I've been thinking about my rusty english and the reasons for it. Most obviously, I don't really have a change to use it daily. Just to speak and turn my mind in the english language is something that drows up energy and it dosn't happen instantly. As everytime that I speak in english, my mind switches in that language. In a long run it's a good thing, but when in Finnish environment, there is a constant need to use both languages. And the switching must take it's toll on my english skills.
Then there is the second reason that I've just found out. I've found out that my english tends to be a bit worse when there are native english speakers in the conversation. It could be that I get subconsciously nervous about the whole matter. I start to think how to say it and what is the best way to sound clever in their native tongue.
It happened in London where I attended the training course with my company and and it has happened few times on JD events. My mind tries to think before hand what to say and how to pronounce it and actually forgets that my english is actually rather good. It's a weird situtation and will need to work on that. I'm not really a shy person so it dosn't have an effect in the matter, so it must be the nervousness.
Kind of weird actually.. I forget how to speak fluent english, but then again my mind really is like that. It could be a normal stress reaction when your mind concentrates on other things. When you start to think how to do a thing that comes natural, things usually end up the wrong way. Will try to think less and speak more in the future :P
Day trip to Hanko was a small success. The weather was absolutely marvelous, as I couldn't have wished for better weather. There was a mild breeze from the sea, but it was just there to keep the air moving. As the sun was actually really hot. My face certainly got it's share of the sun and I'm expecting to have a nice tan for tomorrow.
The ppl were really nice and friendly and wouldn't mind going on a road trip with again some other time. Maybe I will as Porvoo was mentioned as a place that some ppl would like to go, but will have to think about it a bit more.
Hanko itself was nice and atleast for me the whole place had a certain atmosphere. It had a speely feel to it and I could actually feel the place waiting for all the summer tourists. In a way it felt a bit sad as the whole town is alive only during the short summer months. Hanko felt small or almost tiny, a lot quieter than the time I used to live there. Can't tell if that's the fact but today it sertainly felt like that.
Hmm.. the ice creams were even bigger than I remembered. They were actually huge. And I'm pretty sure that it's actually not able to have a larger ice cream ball on a normal size cone. But it was good or actually it was even better than good, it was superb.
Everything worked out nice. I'm so glad that the whole trip turned out nice and hopefully everybody had as much fun than I did.
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