Over the past week I've been using far too many corners of my brain when it comes to language. During the days, I attend my Finnish class from 9am to 1pm. We speak Finnish and English there. On occasion, we exchange words in German as well, since many of us speak German. In my spare time, I've started tutoring two students privately in English. I spent my down-town thinking of lesson topics and then trying to figure out how to teach these in interesting ways. From time to time, I meet with Mia and teach her French for fun, quite simply because, we have a lot of fun studying French together! We've had two lessons so far and started at the very beginning. Everyone, including myself with Finnish, is progressing nicely.
I have to say, I really am enjoying summer in Finland! It's so far my favourite season and somehow all the space we have seems bigger. This might be because of our balcony which adds an extra few square meters to our living space and also doubles as a breakfast area!
This week I also attended the Kiitos-Ilta [thank you evening] for the EBEN conference I volunteered at in June. We took a church boat from Pyynikki and rowed to Laukontori and back again. Our gracious hosts rented a cottage there and we had a private deck for swimming and sauna for sauna-ing. Later on in the evening, a delicious dinner was served and we enjoyed ourselves immensely! Thank you to everyone!!
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