In English

Hello again!
Today I'm doing something a little bit different. Few people have asked if I could do a blog post in English and of course I can! I was planning to write about my last language course but I want to film a video about that. So I'll tell you some things about my EF experience and some little things about my language courses. So let's get started!

So I came back from my first ever language trip about two years ago. That trip was something else if I would say. That trip made me think if I want to be an ambassador or was that my first and last trip with EF. Well as you may see I contacted EF and now I have been an ambassador more than two years! And to be honest I am so glad I made that decision because of all of these things I have seen and done with EF.

My first trip wasn't that successful and it had a lot of breaking points. I wasn't that happy with that trip and I was really sceptic about my second trip with EF because I didn't want to be disappointed again. But this time I had amazing time in Brighton and two weeks were way too short time for me. Before I even fly back to Finland I knew that I will come back next year and I don't care what it takes me to do that. And it took a lot of writing and planning and time but I made it. I went back to Brighton this year and this time I stayed four weeks. I was so happy and I cried so much when I had to leave my host family. These two language courses have taught me so much. I am better in English and I have confident to speak this language. Brighton showed me that finnish is not the language I want to speak in the future every day. I actually want to go to study in Brighton as well. I am so exited about my future and I really hope that some day I will have a change to live in Brighton and maybe even have a job in there.

People have been asking about my English a lot and I have always said that I am not actually that good. And my first trip with EF was horrific because I didn't speak English at all. My English was so bad and I don't even know how I made my way thru that trip. When I went to Brighton first time I tought that my English is really good even tho it wasn't. My level was B2.2 and I think it was a little bit too hard for me that time. Well I learned a lot and I kept practicing (read: kept watching Netflix) and even tho my English teacher tried to put me down and told me several times that I can't speak English and I shouldn't spend any money for another language course because it would be only waste of money. Well..I went to Brighton again and my level was C2.3 which is the highest level you can be in. I didn't actually believe it first because I thought that my level would be something like C1.2 or something around that.

My last course was so good and I am so happy that i decided to go. I have been thinking if I want to go one more time or was those three courses my time with EF. Kind of I would really love to go one more time because EF have been so nice to me and my last tho courses have been so amazing and I will remember those forever. But I have to thing about my future and my plans for next summer. What so ever I am so thankful and I really hope that every person who decide to take a step and go somewhere with EF would have same kind of experiment as I have had. I will do some ambassador stuff one more year at least and next year I might stop doing this or then I will do one more year,But everything will be more clear when I know more about my future plans.

Last thing I want to say is that my English is not perfect and I do a lot of grammar mistakes. But I am quite happy with my skills right now because being honest I have no idea where I have learned all of this in so little time. So I would like to apologize about all of my mistakes :) !! See ya all soon

Lisa-Marie