Tuesday 28 August 2007

finally some holidays!

Tere people,

so, as most of you already know, I am leaving to Berlin tomorrow afternoon! And then Prague, Vilnius... and by the mid september I will be back to our beloved Tallinn! I am really excited because I will meet Laura, Barbara and Doro, plus Robert (from my Russian class). I guess we will have a very nice time in Berlin and it will be a bit of Estonia in german land! So I already packed my bag with estonian vodka and some Kalev chocolate! =)
After that I am going to Prague to meet some of my friends who are EVS there. So it will be a bit of Portugal in Czech land! And just before coming back I will make a stop in Vilnius, to meet another portuguese EVS.
So, i will be moving around Europe for more than 2 weeks... I will be back to our blog in the middle of September. by that time I hope you have posted a lot of news, and pictures and funny things to read! If I have the time I will try to write something as well!

happy me!!
the weather in Tallinn has just became crazy... 10 degrees today, and rainning as hell all afternoon!! for the weekend, ILM says 6 degrees during the night... so, the summer is over here!! An I predict a very cold Autum...
I leave you here some of the pictures from last weekend. I hosted a girl from Riga who took this 2 nice pictures.

together wih Simon and Maria (the new volunteer in Viljandi) we went up the tower of the Raekoda, where I took some more pictures of Tallinn Ladscape, like this one!

hope you enjoy
stay cool

Monday 27 August 2007

bye bye

ciao guys,
tomorrow holidays!!!!!!!!!!! I really need of it, l will go in the south of italy for a week in camping close to gigi who is burning in the of fire of greece....actually Its not moment to joke about it:(
l will go to the sea, just to change, and to dance tarantella and pizzica!!!!!!
l m sorry lesya I don t have pictures yet....
and l want also to say good luck to kelig because he is bouging for swisse...good luck drug and see you soon!
new volunteers if you break the wall l will broke your ass....I m joking, maybe not really:)

hasta siempre

Sunday 26 August 2007

:)))

Mmmmm… Nice cake:) I’m sure Yulka would be happy to get such a present:)) And I think also it’s a good sign she appeared on e-mail (at least). But Lee (was it you who made the cake?) is it the one made for Telemahos good-bye evening or you’d made one more?
Christian chao!!!:) Nice to hear from you – appear-after-boat-trip :) I would like to see some photos
A couple of days ago we had the Independence Holiday day (16 years ago, on the 24th of August in1991 Ukraine was proclaimed an independent state) So happy Ukraine-independence to everybody =))))
Slava Ukraini! :)
Lesya

Friday 24 August 2007

С днем рождения Юличка!!!


Happy Birthday Julka!! So, big party tonight? Where have you been, what have you been up to? Give us some news!! Пожалуйста.....


Wednesday 22 August 2007

elections on 16th of September!


Tervist!

I know that this post may seem weird but I felt very jealous when last April we were all talking about French Presidential elections so now that we have our delegational elections I want to tell everybody:) So, our system is simple: we have a parliament of 300 delegates and the president of the first party is the Prime minister and the most powerful guy around (not taking into consideration background alliances and agreement ofcourse) for 4 years. Late years there are two big parties that change places in government: ND (nea dimokratia) from the right wing (actually more central-right) which is in power now and PASOK (panellinio sosialistiko kinima) which is supposed to be a socialist party by name but actually is more like center, central-left(?!). These big parties take about 90% of total votes in elections since our "goal" is the American two-parties system (popular in modern republics). We also have a real:) communist party that gets about 6% and one more kind of left party. Thats our current parliament's composition but there are fears that nationalist party will do it and get in the parliament this year...


