Estonian Day No. 61.

When I woke up this morning, everything was white. Not covered with snow though (Thank God!) but with frost. So before even having eaten anything, I took my camera and two jackets and went outside to take some photos. My family thought that was weird, taking pictures at that time of the day, but I went anyway. After some minutes, my hands were totally frozen. When Ilona came inside again after feeding the cats (which took about 30 seconds) she said: "You are right - it's really cold!"

Today we had a YFU meeting. This meeting took place in Tartu and Tallinn, so you could choose where you wanted to go. Ilona, Ahti, and me went to Tartu, of course. It started at 11 a.m. in a kohvik near the university and at first all the people got seperated into four groups: host fathers, host mothers, host siblings, and exchange students. We went to the YFU Office and did a language test there. I got 39,5 of 50 possible points and am quite disappointed, but when I try to consider it objectively, this is quite good a result. Afterwards, we had some sweets and everybody had to talk in Estonian about their school and family life here. Some spoke better than me, some worse, so I was quite satisfied in that point. Then we discussed - in English now - about topics like main differences in cultures, our support persons, internet and so on. At about 2 p.m. we went back to meet the others again in that café and had lunch. Then we went home.