Estonian Day No. 22.

Sunday, I visited my support person Imbi. I went to Tartu and she met me at the bus station. Together with her oldest daughter Kaisa, we bought some stuff for lunch and then went to their home to prepare and eat it. Later, I went to town again with Kaisa because Ilona had asked be to buy a vocab book for Andreas. There she met some friends and I left her.

On my way to the Kaubamaja, I met Leonie who had gone to Tartu alone. She helped me find a vocab book and we had a look at a shop I had seen with Aaron and Maarie the day before. (Maarie had been invited to join us quite spontaneously, so she came from her village near Jõgeva. In town, we met some girl from our arrival camp with her sister and a friend and later (much later), Monique joined us. Maarie slept at my house, because there was no bus back to Jõgeva that night.) It was great and I'm sure to visit it again sometime. I also spent almost all of the money I carried with me on GRRM's "A Dance with Dragons" which I found in the astonishing bookshop I talked about earlier. :D

Then, Kätlin wrote that she could join us soon, and so she did. We decided to go to the Lõunakeskus because Kätlin needed some caramel syrup they had only there. At the bus station we met a friend of hers, who wanted to go to the Lõunakeskus, too, and together we got on the bus. Unfortunately, we could stay at the center for only 10 minutes, because Leonie and I needed to catch our busses back home.

That night, I cried. Since I didn't know why, I opened the present I had got from my class. (Exactly six weeks before I would take my flight to Tallinn, My class had made me a present which I was allowed to open only in Estonia. I promised myself to open it when I cried for the first time without reason and couldn't stop within 30 seconds.) It was soooo cute!

I got a self-made book with letters from nearly all of my classmates. Reading it, I changed between crying and laughing plus crying. Sophia's letter now has teardrops on it, Jasmin's was only saved from this by the transparency film around, and Tanja's made me smile so much, I couldn't possibly cry at the same time.

Now I have two stones, one paper clip and one undefinable pink and black thing in my purse: the first stone is from the river Gera. I picked it on our Thuringia Tour near the Krämerbrücke in Erfurt. The undefinable pink and black thing is an undefinable pink and black thing, that Tanja wanted to throw away. I kept it. The other stone is from my former class teacher, Mrs Enders, it was in the self-made book. The paper clip I got from Jonas.

Yesterday (monday) was my first school day. It was okay. Ivika, a girl from my class, showed me around and translated the most important stuff for me. That was very kind. Some teachers are very young, some are very weird (I'll find out whether that's good or not too good during the year), and not always there's a difference. All in all, the lessons were a mixture between interesting, because everything was new, and boring, because I didn't understand a word. The choir was fun, but it was difficult to sing the lyrics, when you can neither understand nor pronounce them. :D

Afterwards, I slept a lot. (And read even more.)

Today, it was even nicer in school. Our media teacher was very nice and her English is really good. Maths was okay - we did some easy stuff. That was fun, but I couldn't really participate because I could only understand what our teacher wrote on the blackboard. Sports isn't too bad when you have only one lesson (45mins). ;) German was great, but we didn't do a lot of German stuff. Still, that's gonna be a lot of fun. Physics was okay, too. We wrote a test which our teacher had luckily translated into English. Still, writing English tests is hard when you need vocabulary you don't know, need to describe and know that you couldn't express yourself half as good as you could have done in German. A thousand times better than in Estonian, though. In Estonian, I worked with my "E nagu Eesti".


I walked home. I wanted to have some time to myself, to think or let my head be empty how I wished. It started raining soon, raining hard later, and by the time it started raining so hard it almost hurt, I had already done two of the three kilometers. After exactly thirty minutes, I arrived home, totally wet on my front side which had confronted the wind. Ahti and Jorma lay on the diivan, sound asleep. I hung up my wet clothes and went to bed, where our white cat had been waiting for me, cuddlier than any cat I ever met. (Seriously!)

After two hours, I went downstairs because Ilona and Andreas had come home, had a short chat with them and went to bed again. Another two hours later, it was time for dinner.