Coffeeeeee °,..,°

I'm sort of proud of myself today!

I did not have any classses today so I used the day to get some things done I've been wanting to do for a while now. These include:
- cleaning my room
- change bedlinen
- buy water
- buy a coffeemaker and coffee
- recharge my mobile phone
- look for a new nice skirt.

So after I had lunch I went into the towncenter and first went to a Kioski, in order to get some money loaded to my mobile phone. Usually I greet the person at the counter in Finnish ("moi!") and then switch to English. Today, however, which makes me incredibly proud, I managed to say what I wanted in Finnish! I'm pretty sure that I made some grammar-mistakes or used a wrong word but the young woman did not react like "Ah, a foreigner, I better talk English to her because she does not understand my language" (usually Finns are like that), instead she continued asking for details in Finnish.

When I went to some clothing-stores to look for a nice skirt, some salespersons approached me, talking only Finnish with me.
After almost two months it anyhow feels like I'm ready for acculturisation, finally! I'm one step closer to my goal (becoming a Finn), because I start to rather speak Finnish than English when dealing with salespersons. And one other thing happens more and more often: When I'm talking with a Finnish person (usually in English), I suddenly forget English words which are then replaced by Finnish ones. Like "Last week I've been at ... uh ... keskusta together with a friend and we went to get some ... jäätelö. But we found out that it was too ... kallis...". Sort of. Finnish people can at least understand that. But I'm glad that I produce more and more full Finnish sentences instead.

Also, I have my coffeemaker now. Did you actually know that Finns are the people who drink most coffee in the whole world? Not the Italians, no, the Finns! I find this pretty remarkable. Finnish people are coffee-junkies. And now I have the possibility to become one, too, again. (I sometimes really missed my coffeemaker back home in Germany.)

However, I was not able yet to fill one part of my today's agenda: To clean up. I will probably do that tomorrow. Now first, I need to make the coffeemaker ready to go for tomorrow morning.