pühapäev, 30. august 2015

About Kohuke, frogs and fairytale places

First of all I know that my English isn't the best, but I really hope it's going to improve during the year and that you don't mind too much.
Well, that's what I've experienced so far:
On Saturday we went to Rakvere, where my school is and I saw it the first time (but only from the outside). School will start at the 1. of September. There will be a ceremony and we'll get our schedule and more information. I have a very long schoolway, it takes over 1h with the bus, sometimes even 1h and a half. I hope that I will manage that somehow.
On Sunday I met a girl who will go into the same class as me and who lives in my village. She showed my the part of the village I hadn't seen yet. It was so beautiful, I felt a bit like in a fairytale.

I discovered my love for frogs! 



 In the evening my family, Anna and I went to a lake to swim a bit. The lake was really lovely and peaceful because we were almost the only people there.
On the next day we went to the little town in the near of my village to fill out some paper stuff about the ID card.
I am alone during the day because my host mom has to work and the kids usually stay with their grandparents. But I don't mind it much, so I have time to rest a bit. As soon as they home I feel always really comfortable anyway.
 So we went to 'Emumägi' (Emumountain) on Tuesday, which is the highest 'mountain' in Nothern Estonia (it's ratgher a hill, about 150 meters high). Along the path to the top of the mountain are several sculptures made of wood. On the top there is a tower you can climb and from there you have an amazing view over the landscape .







My host grandfather found this big caterpillar in our garden!

The next day I went with my host mother to Rakvere again. First we went again to my school, but this time we actually entered it. I met my class teacher and the head master and I got a tour through the school. It's so awesome! It has an atrium, a new gym hall and the most impressing thing: the rooms for cutting and grabbing the little films. It seems to be so professional!
We looked for school shoes afterwards, because in Estonia you have to wear a second pair of shoes in school, so that the dirt is kept outside. I wasn't able to find suitable ones, because ballerinas,that seem to be the most common kind of shoes for school, don't like my feet at all, but it doesn't matter that much, I have shoes, I can use temporary. We also visited a few sights.


the theatre of Rakvere

You can buy milk in bags. That's so weird! :D

Have I already told you that I'm in love with Kohuke? Kohuke is like a chocolate bar with a filling of quark and it's SO delicious


It was also the last warm and sunny day. The next day it started raining. I'm afraid that the Estonian summer is over. :( 
On Saturday we went to the North Coast of Estonia. It's really beautiful there.





 I also have more information about the theatre program. Reaalgümnaasium Rakvere is a special theatre school, which offers a theatre class I will attend and there are many special theatre activities at my school, I can join if I want to. But depending on which school you will go to there are differences of course. But what applies to everyone on the program: YFU pays all theatre visits.
I just won't understand anything on the theatre, at least the first half of the year .
 My Estonian is good enough to speak a few short and easy sentences and to understand some words in a conversation like 'ja'-'and' or 'ma ei tea'-'I don't know' and if I'm very lucky I can understand what the topic is. I have been pretty motivated to learn Estonian in Germany, I have known a bit already as I arrived here. And I still am motivated to learn. I don't know why. There have been moments I almost smashed my Estonian book against the wall but my enjoyment over understanding a new word I have learned in the Estonian subtitles on TV or over being able to say a more complicated sentence has always won about my frustration and desperation. What do we say to the God of Death  who invented the Estonian language? Not today.


1 kommentaar:

  1. It sounds great. Have a good start in school tomorrow. Love your german family <3

    VastaKustuta