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Wednesday, 04 November 2009
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My Interesting Life
Today is my birthday. I now can officially wear Michael Jordan's shirt, if I would have it. Actually, I would like to have it[hint!] =0)
Well, but this is not what I wanted to write here. Since I'm keeping my Estonian blog, I haven't written here for a long time. Just to make it clear - this blog here is for my friends, who are not from Estonia, that they would have a chance to keep on track of my activities... =0) For those, who are really interested in my life and doings;)
So, what has happened lately in my life?! Remember, I wrote about going to Turkey. I was thinking about that already in springtime (as soon as I got back from Poland), but I didn't know yet when exactly I will go..maybe in August... but it turned out that I had a chance to see this country in October. So. Now I have been home for almost two weeks and still I haven't given you any overview about this trip. Sorry! 'm still trying to accept the reality that I'm here.
The seminar where I went was part of Youth In Action Program (Action 1.3 Democracy Project) called "We Owned Our Rights".The dates were from 17th to 22nd of October. It was about the right of the disabled people that are written in UN Convention. Rights that they have, but.. well yeah... There were about 40 people from Turkey, Poland and Estonia. I will try(!) to give you a short summary about it. In my Estonian blog I have 4 entries about it (not short ones). We'll see how it comes out.
My trip started on 15th of October. So I, Marko and Mattias came to Riga's arirport on that evening by bus.
We were there around ten in the evening. Our flight was leaving around 8 in the morning. As soon as we found a quiet corner, I taught boys to play Nertz. Bouda soon joined us, who is from Kenya, is working in London and lives in Paris. Soon Nawid felt the interest of this game. He is from Pakistan, lives in the Netherlands, and was going to Norway to visit her sister. And so there we were playing... I hope that I didn't turn anyone into addict. But anyway, when we finally decided to end the game it was almost four in the morning. Guys fell asleep and I stood guarding them. Soon other Estonians came.
We had small stop in Prague and then we reached to Istanbul. Wow! Istanbul. We had long landing time and I saw the Istanbul . Wow! So great! So beautiful! As soon as I got out of the plane I got to feel many times this so called "culture shock". Then we had quite adventurous bus trip to Mersin, which took us 15 hours to drive. And then we reached finally to people with whom we were meant to meet. So in total it took us 45 hours to come from Tartu to Mersin (it can be done shorter way also! Some of the Estonians took the shorter way but arrived on the next day). On the way there I saw things that I have seen in movies, but only this time it was for real.And it was so nice to be there where the temperature is around 30 all the time. We were staying in a small town called Kizkalesi, in a hostel Inka, which was just on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.There, during these 6 days, we got to know each other better- the culture, language and people. Got to know more about the situation with disabled people in our own countries and in other countries; learned how to make a campaign and got our first experience how to actually run the campaign.I just have to go back someday!
We did it in groups and our group went to Kizkalesi's school. Here's a video from that day. Now we're actually planning another campaign in Tartu. We'll have time till almost the end of December to pull it through. I'm excited about that! Also, we had fun day on the sea and in the Maiden's Castle - "The Yacht Day". But if I could bring out one of my favorite things that we did there, i would say
The AllStars game that we played on the beach - Basketball disabled way. Besides the heros of this seminar, who were in their wheelchairs, all who played got "disability" for that time. I, for example, was with one eye covered, but there were people with one hand or one leg... it was pretty interesting game and got attention from other people on the beach also. But... it kinda opened my mind to another "dimension". It's so weird that I have lived that long and not thought this way or seen these things.. or just... oh it's hard to say. I can say that after this game I needed to take "me time" to think about that experience that i lived through...
And the it was time to leave. Still, we spend a half day in town of Mersin, visiting one of the largest malls in Europe and went to open market. I made a mess by getting kinda "lost", but i had fun.
It was quite hard for me to leave, 'cause I was already so fond of these people...Then we went back to Istanbul for two days and one night. Did some shopping there and sightseeing. It's very beautiful town. Weird that it takes only 10 min.max to get from Europe to Asia (over the river). Oh, and by the way our group got into the media also there.. (not doing anything bad:D)So, the next stop was Prague, where we had to stay for 18 hours. We got together with Maike's friend who showed the town and gave us a place to sleep. And then.. Riga.. and then.. Tartu.
...I tried to write it shortly.. I left out so many things, but i hope I gave you some idea what I lived through. :)
Thursday, 24 September 2009
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"You give and take away. Blessed be Your Name!"
Thursday, 17 September 2009
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Season started..
School has begun. SO much to do in so few time. I won't give your overview of my school stuff(yet), but believe me when I say that if I manage to do everything that I have to, then I have conquered myself. Well, still... it's my last semester in Viljandi... Still can't believe - four years have passed by so quickly.
News: I work now in two different schools with three different groups.One is still in Viljandi and now I also work in Tartu Art Gymnasium as a drama teacher for kids from1st to 3rd grade and with youth in middle school there. So far I like it =0)
Also I' m planning to go to Turkey really soon: next month. I already bought the plane tickets. I'm going to one of those trainings again like I went to Poland at the beginning of this year. This time it's bigger and it's in Mersin. I can't wait to get there :) To see some faces whom i haven't seen for a while..
But now I really have to pull myself together and start doing my schoolwork!
Tuesday, 01 September 2009
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The Start Of Something New..
I have keeping my Estonian "diary" (blog) for a while now and i quess that's the reason I haven't updated here lately much...
I haven't told you about my last camp which was at the end of August in Kloogaranna.. It was swimming camp. Yes, I was in a swimming camp:) And survived that, although I don't like swimming and beach life at all. The best part is that I was a counselor there:) I and Triin, who is almost the same age as I, watched over kids and put together the whole camp schedule. It was fun! I learned much about myself... and others, actually... There's a big chance that I will do that there next year again. Well, manager asked me about that.. so, we'll see.
Today is the traditional day here in Estonia where lot of young students go to school for the very first day. They will have opening ceremony where they will get their first A-b-c book. Also they will give flowers to their very first teacher...
And this is not first school day only for first graders: new school year started in university also. True, we don't give flowers or get some new books, but we still will have a start of something new...
My classes start tomorrow - "Theater-today and yesterday". I thought that I won't have very busy schedule this semester. I was wrong. We'll see how I manage to get all my plans to come true. But I really feel that I need this "The start of something new..." soon!
I wounder, what it should/could be?
Monday, 10 August 2009
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Lonely Wolf?
I have counted myself as a lonely wolf for a long time. I like to be alone. Really. I know, lot of you count me as a people person. But I love to be alone a lot! But sometimes I'm still sad because of this. But then He sends someone beside me, sometimes just for a second, to let me know that I'm not alone. Today, when I was walking and my mind was wondering on blue road, I got a rose from Him. It seemed to me that the person, who gave me that rose actually didn't understand what he was doing. But I got the message from Him: I can't never be a lonely wolf, because He is always with me. Keeping away from a blue road...
He's taking care of me:) Yesterday He gave me a long distance call from a good friend and chance to see Jaime and Geoff and to get hugs from them. Today a rose and nice talk with Brandi. Tomorrow...




