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…