Merry Christmas All! These past few days in Germany have been really, really nice. Elisabeth’s house is so fun with Gesa, Christian, Karen, Matti and Linnea around. (Linnea is Karen’s host sister from when she spent a year in Sweden.) Similar to Italy, I spend much of the time not really sure what they are saying, but thanks to Annalu and Steph’s lessons I can understand words here and there. Karen and Linnea have the upper hand because they can understand all three of the languages floating around this household: English, German and Swedish. I suppose I could start speaking Spanish, but I would just be talking to myself, so, I think I will just try to understand their German; I’m afraid Swedish may be a little far off for me. Everyone speaks impeccable English though.
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