven't sold any condoms this winter haha but summer people probably just bring their own :P

Have you tried Hákarl?

If so, are you a viking... ?

I have't actually.. the smell is sooooo bad but I've eaten Sheep testicles and stuff and yeah I'm definitely a viking!!

I was just there last week. Me and the girlfriend were driving the whole ring road (and everyone asked how crazy we were to be doing that at this time). Stopped by the small progressive looking church in town with the old graveyard/remains of another church next to it, but it was closed.

Do you go hiking or drive up on the highlands at all? And how many people are there in the summer (because last week 6 of our 9 guesthouses we were the only guests)?

Edit: Better question though, given how close you are to the volcanoes and are on the plate, how fast would you be driving to get away from there in the event something happened???

Hope you guys had fun. The remains hmm.. We have an old church floor here in town but its not closed at anytime so I'm not really sure what church you are talking about.

I don't really go hiking or go to the highlands but a lot of people here have superjeeps and do this all the time during winter, go up on the glaciers and stuff.

I can tell you that it gets veeery busy here, just in this small area here we have 5 or 6 hotels/guesthouses and they are all pretty much booked up all summer.

What is the most fun thing you have ever done or seen happen in your town? Also is there anything that happend that could only happen in your town?

Hmm the summer here is fantastic when its good and warm weather we go to a waterfall here and jump down it witch is really good fun but I don't think there is anything that could only happen here.

Would you and could you live anywhere else? is this your home town?

I have always(except this past year) and will again go live in Reykjavik the capital, this is not my hometown but my grandfather grew up here and I have some relatives in the area.