Thats our current prime minister and leader of ND (the one on the left:)





This is the leader of opposition and leader of PASOK Georgios Papandreou

This is the general secretary of Greek Communist Party, Aleka Papariga (the one on the left:)

We also have a President whose biggest power is that his election can lead to delegational elections. The President is elected by the parliament every 5 years and if no candidate takes at least 200 out of 300 votes that means new delegational elections immediately. Thats why late years the two big parties agry to some candidate so they dont need to be voted all the time (the pre election period is quite expensive for candidates and the delegate's salary good;)

This is our President, Karolos Papoulias.

Being a President actually is a very nice job. You can have it for minimum 5 years with the chance to get elected for 5 more maximum, you live in a nice place (known as President's house), you travel a lot, you go to nice parties and you have absolutely no worries (Prime minister worries for everything).

So, on 16th of September it's elections' time:) Elections is, as journalists like to call the procedure, "the festival of democracy" and the only time that politicians call you "the people that have power" and not "malakes" :)

Gigi, giving lessons of political science

The latest from Tallinn

Tere party people:

yesterday, after 4 days with no internet connection, when I read this blog I was SO happy!! I'm really proud of almost all of us! It is a pleasure to read gigant posts or small notes and comments! Even those who answered Gg's e mail not via blog (like Mr Kê) promissed to write here... so let's go!
I wanted to share with you that this weekend was a very special one, in Tallinn. We met the 3 new volunteers that came for Kê's project. So, to welcome them I made cake au jambon, fromage et aux olives, and we gathered in my flat. I was so happy to have the flat full again... cause Sete had 3 friends here and Katha brought the girls from the workcamp.

Amèlie, Jonathan and Simon were there as well and we had a lot of fun!


So, from the 3 girls in Asunduse Kindergarten, this is Dorota, from Poland. She is the one that will be in Kêlig's group, working with Kay. She is 23, was Erasmus in Sweden, is very smart and pragmatic, has a nice sense os humor and looks like a girl full of power! She will stay for 6 months.

This is Natia, 24, from Georgia. More quiet and shy, she is very keen in body contact, I mean, as a southern person! She has this amaizing smile that is is very keen on showing. Easy going and funny, Natia can also be a bit lazy... and she like shooping!
From Katriin, 26, Berlin, I have no picture as good as these ones. But she is nice and sometimes seems like Laura II... Vegetarian, alergic to some stuff (like pure milk, but she can drink it wth chocoolate or coffe...) and always ready to make nice jokes about food! She likes DnB and makes a lot of stange questions! I guess we will get a long, quite good.
So on Saturday we went to von Krahl to some very stange party but we had fun... we went to Angel (me Katha and Simon) and ended up in Levist... it was a very long night!
Of course on Sunday I did not move till 6 o'clock, when I went to meet Maris (who is back after one month travelling) and Thomas. And we decided to go to the Zoo on the next day... As it was the second independence day the entrance was for free... so me, Thom, the new 3 gils, Maris and a friend went with tones of other people to the zoo. we even made a pic nic there! It was very nice! When we got back to town we tried this new eating place calle "EAT" (www.eat.ee). the Pelmenids they have are good, but of course not as good as Lena's... but the best thing is that they have beer for 25 EEK... So, I guess we just found a new place to hang out =)

So, these are the latest news... see you soon

Sunday 19 August 2007

Missssssssssss uuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So here I'm, after 2 weeks in the middle of nowhere (I was so crazy that agreed to lead a workcamp just after I arrived) working in mud and having my brain fucked by one of coorganisers:( I'm coming back to kiev and back to my i-net.
So I love you all and promise to read all mails and comments you've sent.
Please don't think I forgot you, 'cause you are braking my heart.
Цілую і обіймаю всіх міцно!!!!
Lena

Saturday 18 August 2007

ciao guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ciao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so...l m back, my environmental trip is over. l m really really tired l don t know how we menaged to do that: working under 40 degrees, 14hours...l m completly black but l can t send you pictures because l didn t take them (no time) the journalist took many of it but she didn t find time to burn on a dvd.

l saw your post and l m really happy but l didn t read yet...l came back 10 minutes ago , l will do it tomorrow.....maybe:)

ok people after university and this trip l really need to be relaxed...are you agree? if you are not....you are an asshole!!!!!!!

good luck people......

barabara l saw one of your post....are you crazy? It s longer than bibble...who inspired you? ratzinger maybe!!!!

hasta siempre!!!!!

