It's Thursday!
In Iceland, a nickname for Kristján is Stjáni and I got called that by my friends (and some of my old friends still call me that). In 1987, however, I went to America to be an exchange student for a year. Just before I arrived, one of the sons in the family was talking to his friend about my arrival. And the friend asked about my name. They had a hard time pronouncing my last name and then the friend said: "sounds like the author
Hans Christian Andersen!" So from then on, I was called Hans - the whole year I stayed there. This was a small town and even to this day, when I go and visit, people in that town call me Hans. Most of them don't even know my real name :)
So, what nickname do people call you?
Let’s make it a great Thursday!
KGM
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