Plethora of polyglots

I've been surrounded by people who are fluent in multiple languages, from my classmates to the marina operator I rented my boat from to my colleagues at OHB. I've been trying to become functional at least in the 2 official Canadian tongues and picking away at German - and today it all came into play.

Leaving Strasbourg on the morning train, I realized I was comfortable getting around in French. And arriving in Germany a couple hours later, I find I can function, at least to get my luggage to the lockers and catch the bus to an interview.

But the interview - aye, there's the rub. It was posted in German, but they wanted someone who speaks English well. I listed my mother language as English, but all the correspondence leading up to the interview was in German. So last night I read up on the company's new research partnership ... in German. I was so immersed in German that I forgot to speak French to the hotel desk clerk!

But today, it all came together, as I was introduced to my interviewers in German and, while they switched to English for the bulk of the interview, the professor also conversed with me in French. He thinks it would be fun to speak a different language every day at work! And there are also 3 Spanish students on the project - hope I can remember my survival Spanish from the camino ... but this job sounds like Spaß, l'amusement, la diversión, fun in any language!