{"id":159,"date":"2009-11-12T12:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T19:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/?p=159"},"modified":"2009-11-12T12:32:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T19:32:58","slug":"you-cant-pass-the-fifth-grade-until-you-can-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/you-cant-pass-the-fifth-grade-until-you-can-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can’t Pass the Fifth Grade until You Can Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n \"Photo\n
Photo courtesy of Tor Benson<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

Tor Benson<\/a> has 21 things to love about inimitable Iceland.\u00a0 OSU students can find their own this summer by attending the Iceland: Civilization and Sustainability program.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Every McDonalds in Iceland closed<\/a><\/p>\n

2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Highest number of books published and sold per capita — with one in ten Icelanders writing a book in their lifetime.<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 21 HOURS of daylight in Reykjavik and 23 in northern Iceland on the<\/p>\n

longest day of the year.<\/p>\n

4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Northern Lights (aurora borealis )-in the winter<\/p>\n

5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Blue Lagoon<\/p>\n

6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Three Miss World titleholders call Iceland home<\/p>\n

7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Two multi-time winners of “World’s Strongest Man”<\/p>\n

8)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All Icelanders speak Icelandic, Danish, and English fluently<\/p>\n

9)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According The Human Development Index Iceland is the most gender-equal country <\/a>in the world<\/p>\n

10)\u00a0\u00a0 No standing army- “Our only army is the Salvation Army”<\/p>\n

11)\u00a0\u00a0 Northern-most capital<\/a> in the world<\/p>\n

12)\u00a0\u00a0 Life expectancy of 81, which is three years longer than the US.<\/p>\n

13)\u00a0\u00a0 70% of Iceland’s energy comes from renewable resources-80% of<\/p>\n

Icelandic homes are geothermal heated<\/p>\n

14)\u00a0\u00a0 Three Hydrogen-powered buses in Reykjavik and public hydrogen filling stations<\/p>\n

\n \"Photo\n
Photo courtesy of David Noakes<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

15)\u00a0\u00a0 Telephone book lists by first name<\/a><\/p>\n

16)\u00a0\u00a0 Iceland has a list of 1500 names that people must choose from to<\/p>\n

name their children-or petition the government to approve a name.<\/p>\n

17)\u00a0\u00a0 A variety of dairy products including Skyr- sorta like thick<\/p>\n

yogurt only much better, and flavored yogurt that they put on cereal.<\/p>\n

18)\u00a0\u00a0 Nightclubs are open until 6 A.M.<\/p>\n

19)\u00a0\u00a0 Europe’s largest glacier<\/a> covers 8% of Iceland, and glaciers cover<\/p>\n

a total of 11%<\/p>\n

20)\u00a0\u00a0 You can’t pass fifth grade until you can swim<\/p>\n

21)\u00a0\u00a0 Licorice-Iceland’s unofficial candy<\/p>\n

\n \"Reykjavik\n
Reykjavik Skyline, photo courtesy of Tor Benson<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tor Benson has 21 things to love about inimitable Iceland.\u00a0 OSU students can find their own this summer by attending the Iceland: Civilization and Sustainability program. 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Every McDonalds in Iceland closed 2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Highest number of books published and sold per capita — with one in ten Icelanders writing a book in their lifetime. 3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1163954,1163946],"tags":[1284,1391,1046,1206],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iceland","category-study-abroad","tag-iceland","tag-list","tag-study-abroad","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}