Medical Swedish.

Sometimes couchsurfing can be weird but most of the time it's wonderful. Like when with no effort at all from my side, I got a offered a job by being a part of the Job in Berlin group on couchsurfing.
I got a message from a guy that wondered if I wanted to be a practice patient for German medical students that where doing a exchange year in Sweden. He needed native Swedish speakers to help out by talking easy Swedish about a fake illness. For this I would get paid and get breakfast. Offer me food and I will be there basically, and this just sounded like easy fun.

So last Saturday morning I got to breakfast with a group of students and switched between Swedish and German while eating. My case said that I had a urinary tract infection after coming back from my honeymoon in Thailand a couple of days earlier. Easy. I sat in a room and during 2 hours nine students came in and tried to figure out what I had. Their Swedish was at very different levels. Some spoke almost fluently, others just had a very basic vocabulary and looked at me all confused when I said anything. Some took it really serious and where professional. One thought that my Swedish was so different from anything he had every heard, which was a surprise for me. I think my Swedish is dialect free and without any difficult words. He thought my word use was special, but we could communicate and talked about Uppsala, where he is going in Sweden, and places to live and how wonderful that city is after he figured out what illness I had.
It's not really hard to get that I fake had a urinary tract infection (It hurts when I pee and I need to go to the bathroom often. Really anyone would figure that out after that sentence), all did it, and after they said that they wanted a urin sample and blood sample and said that I would get antibiotics, I chitchatted with them.
You have to know some chitchat in Swedish if you're going to live there. Like how to small talk about the weather (typical) or explain why you choose Sweden for an exchange year and so on. I always find it interesting that people learn Swedish and love Sweden so much as some of these students did. The two hours went passed fast and I had fun.
I could do this every weekend, so if someone in Berlin needs a native Swedish speakers for anything and offer food (money would be a bonus), hook me up.

In other stuff that you don't do every day, is that I will go to the airport and pick someone up that I've never meet tomorrow. Not just anyone at the airport, but Jake's brother. I have never been to the Tegel airport since I don't fly and I need to find someone and bring him to Tempelhof. My sense of direction is awful and finding thing/people isn't what I'm good at. This can go wrong in many ways but it can also go right in many ways. Tomorrow is going to be an adventure. (We're going on an adventure, Charlie!)