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Really cool thing that I wanted to post here in the blog is Tallinn Old Town Days which were happening during the very first week of June.“Taking place each June in the heart of this historic city, Old Town Days is a great medieval festival which sees the streets filled with participants dressed in the traditional clothes of that period. Events include a traditional street market, authentic medieval food and drink stalls, street entertainers, folk music and traditional dancing”.
This year Old Town Days were organized already for 27th time and for now that’s the most popular event in the capital, with activities throughout the week. Our MC office is located in the very centre of Old Town and that’s why every day we could somehow observe the activities happening around. I think that’s really amazing event which is promoting not only Estonia as a country but also shows how rich by culture it is. I would not tell how many tourists were coming here during Old Town Days – MANY! :)
I didn’t have chance to attend the activities as full as I can but could somehow cover the main things I’m interested in during weekends. Also, it was very good finally to be like a tourist in Tallinn, take pictures and get to know the city where I will live a year of my life…
During Saturday me and Kristina (my MCP) were discovering the Old town days together and you may see some pictures taken that time…
There were so many people who asked me the same question – so how do you like Estonia? That’s the typical question that people ask to foreigner… And you know I’m always replying the same that I’m pretty enjoying being here and that’s true. I think that living such a life I have now maybe was one of my inner wishes… Just the lifestyle is different rather than in Almaty as I don’t have to rush somewhere all the time, being stressed, spend my nerves struggling with certain people, not to have time for myself and simply live the routine… I don’t want to say that I don’t like my city and didn’t love at all the life before, but maybe I had just to take a rest for a while and look to many things from another perspective and start missing my every day Almaty life… I know, that it will come, but for now, I love being here - in the small green country…
For now, I have certain things which I’m really enjoying here in Estonia and that make me smile as well, but I guess I can tell about that a bit later when the time comes as many things I’m still trying to learn…
Last weekend I was having Outgoing Preparation Seminar for young people who would like to go on internships by AIESEC and I would say that it was really very much useful seminar for me not only being a facilitator but also to for my personal cultural integration here. And I understood that for now I’m in a “Honeymoon” stage of cultural adaptation when I feel excited, everything seems beautiful and amazing for me...
Sometimes I’m feeling alone as don’t have any other community except AIESEC here, that’s’ why always happy when there is an opportunity to spend time outside of my home place and travel somewhere.
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Today I received a letter from my mom… With my dad I’m communicating quite often via e-mails, but mom wrote me for the first time. It’s really so sweet to read mails from your parents when they write the things which they used to tell you in a real life – the ones we always, as “smart” kids, know for sure, seem obvious for us and almost all the time don’t accept as “we know better”… :) But when you receive the same reminders from your parents via e-mails, you see between the lines how sweet these “instructions” are - they make you only smile and value the feelings of your parents a lot when you are especially the only one child and far for now… I’m taking as a habit now to write my parents every Sunday a kind of report what’s going on with me here and do I follow their instructions, offers and remember the things I promised…
23-24th June are coming the national holidays in Estonia - Jaanipäev or Midsummer days, as I’ve been told that’s one of the most welcome days in Estonia and everybody here goes out of the cities to the countryside to celebrate it…
Jaanipaev – This is the climax of the midsummer events. June 23 is considered the night of magical powers and is the eve of Jaanipaev. The traditional way to celebrate this event is to head out to the countryside. Here the citizens of Estonia will light bonfires and dance and sing around the fires; they will also look for the mystical fern flower which is supposed to bloom only on this night and will bring luck to those who find it.
See you soon…
