your EVS family loves you

tere tere Kallis!

i am just writting to thank you all involved in my Xmas present that : I LOVE IT!!!! i know xmas is just on the way, but I guess I already got the best present!!

for the ones who have no clue on what I am talking about: last friday I got a very special mail in my box! a beautiful 2010 calendar made with pictures of you guys! well, of us!!! almost everyone is there! there are pictures of some sauna parties, trips, chocolate cakes, vabaduse paev, sledging in Kumu... Vaga ilus, Extra ilus, ilus ilus ilus!! and on the first page, where there is a picture of St. Petersburg (by the beach), one can read

your EVS family loves you

and I love you too guys! this was the best present I could get: a love letter to read everyday of 2010! my english is gettin rusty and I cant express it better, but I am really thankfull for this gift! and a very special thanks to Aude, who made the whole deal and posted it! aitah aitah!!

Some news from France

Tere tere lovely people,
I don't forget you but you know time spend to fast...
and nothing happens on my life but i'm looking every day our blog.

Nothing change about my work, every 2 mounths they make me a new contrat but I don't know how it will work.

Even if I didn't travel abroad, I went to see some people in France, so I will show you some pictures. First I went to Marseille (raynair start to have some direct fly only in France) and second to Orléans (it's in the south of Paris) and my next trip is to Finland. I will go there for Christmas to see my sister.

The Calanques

Somewhere in Marseille

Les îles du Frioul (it's just in front of Marseille)

Have a nice end of week-end and see you soon.
Musi musi
Audé !

we are still alive in Tallinn!!

Tere tere loving people

how are your lives going?? this blog is about to die if you dont upload it!! =P
i am writting to share with you something that made me truly happy! ytou may know I interrupt mu blog cause of my mum's desease. Last week, after very good news I decided to put my blog back on track. the first comment I got was from a Portuguese girl, EVS volunteer in Tallinn!!!

I translate

"Tere...

I spent several hours reading your blog!! Since the day I knew I was coming to Tallinn also on EVS...google... and I found this blog...
I am now in Tallinn... got here one month ago... I guess you were here very recently, a friend of yours that I've met in Levist told me (a french guy, sorry I can't remember his name, Levist...).. I also realize you know João Caridade, my friend... same classe in uni at Caldas... I have been to others volunteers place (at Mustamae), e your name is there on the map, representing Oporto...
Just wanna tell you that I like to read you... and that you are still present here in Tallinn... and that the world is very small.. and Estonia even more!!

Baci...

Inês"

how sweet, cute and important is that, hum?!!?!? htis comment made me feel really good. it made me think that if one person remembers me, thean someone else may remember all of us!! We are still present, still there!! Even if they broke the wall at Lasname, we are still in the walls of Mustamae!! =)
i really need to share this!
musi musi

Some summer memories:)

Tere tere!

I feel a bit embarrassed for being that late with my post, but I always think about you all, and wanted to put here few pictures from my vacation trip in August. I was travelling with my brother, which was nice since we were alone in Spain.

It was nice to see Barcelona and it was so hot comparing to Estonia ;), but I must say that Paris was my favorite part of the trip, because I had chance to meet all the people I missed and Amelie and Jonathan were the best hosts you can wish for.

So to put it short: Barcelona was hot and Paris was friendly and tasty :).

Estonian cheese party in Perrine's flat )))

Crepes for ever:)))

No comments ;)

Siesta time in Parc Guell

Last evevning in Barcelona :).

I hope you all are doing great and hope to see more of you next summer.

Summer is almost over for you european people, but for me, it's just starting....

