My English is getting worse and worse. It may not seem like it through these blog posts, but keep in mind that I have time to write these and a spell checker. As my Norwegian gets better my English gets worse. It is hard for me to speak English for long periods of time now. Even when I was Skypeing my sister for a matter of 10 minutes I managed to begin to speak Norwegian, until she told me she had absolutely no idea what I was saying. I would not say I am fluent in Norwegian, but I can manage to communicate. I speak almost only Norwegian now, with some English words or phrases thrown in when I have no idea what something is in Norwegian. Also, when speaking to the Canadian exchange student when I say one thing in Norwegian it is hard to automatically go back to English, so I begin to speak Norwegian with her and she just looks at me and says "I don't understand..." For instance when I say a town name in Norwegian, i begin to think in Norwegian and speak in Norwegian. Now just about everyone in Norway can speak Norwegian (obviously), but when I am talking to someone that can't it makes it very difficult. But, now I kind of get a view of what I was like when I first came, when I understood absolutely nothing. I am so glad I understand almost everything now... :-)
I did have my first dream in Norwegian last night! I was so excited. I didn't realize that it was actually in Norwegian until 2 hours later when I thought back on it. It was not a very interesting dream, it was just about art class and school, but I spoke Norwegian in my dream. It was the best day of my life!!!
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| Me on a walk, looking over the Sandefjord Fjord. A view I will never get sick of. |
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