REUNION

"Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended." - Bill Toomey

Omg, it's almost time to go back to school. There are school-themed commercials everywhere and I still feel like the summer just began.

Few days ago I went to Tallinn with my friend (and dancepartner) Merit, her sista Laura and my new friends Rauno & Kirsika. I was just bored of being at home all day so the day went much brighter when I got the chance to go to Tallinn with them. While we were driving we exchanged our thoughts about Weekend festival with Merit and Laura. The festival was so huge that I only saw them once during the three days I spent in Pärnu. When we finally arrived, we went shopping and I bought myself some new fresh kicks and a Suicide Squad t-shirt (I still haven't seen the actual movie but many have said that the shirt itself is better than the movie :D). We weren't happy about the shopping-all-day-thing with Rauno and we tried not to cry too much. Later, we dropped off Laura because she was going to Denmark the following day. When we were driving back to Viljandi we suddenly decided to visit Rummu. The weather was superb at the moment we planned this - fog and sunset at the same time looked glorious. But when we arrived the sun had already went down and it was too dark to take the pictures, sadly. In overall, the trip was awesome because I don't see Merit too often and it's always great to see her and have a talk about the stupid things we've been doing lately.

Top of the hill - posing with Merit

Top quality pictures

 Quite scary, isn't it?

The next day I woke up and again went to Tallinn, this time by train. I met up with my friends from the media seminar I recently attended. When I waited for Mery-Ly, some foreigners came to me and started talking about their religion. Even though I'm not religious I heard them out and broadened my horizons a bit I guess. After that we went for a coffee with Mery-Ly and had some quality time together. We went to a bar where she works and I made a new aquintance in there who liked my shirt I bought the previous day so much that she wanted to buy/take/steal it from me. Now I know that if I ever have a need to have a glass of whiskey with ice, I go to Route 13. The American atmosphere over there is astonishing, splendid.

Route 13

After that we met up with Julia, Ilona and Andrei and before going to the movies had a coffee with them and reminded the "old times" when we were at the camp. We watched Bad Moms and it was freaking hilarious. I'm not a fan of comedies but it was really funny, you better watch it. I rate it 8 out of 10. 8 because it was funny but like I said, I'm not a fan of the comedy genre. After the film I ran to the old town to get the keys to the apartment I had to stay the night at. That was right after we sent Julia, Ilona and Andrei onto the bus. Finally, we went to Route 13 because you know, Life is a Highway. I had a whiskey with ice and we had a chat with some people. Groovy.

The Real Suicide Squad 

Reunion

The morning after

The next day I went back to my sweet hometown and met up with my best friends and as you know me, I like to talk about myself, eh. :D They had to listen all the crap I had done in Tallinn. Right now, I'm writing this post in Kristel's laptop. I'm with my friends but while they're having fun and all the laughs, I'm being a total computer whiz by writing this post. :D

Computer Whiz

Alold

Next da Vinci

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams

This month has been amazing so far. I went to a painting camp - yep, I know I can't paint. The last time I picked up a brush and used it for painting was in 9th grade. Even then it wasn't voluntarily, it was in school. However, I wanted to attend the camp for one day because I needed to see how rusty my painting skills were. Thanks to my high self-esteem I could say that I'm not that bad but that's only my opinion. There were people who were actually really really good compared to me.

 Acting like I know what I'm doing

My painting is the first in the second row. The one with the long post in front.

The next great thing was that I succeeded my final driving exam. Since the 19th of August I'm officially allowed to steer the wheel of a motor vehicle - hell yeah! Of course I've been cruising down the streets a lot now and almost even managed to cause an accident when reversing the car. Right now, I don't have my own car but I'm driving my mom's old car which is pretty much a junkyard's material.
Talking about what I'm planning to do next. Well, in a few days I'm going to Tallinn to see my friends from the media camp. I don't know what we're gonna do yet but we'll see. Furthermore, I registered myself for a blogging class. It's going to take place in Tallinn in a month and I can't wait to go there. I'm looking to make many new aquintances and learn some new stuff.

