Estonian Day No. 142.

And the photo story is going on... ;)

Dec 8th
After the PE lesson

Dec 9th

My birthday party - we made it a theme party: "Sini-must-valge" was the title, which are the colours of the Estonian flag. So everybody had to come dressed in blue-black-white, and we made pretty much blue-black-white food. 

Still preparing...

Well, the best part was that we finally had SNOW, real snow!!! There was actually a pretty heavy storm outside in the afternoon. I should've become even stronger, but luckily that didn't happen. It was almost gone by the time the main part of the guests arrived. Leonie and Isabell had been there earlier already to help me with all the preparations (and even six hours seemed to be too little time in the end...), and the others arrived around 9pm. 

Then we had sauna. I usually go there alone (mainly because there is noone to go with), but this time we managed to put seven girls together in there - and our sauna is really small - and it was soooo much fun! Especially when we were running around in the snow-covered garden, barefoot and with our bikinis on only. We even wanted to go swimming in the pond, but our feet were frozen before Janika got to break the thick ice. That was the most amazing sauna experience I ever had.

  When the guys were in the sauna...

Dec 10th - my actual Sweet Seventeen

The day started with me waking up because I heard people in the kitchen - at 9am. (Argh!!!) I went downstairs and found my parents and my younger brother, who had left our house for the night.

Oh, there's a dialogue I gotta tell you about. It took place in some morning, while I was sitting in the car with Ilona, on the way to Tartu:

"By the way, you can have the house."

"Which house?"

"Our house."

"Whaa...?"

"For your birthday."

"But...?"

"Yeah, Ahti, Andreas and me will stay over at some friend's place."

"But...?"

"Yeah, of course, we'll get your guests from the busstation in Lähte and bring them home, Ahti will make the sauna, but then we'll be gone."

In that moment, I was still speechless. Later, when I had found my voice again, I kinda thanked her a thousand times for everything.

Well, they had come back in the morning, congratulated me, and gave me flowers and my super cool present - two tickets for the Ahhah!-Science centre - and then started making pancakes. I had actually wanted to make pancakes, but Ilona said that I'd better go and wake the others, she'd be caring for everything. And she made pancakes with whipped cream and my favourite fruit-stuff-whatever. We had never had pancakes with whipped cream before! That was pretty much the best breakfast ever.

Afterward, me and some of my guests had a short walk outside, because we had snow and sun at the same time! Reeeaaally cool.