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 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.