We were thirty miles up a fjord in the town of Akureyri, and after Jaja and I discovered there was a superb school system, we enrolled Chris and Holly.
Some names have five different spellings.
They'd all sit in the cabin during blizzards cracking jokes and all Jaja and I could hope was that the jokes weren't about us. Most Icelandic kids actually knew some English due to the preponderance of cartoons from the States, English speaking videos, and computer related things. Our books were exotic to them and they enjoyed thumbing through our collection. Chris and Holly's best friend, Maria, picked up English from them and in no time they were communicating freely in Ice-English. To help with her reading, Holly gave Maria 'One Fish, Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss, and they had great fun reading it out loud.