New hometown...well almost.

Now it's final.
I know where I'll study!!!!

MÜNSTER !

what...you've never heard of it? Well...that's not so much of a surprise.
It's a rather small town in my state with about 280.000 people, BUT more than a fifth of them are students! So...a very good students life and a lot of good bars ;-)
And it's very typical to go by bike EVERYWHERE! In Münster there are more bikes than inhabitants (about half a million bikes).

So…that's where I’ll be. and I am excited about it! It's the perfect students city for me: small, green, nice OldTown but full of life. and a good university.

On Tuesday the latest I'll already go over there to find a place to live. Somehow. It will be quite difficult, because of all the new students. I already heard a lot of stories about trying to find a place, but i hope I'll manage.
I hope someone wants to live in an apartment with me.

!!!:)


Hello!!
Sorry for not responding your comments, guys, but for me with this f*cking low-speed internet it’s the same time to put a post and to make a comment. But thanks for the welcoming comments. Actually, our blog is quite alive – a lot of new posts with nice pictures. The only thing we need to do is to attract French people somehow (except Aude). :) Guess we should come out with some kind of PR campaign :))
About myself – of cause each of my days is very special (someone has damnly good memory here, eh GG? ;)) Do you remember everything we’ve spoken?), putting a picture of night Kiev, during summer it’s the same as any big city – loud, dusty, hot. I finished your post Barbara, very nice:) Actually, I liked it more than Times in a way – you know this correspondent’s strict style ;))))
Love you all,
L ;)

Friday 17 August 2007

Nothing special. But I still love you:)

Hello people:)
Some things last days have inspired me to post information. Sorry for my disappearance, but it’s just that during last month nothing interesting happened to me. I haven’t moved anywhere, nobody came to visit me, nothing has changed around. Ok, one thing changed inside – in my flat windows and heaters have been changed. So now I have nice windows like in Mahtra’s flat ;)
And, after all, when nothing changes it’s not that bad – when there is no news it still can be considered as good news.
But that (that nothing has changed) doesn’t mean I’ve forgot you. I remember you and miss you, and miss the time in Estonia. And, yeah, Aude where is the recipes’ book?:) It’s not like I’ll manage to cook something properly but I’d like to see it (Sometime after coming back I made Far Breton, but nobody appreciated my masterpiece in French cuisine, so I’ve decided not to do it again). Lee, I’m sorry for not responding your comments (I don’t have broadband internet for now, using dial-up and it takes quite a time to post anything) and thanks a lot for the post “to Lesya”, it was very in time, as I stayed at home alone with all my friends left to travel somewhere and it cheered me up. Barbara’s last post was so solid in size that I’ve saved it as I usually do with big articles from Times and am going to read it recently.
That’s all for so far about my Ukrainian news.
Bisous-bisous,
Kisses,
Lesya:)

Thursday 16 August 2007

the sevens of life

(This is a post that I wrote for my personal blog. But Gigi conviced me to translate it and post it here!)

Today is my 7 months birthday in Estonia. 2007 has been a very important year for me, also because I always like number 7 so much... I still have 4 months here!
Since January I have welcomed 7 portuguese people here: Pedro, Dani and Cati (from SJM to the world), Raquel and Zé (travelling to where love can take us), Daniela (from Fafe to Latvia) and Nuno (EVS in the South of Estonia).
there are 7 things I discovered since I am here:

1- onde day I may become a (more) patient person
2 - I don't like Till
3 - Play on the swon is cool
4 - the mid-night sun exists and it is amaizing
5 - it is possible to be friend with people that have nothing to do with me
6 - I like more people from the south (till the Mediterranean) than from the north
7 - at this distance one can measure some friendships...

