Time just flies by: Lesson three.

As we knew we were going to talk about the video we watched last time, the one presenting metaphors. We were supposed to write down what we remembered and then to underline words or sentences we weren't happy with in our texts. And then to discuss in our own groups, which was nice as always. In our group we had different memories about the video. I understood that I remember the funny examples and things I recognized from before. The lecturer in the video talked about Elvis Presley, "The king of metaphors", and showed some examples from Presley's songs. I remember the lecturer talking about Presley since it was a surprise to me; why would there be things told about Presley in a video about metaphors?

The definition for metaphor that I remember from the video is the easy definition: "giving a name for something else". Example: X = Y.

After these discussions we started, to my surprise, the group discussions. We were shuffled as groups (it's nice to talk to new people but then again I like the group I'm used to) and we had a group leader presenting a subject. In my group the topic was mandatory Swedish (pakkoruotsi), which is an issue that has been in the media for a while. In the group I represented someone who has always went to a swedish-speaking school, so I've never really chosen whether to study the language or not. In the group we talked about the opportunities you have when you know Swedish, how much each of us has used the language and so on. It was interesting to talk about this topic even though I've heard about the question a lot.

After the class I had a really good feeling. I was happy talking in English about different subjects and felt more secure than the first lecture. I stumbled up on some words but mainly it went well and I was happy with my performance. The happy feeling actually made my rest of the day really good so it was a great day on the whole :)

Good night!