But I am still glad that I stayed longer here in Estonia, because I can spend a lot of time with my superamazing host family <3
kolmapäev, 27. juuli 2016
Russia trip got cancelled
Just a little update. The trip to Russia with my theatre group won't take place. We got some problems with the Visa, because we were supposed to write them in Russian, although no one had told us about it. And we weren't able to collect as much money as we hoped. I am so sad about this.
teisipäev, 26. juuli 2016
The YES
First of all I am so sorry, that I haven't written something in so long, I couldn't find the motivation for it.
The YES (=Youth European Seminar) took place about a month ago at a lake in the near of Berlin and was the last event for the other exchange students, before they would return to their families. Every European exchange student, who spent their year in Europe could participate. The first thing I did as I arrived in the airport of Frankfurt, was to buy myself a far too expensive Brezel, and it was soooo good. I loved seeing and hugging the people from our preparation week again, we hadn't seen each other for so long. After we flew to Berlin we had to then stay at the airport for 4 hours, 2 hours longer than planned, because we had to wait for some mysterious exchange student, who in the end never showed up, so we started driving about 10pm. It was so weird that it was getting dark, because in Estonia the sun wasn't really going down at all at that time.
As we arrived, everything was very overwhelming, it was dark and the campus was immense, but some of my friends, who had been there longer, helped me out and so I was able to find my room.
The topic of this years YES was " Young innovators changing the world". The 700 (!) exchange students were divided into four tracks about Entrepeneurship, Public Speaking, Technology of the Future and Journalism, which was my group. Every day started and ended with a plenary session, where all the students came together, and where we got information and listened to speeches of guest speakers. During the day we learned more about our topic in the Track sessions and could reflect about our exchange year.
At the last day we presented our track to the other students, we had to do a news show, which ended up being quite funny, but also very stressful to prepare, because we had even less freetime because of that.
It was definitely a very interesting experience having a seminar with so many people, constantly meeting new ones, while being on the search for old friends. I couldn't talk nearly as much with most of them as I would have liked to due to rare freetime and the huge amount of people. But it was awesome to meet the Estonian exchange students! One evening many of the Estonians and the former exchange students in Estonia were sitting by the lake, singing loud and false Estonian songs and doing weird energizers, which was really cool.
We had a party at the last evening, and I stayed up all night with a friend, so that we could say goodbye to everyone, who was leaving. The first bus drove at about 3 o' clock. It was really hard to say goodbye to the ones, who had been with me in Estonia, not knowing if we would see each other ever again. Let's just hope the saying ' At YFU you see each other always a second time' is true :)
I took a plane to Estonia on the same day,feeling very tired, but also really thankful, that I was given this amazing chance to living there a bit longer.
The YES (=Youth European Seminar) took place about a month ago at a lake in the near of Berlin and was the last event for the other exchange students, before they would return to their families. Every European exchange student, who spent their year in Europe could participate. The first thing I did as I arrived in the airport of Frankfurt, was to buy myself a far too expensive Brezel, and it was soooo good. I loved seeing and hugging the people from our preparation week again, we hadn't seen each other for so long. After we flew to Berlin we had to then stay at the airport for 4 hours, 2 hours longer than planned, because we had to wait for some mysterious exchange student, who in the end never showed up, so we started driving about 10pm. It was so weird that it was getting dark, because in Estonia the sun wasn't really going down at all at that time.
As we arrived, everything was very overwhelming, it was dark and the campus was immense, but some of my friends, who had been there longer, helped me out and so I was able to find my room.
The topic of this years YES was " Young innovators changing the world". The 700 (!) exchange students were divided into four tracks about Entrepeneurship, Public Speaking, Technology of the Future and Journalism, which was my group. Every day started and ended with a plenary session, where all the students came together, and where we got information and listened to speeches of guest speakers. During the day we learned more about our topic in the Track sessions and could reflect about our exchange year.
At the last day we presented our track to the other students, we had to do a news show, which ended up being quite funny, but also very stressful to prepare, because we had even less freetime because of that.
It was definitely a very interesting experience having a seminar with so many people, constantly meeting new ones, while being on the search for old friends. I couldn't talk nearly as much with most of them as I would have liked to due to rare freetime and the huge amount of people. But it was awesome to meet the Estonian exchange students! One evening many of the Estonians and the former exchange students in Estonia were sitting by the lake, singing loud and false Estonian songs and doing weird energizers, which was really cool.
We had a party at the last evening, and I stayed up all night with a friend, so that we could say goodbye to everyone, who was leaving. The first bus drove at about 3 o' clock. It was really hard to say goodbye to the ones, who had been with me in Estonia, not knowing if we would see each other ever again. Let's just hope the saying ' At YFU you see each other always a second time' is true :)
I took a plane to Estonia on the same day,feeling very tired, but also really thankful, that I was given this amazing chance to living there a bit longer.
 |
| Plenar session |
Tellimine:
Postitused (Atom)