Sunday, November 1, 2009

A Little Update

Fika was fun, and afterward I went with Julia (Canadian Exchanger) back to her hotel and had dinner with her and her host sister. That was really cool.
After that I had to walk home from the last bus stop in the dark dark of Djurgården. Of course I chose the route with the least houses and it cut through a wooded area, but it was well lit and I made it home alive. :P
Ralf has been missing for more than 24 hours now, Anna got a phone call from a women who said she found Ralf playing around Rosendals Slott, which is right next to the house. Anna told her it was okay and that the cat lives there, but now Ralf hasn't come home yet. I hope the woman didn't take Ralf. :P
Yesterday I had fika with Annika (Anna's friend who is staying in the house with me) and her mother, it was really nice and we walked around a little. Last night I went to work with Annika at Göta Lejon, a theater in Södermalm (southern district of Stockholm?), she was selling and dealing with the ticket issues. People kept trying to ask me questions, I just looked at them wide eyed and dumb! :P At 10 we watched RAW comedy club perform, it was nice I actually got a few of the jokes and then there was a Canadian comedian as well so I got some English. It was a lot of fun, and I'm glad I went and tried. It's a lot different than going to school, because at school I will just zone out really fast because I have been doing that since the beginning, but with the comedy show I wanted to know what they were saying so I was really listening.
Now some words are starting to come without me translating them in my head, that is nice because now the words just mean what they mean and they don't mean the English meaning to me anymore. I don't know if that makes sense but it is strange learning a language but it was a nice realization when some words just flow... Not all, I still have a long way to go and I'm not even really speaking but it is getting a bit easier I think. I'm on the right track. :)
Tonight I have badminton, I'm excited, I haven't been in two weeks, because I was sick two weeks ago and then last week I got caught up baking cookies with Charlotte (my half American friend from school :P). It is really nice to have badminton, it's fun and I am getting better. Maybe after this is over I can try to join a club or something. This is only klubbträning, it's not an actual club. It goes on until 13 Dec. so maybe by the end of it I will be good enough for a real club. :P
School starts back up tomorrow, no more höstlov, what a shame. :P

2 comments:

  1. It sounds like more and more you are starting to think in Swedish, and that is what it takes to really learn the language well. COOL! It is working. ;-)

    Jag älskar dig,

    Pappa

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  2. Are you dreaming in Swedish yet? Jen told me that when she started 'thinking' in French, she also started 'dreaming' in French. If you are NOT like your papa, you MAY remember your dreams and you will know. :)

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