School was okay. I learned some Estonian vocabulary with my self-built flash cards, and when I became unable to concentrate on this anymore, I just stared at the walls, pretending to be thinking. That's a good thing to do, because nobody suspects you to be doing nothing, or at least not, when you're holding flash cards in your hands and don't look too sleepy.
Then we had füüsika and wrote that test. It was quite okay, I actually understood quite a lot of the tasks, so that went fine. I still couldn't do about half of the test but that was partly because I'm simply not that good at physics. Afterwards, we had ajalugu, and unlike the last time, I refused to write the test, because I hadn't understood anything during the last lessons and just learned vocabulary all the time.
Well, why did I build the flash cards? I'm not sure if I told about that already, so I'll just do it now, probably again. You know about that Estonian exercise book of mine, the one they gave us in our arrival camp near Tallinn, "E nagu Eesti". It sucks. Of course, it was astonishingly kind of YFU to give it to us, but it is for Germans, Finns, Russians, and English native speakers. So there are absolutely no explanations in it, and you have to look up every single word in the multi-lingual vocab list, which does not even contain phonetic transcriptions. And after having somehow done the first nine of thirty units, I didn't want to do any more of them and started making those flash cards. And after having finished doing those flash cards, I started using them. By this, I could avoid having to go on doing units in my beloved "E nagu Eesti". You could say that I started learning because I was too lazy to go on learning.
Kehaline was senseless as always and German was okay. But this time, while the others did some writing exercise, I had to speak Estonian. I don't have anything against practicing speaking it, but it doesn't need to be in front of my class. Still, I managed quite - hmm, not well, but I managed somehow. We discussed about similarities and differences between Estonian and German grammar, and soon the lesson was over.
In the break before noortekoor, we all were already in the music room, and I went to Iris and Janika. Iris and me started raving about "Dance of the Vampires" and became - well - energetic. We were just so amazed by each other's joy and passion that we became joyful and passionate ourselves. And poor Janika, sitting between the both of us, was simply staring. That was so cute, because usually she is the most joyful and passionate person around, and seeing her being amazed by us being like her was simply an adorable sight.
After noortekoor (4 p.m.), I went to the dormitory with Janika. I had asked her if she can help me to learn some vocabulary with those flash cards, because there's always a difference between doing it alone and doing it with somebody, especially with some native speaker. So we sat in the kitchen, drank tea, and she prepared some chocolate candies that she wanted to give to her friend as a birthday present, and in between, she would ask me some words. There also were some people sitting around us, who seemed to be more and more astonished by the number of words I knew. I told them that I'd been working intensely with those flash cards for three days and that although I knew the words, I was unable to use them, but still they were quite impressed. After some time (6 p.m.), we went upstairs to Janika's room and went on learning there. We sometimes went off-topic, and so we happened to be talking about important people in our lives' pasts and presents for a long while, and then we became hungry (8.30 p.m.). We went downstairs to the kitchen again and had dinner and a nice chat with some others. Upstairs (10 p.m.), Ilona called to tell me that Juhani had gone to some training in Lähte and that he could take me home after it had ended. So Janika and me gave up learning and decided to do the chocolate candies in the kitchen. We had a lot of fun doing them, and they looked (and tasted) really delicious after we had finished (10.45 p.m.). We took our clothes and went to the gymnasium to wait for Juhani to take me home. He came at 10.54 p.m., Janika and me said goodbye to each other and Juhani and me left. So I had spent seven hours in the dormitory, learning and laughing and crying.
Yes, crying. For the first time (except some minutes with Leonie on the phone) I cried in the presence of another person. But it was okay. I like Janika and I trust her, so it was easy.
Today, I had bioloogia and used that pretending-to-be-learning-while-sleepily-staring-into-nowhere-trick. In ajalugu, some üliõpilane taught us, but it was quite boring. I became very happy when my teacher gave me some German material (!) and although it was about political history, I read all of it - just because it was in German. In keemia, we wrote a test. I hadn't understood anything during the last lessons, but I had to do it, and the teacher came from time to time to explain something to me - in Estonian, but I somehow understood. So it went quite well.
Then, our class went to Tartu to watch some theatre play, "Aja lugu muusikas", history in music. One man was talking about European history and some other man, who was also the dirigent of the whole orchestra that was also on the stage and played some music pieces in between, said some sentence or asked some question from time to time. It seemed to be funny. I got all the historical facts, but no jokes except one that wasn't too funny. And I had to confess that I had been wrong all the time: it's not depressing to sit in a class and everybody except you is laughing. It is depressing to sit in a full auditorium and everybody around you is laughing!
It ended at 2 p.m., so I went to the kesklinn and met Leonie. We had pitsa, kohuke, and pannkoogid. Then we went home.
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