Tere tere loving people,
how are you??
A little post to give you some news about my south america trip. After spending 2 months in Vilcabamba, Ecuador, lost into the wild, 4 hours horsing in the mountains, in the middle of nowhere, as you can guess, we're now in Peru, in Chachapoyas, visiting the area of the clouds' people... It's an amazing country: people are so nice and so welcoming, landscapes are so beautiful, and the way of life so different. The life seems so easy, there are no rules for nothing, no bus stop, no timetables, no traffic law, no real roads........ Lee, i'm thinking about you quite often: you hate travelling by bus, but here, you don't have any other choice, and the minimun to join 2 cities, is, at least, 7 hours..... especially in the north, because it's not touristic at all, so, nothing is done!!! But whatever, i'm really spending so nice moments and it's difficult to say my feelings right now, because, i'm like in a whirl....... But i'm thinking about all of you.....
If you wanna see some pictures, let's go on www.vadrouillou.canalblog.com.
Next stop will be in Iquitos, amazonia, the only city where you can go only by boat on the amazon river, there is no road!!!!!
Musi musi to everyone,
And see you...............

a week in Tallinn

tere tere

I just realized i haven't told you or showed you how was my week in Tallinn, in the end of August (thanks for reminding Kê)!
So, Of course my week was just great! I stayed over Thomas', got a chance to meet his lovely building and flat mates! I also realized that Hansa Pank doesn't exist anymore (it's SwedBank now), most of the food has the same price, Hell Hunt is exactly the same (even the pasta with smoked salmon tastes the same) and Levist is not the same, anymore (because of the dance floor and the 2 new toilets!)!

so, I leave you here with some pictures, just a few! I must confess that I took few few pictures during my week. the truth is I didnt feel like a tourist, shooting at everything. and altough I did not feel like a local (but I never ever did), i felt I was back home, after a long abset period! Kristiina contibuted to this feeling by picking me up at the airport with a nice Saku Ice bottle with a "Welcome home" sticker on it!! =)


this is the new monument to Estonian Freedom, set on Vabaduse Valjak! Finally the square is really a square, not a parking lot anymore! the opening was on August 20th, just one day after i arrived in Tallinn! Vabaduse looks really nice, now!

oh I missed those!!!

a sound installation I saw in Kumu! Yes I went there! And to Kadriorg, Kalamaja, Pirita, Baltijam... around the city centre, a lot! didnt go to the suburbs nor out of Tallinn!!

so, some of you migth be wondering who wrote some oriental stuff on the post cards you got... Well, Qho did! this nice south corean boy was living upstairs Thomas flat! We spend a lot of time together, as he was leaving Tallinn the same day I did. funny and smart, Qho was also able to cook very well, as you can see, and send you all best wishes!!

so, you all remember Margo (on the left), Maris' brother! He and Thom are not sharing the flat anymore, but they still live in the same building, just next door! This nice girl is the new flatmate of Thomas! Her name is Inga, and she is Estonian, from Tallinn! She is funny, smart and talkative!! A really nice girl, always ready to help, and very sweet! Oh! her name is Inga!!

so, there is Lena and Rocio (Thom's butterfly)!! One of the best things about this trip was meeting Rocio (and seeing Lena again, of course!). the thing is that I am very happy to finally meet this girl that makes Thom so happy! She is damn nice!! I couldn't believe!! They make such a nice couple, so sweet and funny! This was the most positive thing: to see our friends are doing great, to know that Thom has fopund the love and that the love has found him!!

remember the kitchen parties?? so, we had one! It was a Lee and Qho fareweel small party that ended up in Levist (like all other nights I was in Tallinn)! at Thom's kitchen there were people from Portugal, France, S.Corea, Spain, Ukrain, Estonia, Japan and Finland!!! Some things never change!!

oh yes!! I was there as well!! Just in case someone doubted!!
I had a great time!!! for sure!! Thanks to Thom, Kristiina, Lena, Rocio, Qho and everyone I met there (again or for the first time!)
oh! I would like to read or see something about your vacations as well!!
Musi musi

Going abroad...

tere lovely people.

i'll leave the usual apologies out and just write a short post about life in berlin.

i'm leaving the country in less than 3 weeks. i'm going to Stockholm untill january to contine my studies at Södertörns Högskola in south stockholm. it's the beginning of my 3rd university year already, i can't believe we left estonia two years ago already. sometimes i hate time for passing so quickly. ;)

i am very excited, but also a bit afraid because i know it's not going to be like in estonia. i will live with many many other erasmus-students, but not even two hundred of them could ever substitute the eesti family.

so anyways, if you have never been to sweden, i think now would be a good time. ;)

i will also do an internship at my university, so i will be busy, but i can always take some time off and i think i will have many visitors from berlin anyways.

i love you and i think about all of you a lot.

i will try to write more often when i'm in sweden (as usually)

musi, kalli.

