My summer holidays are approaching slowly and I’ve been thinking I’m almost a year away from the SA fiasco and the aborted moving to Norway. While I was walking to my office I unwittingly started to sum up what I achieve during this second year in Reykjavik and inevitably how my life would have been in Oslo. I have mixed feeling. I don’t regret anything but I feel something is missing. I’m feeling great here, no doubt about that but I keep asking myself how would my life in Norway would have been. Even with the Icelandic economical turmoil, business is good. Life is still amazing here, summer isn’t that bad either (at least June, July seems to start in a a little bit more rough note). So why all those thought?
Of course, socially things can improve. I’m meeting lots of interesting people really but I keep meeting people from the same dynamics or in other term I’m still experiencing difficulties to meet locals. My icelandic is going better but not as a satisfying pace especially because of my lack of training. But what can I do? I’d love to be in a position where I would have no other choice but to speak it. Unfortunately I cannot afford to practice it at work, and my acquaintance are not able to help for the above reason. It’s certainly dishonest but I feel norwegian would have give me less trouble. The best I can do is continue my routine and think about all this again while abroad for my summer break.
