Narva | 81 days

Narva, the third biggest town in Estonia is different from all the others. While walking through the streets, you can only hear Russian speaking people, even in the supermarket the woman on the cashdesk greets you with "privjet" instead of "Tere" and there are also many signs which are written in Cyrillic script. Narva is the most eastern town of Europe and with a Russian population of 95%, also one with the highest percentage of foreigners in Estonia. It doesn't really felt like Estonia anymore. Once it was a really nice town similar to Tallinn, but everything except one house got destroyed during the 2nd world war.
There is only a river seperating Estonia from Russia, I somehow hadn't imaged Russia to be so close!
We went there from Thursday to Saturday and stayed in the only Estonian school in the town. We also had the opportunity to do some activities with the students on Friday morning and in the evening. Besides that we just walked around and visited the castle and some sort of underground tunnels that provided refuge for the citizens of Narva. It was such a great weekend with the best people in the whole world. I have only known them for such a short periode of time, but I can't imagine a life without them and I don't want to think about the fact, that we are going to have only the Latvia trip and the End year seminar together. Less than 3 months in Estonia. Soon I will be back in Germany. On the one hand I am looking really forward to it, but on the other hand everything will be entirely over and it's never gonna be like it is right now. 'Don't count the days, make the days count.' This quote describes it perfectly.

Russia!!

The bridge between Estonia and Russia