Teachers day / How to learn Estonian

On Monday we had Teachers day- that means that all the teachers could stay at home and the lessons were given by the 12th graders. Unfortunately they were pretty much the same like normal lessons- an exception for that was English. We watched a video about education. About how school often fails to educate us, although education is so important. This video is really worth a watch, it made me so thoughtful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZmM7zPLyI

The weather is getting cold here. 0-7 degrees mostly. It's like a warm german winter. Brrrr. In the last two weeks my class has been busy with the preparations for the circus project. For the frame story we decided for an old woman, who tells her grandchild (played by me *feeling excited*) a story about her past, when she was working in a circus. We have a dances, magic tricks, livemusic... I think it's going to be awesome!

On the last weekend we had a meeting from YFU. We talked about how the first weeks have been, what problems we had, how we feel and so on. It was so great to see all the exchange students of my group again! Ma armastan vahetusõpilasi! ♥

My language skills are improving, at least I think so. For example I read a very easy children book yesterday and I didn't have to look up any word, because I understood everything out of the context and the pictures. Every little achievement in this language make me so happy! But when I try to speak in Estonian a bit, there are usually at least two mistakes in every sentences. (The Estonian sentence is also the corrected version)

The biggest problem for me is that you have to learn four forms of every noun... But if there should be anyone reading this, who is interested in learning Estonian, I can totally recommend to you the website keeleklikk.ee . You can create your own free account and learn with small videos and varied exercises. I am also using two textbooks:
Estnisch für Anfänger by Lextra: http://www.cornelsen.de/lextra/1.c.3092623.de

Estnisch Intensiv https://books.google.ee/books/about/Estnisch_intensiv_das_Lehrbuch_der_estni.html?id=yw97NwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

But the last one is very taxing and I think it is maybe even too profound for an exchange year.
 I recently found a youtube channel, on which an Estonian girl explains some basic Estonian stuff, like the numbers. So if someone wants to know a bit more about this language, this playlist is perfect! :)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwzaKL53VjNZVSHAkwHJR31A2YfcBlvfh
(I am sorry for the many links)

Besides that I sometimes translate children books or AABITS. That's the book, Estonian first graders learn reading with and I am watching Estonian TV.

So we have autumn vacation next week (I have too many plans for only one week :D). Today is also the 16. of Oktober, that means that I am already here for two months. On the one hand I feel like I have been here forever and on the other as if I left Germany two weeks ago.