Estonian Day No. 39.

Yesterday was - well, not fine but okay. I'm still alive, ain't I?

After Ilona had said that since it's the Day of European Languages, I might even speak French. I was absolutely shocked of the thought because the more Estonian I learn the more French I forget - but still, the idea of it was somehow attracting.

So, when it was my turn, I walked confidently (or I hope that's what it looked like) to the stage and said three or so Estonian sentences, then added some French which I had carefully prepared in my mind before, talked a bit of German and finally did the main part in English. I even made all the audience laugh. That was great! Unfortunately, I was so nervous that after I had brilliantly said all the part that I had thought of as the beginning, I had forgotten all the parts of whose order I hadn't been certain of and wanted to improvise once I had started speaking. So this kind of went totally wrong and I left about 70% of my almost perfect speech out. After four minutes, they found me begging for specific or just general questions, and after they hadn't any, I remembered some of my half-prepared part and finally left the stage another minute later, probably brightly red all over the face - as always when I'm nervous.

In the evening, we visited a colleague of Ilona's. She is a Mathematic teacher at Lähte ÜG, but I actually saw her for the first time in school today. Her daughter is of the same age as I am and also plays the piano. So when I arrived she showed it to me and I played half of "Sur Le Fil" and when she gave me the guitar I played a part of Katie Melua's "I cried for you" (see also: Three German Days Left.) but I hate steel strings and soon stopped. Then we went downstairs and had really nice tea with Ilona and her colleague. I liked it there.

Leonie and me with our newly
built satellites, she has
her brother's on her head.

Oskar's satellite with a
broken leg, hardly able to
stand for over three seconds.

Today, I panicked because I thought it would be my mother's birthday already next Saturday and I wouldn't be able to send a package in time and half-freaked out, I tried to explain the word "Luftpolsterfolie" in English, then realized that I have another five days' time and finally remembered that it's my father's birthday today. Then I went to Tartu and created satellites with Leonie and her oldest host brother.

Oskar's, my, and Leonie's satellites.