“Where are the food posts?” you say. Or maybe not. But anyway. I have been baking, and have made apple pie and cookies since making the strudel, but I keep eating things faster than I can remember to take pictures of them. I will try to fix that soon. But there are now no cookies or tartelettes left.
For a while I’ve been aware that I’m very shy about speaking Korean with people who speak English well, but am not shy if people don’t speak much English. I know it’s usual for multilingual conversations to drift towards the strongest common language, but that still doesn’t explain the shyness.
So recently I think I figured it out, or at least came up with a plausible theory. I think it’s an empathy thing. I know a lot of the Koreans I know who don’t speak English as well are shy about their English, so I think it might be that. There are also some exceptions. My coteacher speaks English fairly well, definitely better than my Korean, but I’m not shy speaking with her because she’s so encouraging and she really helps me learn. All the time. Also, I’m sometimes shy to start speaking Korean with people who I’ve been used to speaking to in English (from when my Korean sucked more), but I think that’s just awkwardness of switching the already established lingua franca. Same way it’s weird for me to speak French with people who I met in an English context/environment, but weird for me to speak English with people I met in a French context.
Ok, enough Lisa geeking out alone on the blog.
I heard this summer about an awesome event: Arctic Lindy, a swing dance exchange in Iceland. It’s actually a week-long travel/dance thing, so it’s not just pure dancing, and it falls perfectly in the time between the end of the Goteburg exchange and the end of my vacation. Plus I’ll already be in Sweden. But a ticket from Sweden to Iceland apparently costs 500$+, and with the weeklong event cost being 360$, that makes it almost 1000$ for a week (food and accom. included). Ouch! So here’s the debate, PLEASE vote, cause I am waffling between the two very much.
1. Go to Iceland.
When will I manage to find a cheaper time to get to Iceland (seems like an amazing place) than when I’m already in Scandinavia?
I’ll be able to see more than just the inside of a gym/swing dance venue/etc because there is some travelling involved.
Dancing.🙂
2. Tour around the rest of Scandinavia more instead, the part connected to Sweden by land that is much cheaper to travel to than Iceland.
Cheaper!
Also lots of cool places, many options of places to go. I haven’t seen much of Scandinavia at all, despite being in Sweden for a month in 2006 (4 weeks in Herrang, 4 days in Stockholm. Heh).
I dunno. The link to the event is here: http://www.arcticlindy.com/
Let me know! What should I do? Right now it’s at
Go to Iceland: 2
Travel by land: 1
