15.03.2015

At work things are pretty much still the same. There isn't that much work, but there isn't really much that anyone can do about it. I've mentioned it to Almond and they can't move me anywhere since they have other students that need places to work too. But it's fine. The people at Recycling Plymouth are nice and I can just chat with them to pass time. There is this guy named Martin who has worked with computers for a couple decades now and he's always explaining new things to me. Besides there is only a couple weeks left, I think I can manage here.
So you would think that I have plenty of freetime to do other things, which I actually do have but I have to admit that I haven't really done much with my freetime here. I think it's because I don't know anyone here, I'm not as drawn to do things alone. On that note, people have been really surprised when I tell them that I travelled here all by myself.

My attempt to liven up the blog with a picture.

I've walked around the city just looking at sights like the Smeaton's Tower and the beautiful view that comes with it (in the picture).
I went to the cinema and at first it was a bit weird to watch a movie without subtitles, even though I could understand everything they were saying it did need a bit of getting used to to not look at the bottom of the screen all the time.
The language hasn't really been a problem anywhere else either. Except on the first day of work when I was told that work starts at half nine. My Finnish brain automatically thought it would be 8:30 since he didn't say half PAST nine. Well, turned out he did mean 9:30 so I was there an hour early.
I don't feel that my English has improved by that much. It was pretty good to begin with and even though my pronunciation of things might not be the greatest, people can still understand me and I think that's the ultimate goal of a language. To understand each other.