My dear Swede...you are disappearing...
I've been with ER for almost a month now. I have been working with customers for about 2,5 weeks. It is great. But now it starts to get stressful. I like it.
It is a great team. But I really do miss being in the Nordic team. They barely speak to me anymore. It is almost like "Erika is ER now, we mustn't speak with her", which is quite sad. But I try to have lunch with a few of them anyway during the week. And I mean, I am still Erika, the nice girl that I was when I was in CR, no difference there.
Apparently it makes a big difference though, not sitting among other Nordics. I mean, normally I speak a lot of Swedish during the day since I talk to my colleagues and friends in the team, but in ER, I'm the only Scandinavian. There are about 3 or 4 Scandinavians on the whole floor where I'm sitting. I know them all, but it's not like we sit together so that we can chat all day.
What I meant is that, apparently my accent has drastically "improved" towards the Irish accent. None of my UK customers could hear that I was from somewhere else, they believed me to be either from UK or Ireland, but not from a non-English speaking country.
I take that as a compliment, and it is a bit sad. More and more of me are fading away...
How would you feel when you actually need to do a Google Translate English to Swedish, because you can't remember the word in Swedish but you know it in English? That is just silly...but that happens to me often nowadays.
When I speak to Nordic customers I speak a bit of Swenglish, I loose words and have to apologize and say them either in another Nordic language or in English.
But still I am very proud of being Swedish. Which everybody at work knows :) And I mean, why shouldn't I be? Ok, I don't know anything about what has happened during the last few years now since I haven't really been home for over 3,5 years now, but still.
Anywho, just wanted to let you know that I am happy :)
It is a great team. But I really do miss being in the Nordic team. They barely speak to me anymore. It is almost like "Erika is ER now, we mustn't speak with her", which is quite sad. But I try to have lunch with a few of them anyway during the week. And I mean, I am still Erika, the nice girl that I was when I was in CR, no difference there.
Apparently it makes a big difference though, not sitting among other Nordics. I mean, normally I speak a lot of Swedish during the day since I talk to my colleagues and friends in the team, but in ER, I'm the only Scandinavian. There are about 3 or 4 Scandinavians on the whole floor where I'm sitting. I know them all, but it's not like we sit together so that we can chat all day.
What I meant is that, apparently my accent has drastically "improved" towards the Irish accent. None of my UK customers could hear that I was from somewhere else, they believed me to be either from UK or Ireland, but not from a non-English speaking country.
I take that as a compliment, and it is a bit sad. More and more of me are fading away...
How would you feel when you actually need to do a Google Translate English to Swedish, because you can't remember the word in Swedish but you know it in English? That is just silly...but that happens to me often nowadays.
When I speak to Nordic customers I speak a bit of Swenglish, I loose words and have to apologize and say them either in another Nordic language or in English.
But still I am very proud of being Swedish. Which everybody at work knows :) And I mean, why shouldn't I be? Ok, I don't know anything about what has happened during the last few years now since I haven't really been home for over 3,5 years now, but still.
Anywho, just wanted to let you know that I am happy :)
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