Laura

A piece of news

Tere tere!

It s me, Gigi :D Just wanted to say hello and share a bit of news with all of you! Although in Greece summer is wonderful (just remember the big hit "summer in Greece" that I introduced you when in Estonia :D) I m getting more and more busy these days and I dont enjoy so much our great sea... Till end of July I ll be working with my professor on my thesis and then in August and September I have to find the courage to write it.... I have to do it now, cause in November I m joining the army :) Yes, from November on for 8 months I ll serve my military service so I have to finish with everything before that.... :)

I hope you enjoy the summer... Miss you all

Gi

Some pictures about my trips !!

Tere tere

As I promise to Lee thursday I put some picture about my holidays in Europa...
I just want to say that Barcelona and Tallinn were very nice. I enjoyed both of my trips as much as I could.
The fisrt one to Barcelona was a bit to hot for me but anyway, I walk a lot during the day and saw my sister the evening. I don't want to put to much picture because Lena will go there in August and I don't want she knows all before going there... :-)

A nice view from the montain near Barcelona.

Gaudi's style

And for my trip to Estonia, it was very very nice to see Tallinn again ( you will see Lee, it's so good to come back there). I went there with Perrine and Pierre (from Parkla) and we sleep in Thomas's home.

The parad before Laulupidu

Do you know someone on the picture ? A group picture for Kelig :

Tansupidu in Kalev's stadium
And The Laulupidu :I will post some other pictures and comment quite soon.
Take care of you, enjoy your summer and travel a lot !!
Musi musi to all of you and much more to Lee

a new chapter of my life

tere tere everyone;

i am very sorry for being so absent here... but this time I do have a good good reason! well, it is not good, at all, but you will undrestand. My mum has been diagnosed a cancer, 2 weeks ago. As you can imagine my life gave a 360º loop, with no net underneath! I shut down my personal blog, for lack of time. and all the free time i have now I spend it in the hospital, where she is staying.
i was a bit relkutant about posting this information on the web, but I rather do it here, than sending an e-mail to each and every person. I really felt the need to share this with you, cause we may not see or talk to each other for quite a long time, but I do feel you as my close friends. and for this, i need to feel you support, to know that you care, that you are there for me! the help of my portuguese friends has been great, but I feel my heart is lacking something, and this is the armastus of my eesti family!
i need to get back to work now. i am sorry to drop this information without any preparation on you... but, i was really in the need to share it... and I would also like to have some news about everyone! The german girls... Aude and Perrine, how was Laulupidu? GG and Chri, what's up? russian speakers readers of this blog: show your selves!! Ben, Ben... where are you? Thomas, and the rest of the people still in Eesti... this is the time when i would really aprreciate a word from you guys! Love you

musi musi

(PS - untill anything in contrary, my trip to Estonia is still ok. i am not planning on giving it up)

l'm not dead, at least not yet :) (part two)

Ciao my friends!!!!!!
do you remember of me? l m that lazy italian ex-volunteer in that cold country in the north of europe called Estonia l guess :)
how start....well in april l had two surgery operation at the sacral bounce, the second one was to cure the damnage of the first one :S but it s done and I dont want think about it. As you may know l m involved in politcal activity here and in june we had municipality election, so l was candidate and l had a nice experience because to campaign l went into the house of the people promoving myself, our political project etc....really nice experience. we didn t win of course hehehehehehehe, actually we knew that's why our target was just to get a representant in the oposition and we did!!!!!!!! and l had a really good score, 68 people voted directly for me!!!!!! l was the first elected on my list, actually l was the sourprise of this election because l was the youngest candidate and l had a lot of votes heheheheheh yes I m happy about it :)
so now l have just to write this f...ing thesis...pffff
on the second of july l ll go to spain for 15 days, I have to look after a gropu of teenagers whos is going there for a studying-holiday...and in august I ll do the same but in notthingam where l hope to meet roobin hood.
so l wish you all the best and a lot of kisses from italy.....always in my heart and my mind!!!!!!!!!!
love you!!!!
chri-chri

Tere tere loving people!!

Hope everybody is fine with the summer coming...... In brittany, it's raining cats and dogs (thanks Lee :-) ) since 5 days now!!!

