I promised myself that I would be able to do a full talk in norweign about six months after coming here. A couple of days ago at the internal Bouvet One conference, I got the chance, as I was standing in for a friend who was not able to speak. The talk was about beautiful builds, and some principles we had used in the last internal project.

I felt pretty helpless when someone finally asked a question and starting talking in english again, but I made it through the initial presentation without talking in english at all.  Was scary, but I try to put myself in these situations, since I believe that is when you learn the most.

Have fun. I hope to be looking at this in a couple of years and laugh at how bad my norwegian is.