Somehow, everyday I had a look at my blog but was always too lazy to write something and thought, c'mon, let's do it tomorrow. So somehow, over a week passed. And now it's gonna be quite a loooong post.
When Ilona came home last Saturday afternoon, she asked if we wanted to go to the swamp. Just like that. We agreed. So, wearing already our outfits for the night, we climbed through a forest and suddenly arrived in the swamp. It was amazing. It looked sooo magnificently pretty! Ilona told us the Estonian word for swamp - raba - and so I found out that one of the songs we're singing in the noortekoor is about how hard the Estonian farmers' lives are. (♫ Raba on maa, mida künda ei saa. ♫)
The reggae party was great. Luckily, Ilona had offered to bring us to Saadjärve by car - we had a lot of stuff with us: Leonie had a backpack with her clothes and another bag with her school stuff, I had a big bag with clothes and so on, too, and we carried two sleeping bags and a big basket with muffins. We were the first guests to arrive at Kätlin's summer house and after having had a look around, we found out that we would be less people than expected - only eight, all of us girls, five of us Germans - and that the others would come in an hour's time. We helped Kätlin prepare the food - or rather watched her cooking and doing the salad and entertained her with talking - while waiting for the others.
When they arrived, we first ate something together and then had a "fight" in the pallimeri. That was fun! Kätlin showed us around and we watched a beautiful sunset above the lake. When we found the big batuut in the garden, I and the other Germans climbed it at jumped around for what felt like an hour. It soon became quite cold outside so we went inside again, had another fight in the pallimeri - it shouldn't be the last one... - and watched a movie. Afterwards, we ate again and watched another movie. Then, everybody was so tired that we started dancing around. Sounds weird? Yeah, it was, but it was fun, too. Unfortunately, Kätlin's friends Lisanne and Janeli had to leave already - at about midnight - and Juliana and Isabell went to bed. Kätlin, Leonie, Maarie, and me went upstairs and danced Zumba. Actually, doing wild dancing and laughing with friends is one of the best things to do against fatigue. So after having jumped around and having had another fight in the pallimeri, we decided to watch another movie. Everybody was really happy, that there was a big screen opposite the pallimeri - so we could always watch and be in the pallimeri at the same time! Soon, Kätlin and Leonie fell asleep, but Maarie and me were more awake than ever before during that night. When the movie was over, we decided to go to sleep all the same, so we woke Kätlin and Leonie up and went to bed.
In the next morning, some annoying noise woke Maarie, Leonie and me up after only a few hours of sleep. It was a mobile phone alarm bell. Happy that it was over, we fell asleep again, only to be woken up again ten mintues later. This went on for one and a half hours until finally Isabell got up after quite a long time of sleeping and turned it off - it had been her mobile phone. Leonie and I were too awake to go to sleep again at that time so we had some of the cookies that were left from the party for breakfast and started tidying up the upper floor by collecting all the balls that were covering all the floor and throwing them back into the pallimeri. When Kätlin had too got up half an hour later, we had proper breakfast and took the bus home at 12.50 - somehow the bus driver seemed to be half asleep still, for the bus took nearly twice the time it should need to every station.
Back home, I just threw all my clothes out of my bag because Ilona had offered me to take me to Tartu at once since they wanted to visit the grandparents anyway. In Tartu, I met Leonie, who had missed her bus home because of our weird bus driver and was waiting for the next one that would leave four hours later. Together, we had some kohuke and looked for sports shoes for me but didn't find any. What we found was the sparkling wine that we had been looking for the day before in Lähte. Lisanne had first brought it to Janina's goodbye party just for fun - it was non-alcoholic sparkling wine with a big High School Musical picture on it and had been delicious. We didn't buy exactly the same one again since they had many different sorts of it - Pirates of the Caribbean, Micky Mouse, Disney Princesses, Cars, etc, etc - and decided for a nice Tom&Jerry-wine that had the words "Best Party Ever" on it. Although the reggae party that we originally had wanted to buy it for was already over, we bought it. This appeared to be more complicated than expected: the bottle stood at the back end of the highest shelf. After trying to reach for it by streching and jumping for five minutes, I finally got it by pulling it carefully with my purse. That was kind of exciting.
The same evening, Rainis moved out. We had some cake and salad and I finally gave him the postcard he had wished for while watching me write the first 49 ones. Afterwards, Ilona, Ahti, and me went to Monique's family's summer house where they had built a fire and had a small party there. I got to know Ninnettra from Thailand who had arrived later than the other exchange students, and I had the possibility to explain some English grammar to Monique - who comes from Australia and whose mother tongue is English. :D
On Monday, I went to the folkdancing group for the first time. It was a-m-a-z-i-n-g! Totally exhausting, too, but especially amazing. Janika had invited me to come and since I wanted to keep up dancing somehow anyway, I loved the idea. My history teacher is the trainer there, and her and Janika's English is really good, so when they would explain something to me from time to time, I would understand at once, but there wasn't that much of explaining necessary, because by watching and simply trying, I understood most of it.
On Tuesday, I went to Tartu again - just to go to Tartu. And to get rid of the Tom&Jerry sparkling wine. So I met Kätlin, we went to her home and two minutes later Leonie came along too. Together we had the wine while Leonie talked about the first two days of her fox week. Then Kätlin had to leave for her driving lesson and I went to Zeppelin with Leonie. We bought kohuke and some special-looking bread. Trying it all, one of our nice philosophical discussions developed:
"Hmm, this bread tastes exactly like the deep-frozen baguette we have in Germany, just cheesier and herbier, and somehow entirely different - but exactly the same!""This kohuke is not as caramelly as the other caramel kohuke - might be because that caramel kohuke is not as kohuky as this one -, but it's more caramelly than the chocolate kohuke is choco-y."
Especially funny about those examinations and speeches is the fact that we always create new words - like "herby", "kohuky", or "choco-y".
On Wednesday, we had the Teachers' Day, when all the twelve graders are teachers. It was supposed to be funny, but most of the six lessons we had were taken more serious by the students than they usually were by the teachers. The worst was the last lesson - English: not one English word was spoken during all the lesson. They did not even say "hello" or so. They just explained something in Estonian and wrote some tasks on the blackboard that we had to do. The students that "taught" us were already bored and tired from the day, so they were just looking forward to the end of the lesson.
In the afternoon, I watched some football match of some classes behind the school in our "stadium". When it became too boring, I called Leonie and we talked till Ilona came and we went home together.
When I went to bed, I set the alarm for 1 a.m. It was the night of my mother's birthday and I wanted to call her exactly at German midnight. We talked for 50min. That was nice.
On Friday, I went to Tartu after school. I met Leonie and we bought some sparkling wine - this time the Disney Princesses stuff. I also sent a small package. We then went to the YFU Office to meet some people there. They talked in Estonian all the time but even so we understood almost everything. That felt great! Later, we met Aire, Leonie's host mother, and went to a folkdancing evening. I slept at Leonie's place where I finally covered all my school books and then we together watched a movie and ate lots (!) of cookies and chocolate. At about 3.30 a.m., we went to bed.
Yesterday, I came home at kolmveerand kaksteist. I chatted with Jasmin for a long time. She tried to call me with one of those dial around codes, but somehow this didn't work. Then we had lunch - at 4 p.m., as always - and afterwards Ilona and I watched TV together and talked. At about 5 p.m. I fell asleep on the diivan. When I woke up again, we had dinner - it was veerand üheksa.
Today was quite unspectacular.
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