Whatever, just to give you some news: I'm back to france since the beginning of may, and i'm preparing my next trip for.......... South America!!! Departure the 27th of june.
And so, with Mimie, we made a blog (and you can be proud of us because we are quite shitty usually with internet, computers, and stuffs, but, we managed quite well and the blog is open!!)

So, if you want to follow our trip and adventures in south america, you can log in www.vadrouillou.canalblog.com. Of course; it will be mostly in french (but pictures are universal), but i promise you that i will put english posts sometimes, for sure......

So have fun and enjoy your life everytime and everywhere, and let's see each other in september 2010 in Greece...

Love,

Ké

mini-EVS meeting in Paris!!

Tere tere people

As you may know I just spent some days in France! I was in Paris just for one day and 2 nights and then Kêlig took me to this amaizing green and sunny place called Brittany!!


so, in Paris, we had a mini-EVS meeting! As you can see (in the only picture I have...) we gathered Amelie, Katha, Perrine (from Pahkla), Jonathan, me and Kêlig! was sooooooo nice! we had nice fondue dinner and then some beers in Amelie Poulain's coffe place! we even had a last beer close to the Moulin Rouge for just something like 140 EEK!!! eh eh eh
in that fondue restaurant we even found some Eesti bank notes!!


and then, next day, we moved to Brittany!! so, we made a 400 km trip, up north! On the way, i must say that I saw more cows than ever!! they are everywhere!! so, we went for a visit in

Mont Saint Michel, beautifull place!! Maybe you will remember because it was the desktop image of Aude's laptop! yes??

we then spent a evening in Rennes, where Mimie, Aude and Jessy joined us! it was a nice place, but, my favourite part of this trip (along with the EVS meeting) was Kelig's place!! I was amazed with the green beautifull sea, the triangular roof houses made of stone... you should go to St. Malo, if you can! It's lovely!

so, there we are: Ke, Mimie, Aude and me! oh, and our friend wind was there too!!
we had really nice time there, eating good stuff all the time!! Kêlig was a good guide to his own city and I guess we were the first visits he received...

and after the Baltic Sea, we had to try the "Mancha Sea"!
during these days, together with Aude and Kêlig, we were thinking about where we would like to go for our next EVS meeting... and, we think that it could be really really nice to visit Georgios in Patra!! i guess most of the people have never been in Greece, and maybe we can have a cheap meeting blessed with good weather... so, what do you think about this??

i leave you with this song, that could be our motto: "Universal traveller"!!
see you soon somewhere!!

Happy birthday LAURA

I'm so sory but I forgot your birthday.
I hope you spent a very nice day and you had a lot of present !!
How are you ? What are you doing, still studing scandinavian cultur ?
What are you plan for next year ?

For me all is GOOD, I just took my plane ticket to Tallinn.
I will come for Laulupidu with Perrine. We will arrive the 27th of June around 14:20.
I hope all of you will come.

Have a nice time in you country and see you soon

Musi musi

Audé

"good luck" flower

Hello,
maybe you don't know but my work at the hospital stopt last friday.
Don't be sade for me, I already found an other job...
Ok it's only for one week but it's always money !

My new job is cutting muguet or Lily of Valley. You know the little flower you can only buy the 1° of may.
In France it's a "good luck" flower.

The work is not that nice but it's outside and the weather is very nice so all is good for me !!

Hope to ear about you soon and to see you too
Musi musi

Audé

To Miss - HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Lee

All the best for your birthday!!! May all your wishes come true and may all your enemies have bad acne ;-)

Hopefully you're doing well and are still able to party a bit on your birthday although it's "Good Friday" ! Because here in Germany ALL the clubs are closed and there's no dancing allowed (don't I live in a developed and liberal country?).

Musi, Barbara

Happy Birthday Lena!

I m a bit late, but my wishes are true :D A very happy happy birthday to you Lena, hope you are doing fine in Tallinn and the preparation of the youth exchange with Armenian youth is not too annoying :D

Musi,

G.

My trip to Kêlig paradise !!

