cimorene

So, a week ago I went to a Finnish course placement test, and at the time the interviewer for the oral portion (which was quite funny, as my Finnish is almost wholly inadequate to complete sentences in response even when I understand the question, and I also didn't recognize the word "wife" and completely forgot some of the standard question words even though I know them) emphasized quite strongly that I wasn't to travel or do anything because the classes might start as soon as the last week in March. Well, it's the last week in March! And I've just gotten a letter inviting me to a Finnish class... that doesn't start until May.

I could totally have been making appointments with my therapist all along! Also I could have made that doctor's appointment last week!

Actually I'm more disturbed by the prospect of waiting another two months than anything else. I've become extremely anxious for SOMETHING, ANYTHING to happen recently, but if the class really is capable of taking up to three days a week it will probably make it impossible for me to get a job in that interval (although I will be compensated with a higher unemployment allowance because it was arranged by the employment office and counts as job training).

In the long term, though, Finnish is an inescapably essential life skill if I want to stay in the Turku-Åbo area and eventually get a job, and it's going to take a lot of time and work whenever I do it so it should be good to get it over with. If only I didn't have a sort of Job Fever just now (which is kind of funny - that it's just NOW I mean - as I've never had a real job or even a full-time one and I've only worked a total of nine weeks outside the flat since 2004).

So. Cabin Fever. Maybe in addition to knitting, I should take up some kind of volunteer activity. Some kind of volunteer activity that doesn't require being able to form sentences in Finnish...