111 Week 11

[malory rodriguez]

So this week in particular was very interesting. Louise's brother Freddie had came to Richmond for a visit so we invited Freddie to one of our session for dinner. It was kind of hard speaking Swedish in the cellar because of the noise around but we had some decent conversations. Another thing I noticed about myself and I may have already spoken about this but I can't recall. Anyway, when someone starts to speak a foreign language to me I zone out at first because I am so used to hearing all of these languages and not being able to understand them. It takes me a few seconds to realize I am kind of able to understand them and I should be trying to listen to what they are saying. That happened during a few conversations during dinner. I think what also helped is the fact Freddie was really nice about my Swedish. I didn't expect him to be mean or anything but he was really encouraging when I tried to speak to him. I think im always criticizing the way I say things when I speak it is nice to hear a third party tell me I am not the worst Swedish speaker of all time. It was also really fun listening to Louise and Freddie speak back and forth.