Tere tere,
All is fine for me and even more because i'm not working today !
As some of you know I was with Flavien in Switzerland.
I spent a great time there with Kelig, the snow and his wonderfull flat and balcony :-)

I post some pictures just for you...

...... to know how was Lesyn !!

Vevey, a little city near the Leman's lac

I hope my next trip will be in May in Saint Malo to see Lee and Kelig but i still don't know where I will be !
My work contrat is only until the 20th of April and after I don't know yet what i will do.
Maybe holidays, who knows......

Geneva

Kêlig's balcony

The snow, the montains and again the snow....

Just an other one....
Musi musi and take care of you

hey... wanna come?

"where, where?"

- would you ask.

"To Estonia!!" - i would say!

eh eh! i just booked my summer trip to estonia. I can't make it ti Laulupidu, so... i'll be there August (19th-26th). I'm quite excited!!

so, he... wanna come?

Spring is in Portugal. Where are you??

Tere tere everyone!!

after almost one month away, i hope we ALL can bring our blog back to life!! =)
so, i am writting for 1, 2... some reasons!!!

first -> spring arrived to Portugal with all it's power! temperatures are rising, rain has stopped... we are a happy country now!

second -> maybe you heard (i know the germans did) about that portuguese guy missing in Berlin. We was found dead in the river... nothing to say, just to let you know

third ->i miss you all guys!! =) i will not be able to make it to Laulupidu... but, i am planning to visit Eesti in August, the last week. Right now I can only think about my trip to France!

forth and the real reason why i am writting -> is to let you know that

Portugal is the country, in Europe, with the cheapest hotels!!

.
it is on the news today that the Hotel Price Index (www.hotels.com) points 77 euro as an average for a night in a portuguese hotel!! (instead of 87 euro average charged last year).

In opposition, Switzerland is the only country in Europe where the prices actually went up, in the last months!! It has the most expensive hotels in Europe, 144 euro avarage per night!

Now, guess which city has the most expensive hotels in the world.... If you said Moscow, you are right!! 231 euro per night to sleep in russian capital.

so, all this, just to let you know that i live in this cheap, sunny country, with 1000 km of sea side and a lot of good food to offer!! Book your trips to Portugal!!

(oh yes, my government pays me to advertise like this!! eheh)

Love you all

Musi musi

stop smoking

In estonia I get a smoker, I tried many times to quit with this nightmare but didn t work because l thought it was difficult. then l met carr allen with his book and thank s at it l discovered that stop smoking it s really easy. I m not a smoker anymore:) and you know? even in the "smoking time and moment" I was and I m really happy to don t be involved in that shit anymore.....let s do a reaserch on google about "carr allen- easy way to stop smoking" than win against your fears and read the book!!!!!!
kisses

Crazy Carnival in Portugal

Tere Dear friends!

maybe you dont remember... but Carnival in Estonia was damm boring!! Me, Julk, Lena and Thomas went to some crazy brazilian party... but I was dreaming about Carnival in Portugal. Last year i was in a Youth Exchange, so no celebration, for me... this year, I had it all!! Great party with my friends, on the streets of Ovar, a city by the coast that has great tradition in Carnival.

So, do you remember Pedro? He was in Estonia in May 2007, and you also met him in Festa do Avante. So he was this cowboy and I has some kind of "bling-bling queen"



at some point of the night, we met a Barcelos cok!! I sent a modern version to some of you! this is the traditional version

and later on we found her friends!!

for me, these were the best costumes of the night! but there were several more!!
We met with Jesus Christ (not Jesus from Spain), some teletubies, hello Kitty's, fireman, and a hole lot of other strange creatures! so, if you enjoyed these pictures, ask for more, and I will show you more!! eh eh

how were your carnival parties??
musi musi

Happy Bday Chri

I know it's passed, but... If I dont greet people for their bdays on this blog... NO ONE DOES IT?!?!
yesterday was a very busy and hard day for me, so no time for blogging... but my wishes of auguri and happy birthday are truthly sincere =)
Hope you had a lot of fun yesterday and that your year that starts now has all the good stuff you deserve!!

musi musi

ukulele , levist väljas and good compagnie

1. yo volunteers and freinds !! just write you some words to reminds you that everythings is still fine and crazy in tallinn and i send you some pictures also !!

take care all :)