Let's see what I will think about Estonia in 7 years. And if I wii still keep as friends tha 7 more importante people for me in this experience!

So, Happy birthday to me! And to Alice... I am sorry I forgot or got the wrong day... I need your adress to send you your present!
Thank you Barbara for make me travel a bit with your words. See you in Berlin!
Lena, don't disapear, please!!!!
Aude, now that Denmark is over... what about the cooking book?? You can just post some recipes here (I want to eat K's ham and olives cake...)
All the others: GIVE SOME NEWS, PALUN!!!

yours, Miss -almost in Berlin- Lee

Monday 13 August 2007

Back in Germany.....

Tere tere!

You told me to write in this blog so here I am! I would hae posted something sooner, but in Poland there isn't wifi eerywhere and in the hotel it was broken. I didn't arrive home before this morning so now is the time....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALICE!!! A little bit late I know...sorry. I hope you had a nice birthday!

DAY 1

Right now I am sitting in the train station of Warszawa Zdochnia and I am waiting for ages for my train. Of course I missed the one which left shortly after I arrived here (maybe the luggage was a little bit too much to carry after all). I think my train is at 12:50 (I arrive here shortly after 9), but I have no idea and I don’t really know when I’ll ever arrive in Wroclaw. I really hope I will still manage today. But hey…I’m always open for surprises.

By the way…yes I did have to pay extra for my luggage, when we changed the bus in Riga. Aaaaahh…what a mess that was. But luckily there was a Polish guy who spoke perfect German and he helped me to translate and I got my stuff in the bus after all.

And the best of it all…I forgot my toothbrush! So a perfect day this is. Gosh…I’m so glad when I arrive at this fucking station in Wroclaw. It’s quite boring to sit around this freaking station for 4 hours with nothing really to do (all my books are squeezed into a free corner of any of my suitcases, which I do not dare to open).to open.

Yeah…just as I am writing this as train to the city where I’m supposed to go to catch my train arrived….so gotta go!

Ok…that was too much of enthusiasm. I got the train. I arrived at Radom.

Just to find out that the train to Wroclaw goes TWICE A DAY! I am really developing a deep hate against Polish train stations and employees of the train company now. How can you give a person a connection that you will not she will miss (the lady in Warszawa got me a train which left one minute after I had the ticket in my hand!!) and that goes fucking twice a day.

So I am looking forward to another 8 hours in the middle of nowhere in Poland with to much luggage to move around the city. And then a night in the train, until I finally arrive at 6:44 the next day (meaning Thursday).

Lovely.

Just lovely.

I need a beer.

DAY 2

There was no beer. The only shop in the train station was closed already. Nevertheless I spend the 8 hours fine and did more or less useful things. It’s amazing what you can do in 8 hours at a train station. Do your nails, do your toenails, I painted my mobile phone again (all the black dots were gone), I read again my travel guide to Estonia (apparently the Estonian youth meets in he Danish Kings Garden to play guitar in the evening, aha?) and I think I have never in my life spend so much time plucking my eyebrows.

As you can see: a very successful day. And believe it or nor…in those 8 hours not a single person actually talked to me. I guess there are people that are quieter than Estonians.

In the train I met a nice guy though…a students that was going to his girlfriend’s sister’s wedding or something.

Anyway…some of you have seen my entire luggage. I hurled it all into the train somehow and then it turned out that the train was one of those with separate compartments. In general those are quite cool but there is hardly any space for luggage. So I entered one that was not full yet. I managed to put one of my bags onto those suitcase-holder-thingies on the wall, put my big suitcase in the middle of the compartment, put my small suitcase on my seat and then I sat on it with my feet on my big suitcase and my backpack on my lap. So not a very comfortable position for sleeping. The nice guy (forgot his name already) took my backpack then and after some time someone else left so I actually had some place to sit after a while. But still not much sleep.