TIGER

"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read." - Oscar Wilde

The seminar is over, sadly. The 7 days I spent in there were unforgettable. The seminar was located firstly in Laulasmaa which is near Tallinn and the last three days in Paide. At the start, it was kinda hard because I came there straight after the Weekend Festival and I was totally exhausted. The exciting part of the camp was that I didn't know anybody in there at the beginning. I had to slowly fade in and start making some friends. The first aquintances were made at the bus stop before we went to Laulasmaa. I introduced myself to my future roommates Paul and Kaarel. Paul is an amazing photographer and took many pictures of the camp and Kaarel is a social butterfly who's also really skilled at basketball.

Lecture

Releasing my inner tiger

It wasn't always warm so Kaarel and I brought our blankets with us

The first day at the seminar was pretty quiet. The second day when the lectures became, I met with this charming girl at a coffee break. She has a name too and it's Mery-Ly. When I was waiting for my coffee she was like: "Hey, can you hold my cup for a sec?" and I was like: "If you pay me well then yeah." - that's where our relationship began (not that relationship, we're friends, just really good friends). OK, no messing around. We spent most of the time together and she was my companion for the whole seminar. It was really hard to concentrate on the lectures because we didn't sleep much at nights - we had to watch movies, chat and laugh and eventually pass out due exhaustion. She speaks fluent Estonian and Russian so thanks to her I also made some Russki-speaking friends. Julia, Ilona and Andrei were part of our main squad. They have been learning Estonian for ten years already and understand pretty much everything we said in Estonian. It was nice to see that they really want to learn the language and they even took some notes to improve their vocabulary of their free time. Of course they weren't the only ones that improved themselves. I did too. My Estonian vocabulary was improved a lot because I was surrounded by intelligent people. They used words I've never heard of - now I can play smartass in front of my friends and talk in a "language" they won't understand, ha.

Robert & Karl jammin'

My niggah Joosep 

 It all started when I wanted to take a photo of me and Joosep, suddenly everyone came :D

Fun af

Inside jokes are always the heart of great friendship. Mery-Ly, Julia, Ilona, Andrei and I got along so well and now I can't wait to visit the capital city to see them. They called me "kutsikas" (in English: "puppy") at the beginning and in the end "tiiger" (in English: "tiger") because I was with Mery-Ly all the time and they considered me as her pet - well, where did I go wrong? :D There were many more inside jokes but you wouldn't understand them and they wouldn't be "inside" anymore if I told you - "Suu kinni, istu oma kohale!"

Emotions after having a 4-hour sleep (Mery-Ly said that this pic is the cutest, I agree)

We were sulky because Mery-Ly was about to leave - Mery-Ly squatting, from left to right Toomas, Andrei, Ilona, Julia

However, talking more about the educational part, even though I'm not planning to study journalism in future I find that the media seminar was totally worth the time. I made some new friends and contacts with in future I can hang out or work together on some project for example. Firstly, we visited Postimees, ERR and Kanal 2 which are the biggest media channels in Estonia. Secondly, we went to Arvamusfestival 2016 which is an event where people can attend lectures and have a voice in. Our job with the seminar was to interview people and film it. We interviewed president candidates like Siim Kallas, Allar Jõks, Mailis Reps and even some regular visitors to hear what they think of the festival so far. I also attended some drug-related lecture with Joosep but didn't really have time to attend anything else. In conclusion, it was a great experience for all of us.

Posing like we were about to drop the next hit album in ERR studio

News anchors

Interview in progress

Our team - from left Nadja, Grete, Joosep, Toomas, Sarah, Robert, Siim

Resting after hard work with Joosep and Olle

I can't believe the seminar ended. It was so much fun, I wanna go back. I would like to thank Anu Viltrop, Julia Amor and Ivo Rull for making this amazing thing happen. I hope I see my friends again!

The whole package

Collage of Mery-Ly, Ilona and Julia - Где Андрей?