The Spring it´s exploding all it´s beautyness in all Estonia. For the first time since i´m here, the weather of Estonia and Spain have been quite similar, even sometimes warmer in Estonia! Some days it´s being able even to wear short clothes. But the reality came back at the end of the month bringing us cold and snow again. It melt just with the contact with the floor, but the thing is that it was falling snowflakes at the end of April. This is something i could expect from one of the Jupiter's moons, but not in Estonia. Suddenly, it feels like the days are very long (in hours of daylight). Also there´s a lot of birds i´ve never seen, and some others that i´ve seen before, but not as often as here, like the storks. It´s full of them on the fields, and sometimes on the sky. April has been full of things to do, maybe too many, because i´ve been in Ritsu and Tõrva only a few days, since i´d been working one week in Võru, another in Hargla, and some days i went to Norra (Norway) which was a country i fell in love with. But let´s start with the beginning of the month.
I have now been in Estonia for longer than I have known that I would be coming to Estonia. It has been something of an adjustment…
Moving from Finland to Estonia with two weeks to prepare turned out not to be that big of an issue, so I was already in good spirits about my sudden uprooting, but what I had not prepared myself for was how much the similarities between the two languages would serve to confuse me.
Parim viis üles ärkamiseks pole kindlasti sinu telefonis olev äratuskell, mis hakkab laulma kell seitse hommikul, kuid ärkamise teeb palju paremaks ja kergemaks: 1.) kõne sõbralt; 2.) väljas särab päikene; 3.) teadmine, et sind ootab ees põnev päev. Kõik need tingimused täitusid 6. aprillil, kui Lõuna-Eestis viibivad välisvabatahtlikud panid proovile enda orienteerumisoskused võistlusel “Väle Jänes”. Võistlusel tuli meil orienteeruda Hargla külas ja selle ümbruses, leida erinevaid kontrollpunkte kaardi abil ja teha erinevaid ülesandeid ja kõike seda võimalikult kiiresti, kuna me võistlesime koos teiste noortega üle Eesti esikoha peale.
31. mai kuni 2. juuni toimub Kaldavere turismitalus Valgamaa noorte looduskool. Osalema on oodatud 7-14aastased noored.
Looduskoolis pakutakse palju praktilist tegevust kogenud instruktorite juhendamisel, võimalust viibida vabas looduses, leida uusi sõpru, ööbida telkides ja õppida kasulikke teadmisi toimetulekuks metsas ning praktiseerida õpitut.
Looduskoolis toimub õppetöö gruppides ja vastavalt õppeteemadele. Tegevustena on plaanis orienteerumine, erinevad käsitöö õpitoad, rühmadevahelised võistlused ja isetegevuskavad, metsas toimetulek väheste vahenditega ja palju muud põnevat.
A couple of weeks ago i was going to buy food in one of the Torva supermarkets and i saw a toad on the street, between the few reminiscences of snow. I stared at him, while he stared at me and said «Don´t worry, the winter is over». He didn´t use words, but with his presence he was telling me that. «So i´ve survived to the winter, and i still conserve all my fingers!» I said to myself (Obviously not to the toad, because i don´t speak toadian). I have to say the winter wasn´t that bad as i read on the internet «The lack of sun will make you feel depressed» «It will be so cold that you´ll regret of your own existence» they said. The reality was much more liveable. But i have to say that i´m happy about the coming of the spring. Actually, even people looks more like humans now. During the winter they just put the auto mode to keep living, but now it´s like they have a soul again.