Finally in Wroclaw I was so fucking happy to give away my luggage to this luggage place and then after an unsuccessful search for a shower(well the bathroom of McDonalds was just as fine, I guess), I went with my things to the park, had breakfast and enjoyed the morning sun until I met my friend at 13 o clock.

That was really nice.

And I was quite happy to see my friend as well. She also made an EVS for half a year in Poland, so she knew how I was feeling and didn’t ask any stupid “so…how is Estonia” questions. It was really good to talk to her as first person from home again. It’s good to have someone who knows what it’s like. Also it was nice to enjoy the hot summer day with a couple of beer in the street bars.

After an odyssey through the town we finally managed to meet my dance group. So…much more beer now.

It's strange to meet them all again at once. Some of them have change so much and some are stuck in exactly the same place as they were more than 1 year ago. Or maybe I’m still stuck in my head in my Tallinn life. We will see how it goes. During the next days.

I’m looking forward to it. I didn’t have the chance to talk to everyone yet and I am curious to get to know some of them again in a new light.

And I also got warned that I have to catch up with the rest and learn quite a few dances by tomorrow noon so I can perform with the rest by the afternoon. Aaah….

By the way…I got sunburned…AGAIN. It was so freaking ht today, about 36 degrees, it really felt like the Bahamas or something especially since the Tallinn wind is missing.

I miss you all already and it really meant a lot to me that you came to the bus station to say goodbye!

Musi, musi,

Barbara

DAY 3 + 4

Well…let me tell you one thing about my dance group. In a way the group is a lot like me. We disorganised, we don’t care so much that we are, we are always late and we like beer. A lot. And luckily beer is cheap in Poland and also come in 0,5 l glasses. So life’s good here.

So far.

We did a tour around the city today and that was quite nice. Wroclaw is a nice city.

I enjoyed that part although I was still in my morning mood for almost the whole day.

Then we danced, then we drank some beer then we perform and guess what we did after that…we drank beer.

Basically this went the whole time. One evening we had a performance in a small village of 15 ppl or something like that and about a third of them actually cam o see us and later it was said there would be disco. We expected something really really lame but as soon as they brought the Vodka bottles we knew it would be a fun evening, and it was! They gave each table 2 bottles.

So…we were drunk. Some more some less and as I tried to help one of us out of the toilet (she locked herself in, was to drunk to open and her head was hanging over the trash bin) I pretty much bruised my whole arm. I guess those toilet bowl are not always as steady as they seem.

Anyway...I was quite drunk and I even spoke some Russian with some of the villagers. Quite funny…

Well…there’s not much more to say about what we did or so on.

It’s was nice to be on trip with my group…a good way to get used to people again step by step. And to have so many people around me. I would have died I think if I had gone straight back to my small hometown.

Now I am back in my hometown since this morning. Strange feeling. I entered my old room to go to bed and it felt like going back in time.

It was not like going home but like going into the past. Everything here seems so old now and also so juvenile. It feels like the room of a 14year old.

I pretty much emptied out my wardrobe and get rid of all the clutter that has been sitting there for so long.

Right now I’m a bit bored, since no one seems to have time for me. Most of my friends are working or busy with school stuff, with their boyfriends/girlfriends or not in town, so I hope there’s still someone that finds some time for me. I really don’t feel like spending my first evening in Germany sitting in front of the TV with my parents.

How are things in Tallinn, Greece, France Italy and wherever else you are?

I miss you all a lot!!!

Musi, musi

Barbara

Friday 10 August 2007

Joyeux anniversaire Alice !

i want to say something special for a nice special french girl !!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS !!! Enjoy this day like you must ven without us and don't worry i don't forget yon on this date.

And see you soon.

BISOUS BISOUS

Aude

Just some pictures

Hey !
I came back yesterday from all my trip ! Now i'm at home and i have some time to put some pictures here....


