Another day in school
Tomorrow morning we are taking a plane for a weekend trip to London. We are not only there to have some time away from everything, but also to meet my best friend Petra who moved to London three years ago. By now Petra is in love with a scottish boy and they live together in London. Cute as they are, they offered us their spare room for the weekend.
We met her boyfriend Robert for the first time in August 2009. Petra brought him along for the wedding and they stayed with us over the weekend. Even if I sometimes find it hard to understand his thick accent, I love to hear Robert speak! I am so into the british accent, especially the one spoken in the North of England, where Robert grew up. But even if I kind of love this guy and really like talking to him, my shyness takes over as always. I have tried so hard to talk english to Petra last time, but I always found myself switching back to german after a few minutes.
I absolutely adore Petra’s english, which by now sounds perfect and could be mistaken for a british person’s talk. I am very curious, if I will ever be able to talk english as fluent and self-confident the way Petra does. I will definitely try to get my act together, forget my doubts and just talk english this weekend. I know that I need all practice I can get – and who would be a better person to practice with than my best friend and her british boyfriend?
Perhaps one day we will visit those guys and be mistaken for American folks in London. But till than I am happy to be recognized as a German with good english skills.