It's me at the airport !!

Me and my sister somewhere in Danmark.

No coments...

A nice view near the camping, you can see the weather is beautiful lol !

ANd the last one just for the fun !!

I hope all is good for you and you spend a lot of nice moment where you are.


Wednesday 8 August 2007

tere!!!!

Tere tere people!!! I just returned from "We will SUrvive" the AEGEE-Patra summer university (for more information about that check my blog, www.traintrip.blogspot.com dont make me to write twice the same things:) I just post here a picture of all the group of people from Greece, Armenia, Netherlands, Turkey, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany and Belgium! It was a bit like our EVS international group in Tallinn, I felt a bit like in Estonia.


Our international group in front of the theatre of Epidavros.
So, after two weeks of taking care of a group of 30 people, I feel that now I need vacations:) Just before I left I had an interview for a master course I want to follow next semestre and it went well. So, probably from October I will be a student again. I am a bit afraid cause the break was quite big, after one year back to studies, I hope it will work.
This is more or less my news. I m waiting for yours!!!
PS. Lee asked before, but not everybody wrote it down. I m talking about your home adressess. I want to have the adress of all of you, I miss some. Could you please post them here? PPPaaaalllluuuuunnnnn!!!!!
Filia, Gigi.

Tuesday 7 August 2007

Holid.... what???

Tervist!

It's true, Aude! No one likes writting on this blog... I start doubting why I created it!! =(
But as I still want it to replace e-mails, I will answer your questions!

So, I am fine! It looks like the summer finally got to Estonia!! It doesn't rain for almost one week, and the temperatures are really nice!! So, yeah, I am still in Tallinn, WoRkInG!

Last last weekend was the Viljandi Folk Festival! It was extremely nice!!! a lot of nice music, normal people, cute guys... It was really nice!!

that's us (me and the german corner!) on the hanging bridge!

Then, Lena, Emrah, Doro and Camille (Parnu) left... and we had our mid term in Sooma, south Estonia! It was really nice, with a Kanoo trip instead of a hike =) As usually we staied in a very nice place, in the middle of the forest!



so, we were just 6: 3 french and the rest of the world =P but we hd lots of fun, sauna twice, barbeque and a lot of talking...
then we came back to Tallinn and Camille and Laura (Viljandi) were gone but Juksuur is OPEN!!!! we wanted to go there on saturday, but we staied outside drinking CCM and when we got there it was closed, already...
but yesterday, for Barbara's last evening (she leaves today in 7 hours) we went there!



so here she is on the new couch!! So, yes, two new sofas, a small smoking room (just behind the hairdresser chairs) and a glass dividing the twoo rooms... Our corner now has blue floor and new pillows! But some things never change!

So, Aude, I am sorry, but I am not planning go to France in the next months... but to Ukrain... flights from Tallinn are very cheap by now (130 euros)!! So maybe, Lena and Lesya... prepare yourselfs!! And Aude, how was in Denmark? and PEOPLE where have you been??? It was very nice to "read" about Kêlig, Alice and Lena! But you could write something here... post some pictures... I miss seeing your smiles =)

I have to work, now... =/

see you around

Miss - almost in Berlin- Lee

Monday 6 August 2007

To everybody !!

Tere tere !!
How are you ? Where are you ? What are you doing ?
Since a long time nobody write something on this nice blog. You are all in hollidays somewhere in Europa ?

Since wednesday i'm in France and now i'm in Narbonne for a few time. I enjoy the sun, the swimming pool and my boyfriend lol !!

I wanted to know if someone plan to come in France at the begining of this school year. Because i live quite far from the other so i must plan a bit before you come.

Have a nice holidays and enjoy all !!!

BISOUS BISOUS

Aude

PS : i have a lot of picture to put on this blog but can't do this now so when i will be at home i will put a lot of pictures.