Alarm rings at seven o’clock. Even though I have got used to it, for me it’s still (and maybe will always be?) hard to leave warm, cosy bed every morning. After basic morning routines I put my sneakers on and get outside: it’s time for morning running!
In Finland I am studying musical theatre and here I am focusing more on theatre and that makes the biggest difference in my studies if I compare them. My studies here in Estonia consist of different types of practical theatre lectures, such as body awareness, stage movement, acting, singing… And I also study Estonian language, which is quite useful here. At first it definitely wasn’t the easiest way to study, (to be the only one in a group of seventeen people who is not speaking Estonian and lectures are held mostly in that language) but definitely the best way to learn a language! The similarity between Finnish and Estonian language has of course helped me a lot also.
Viljandi, where I live, is adorable, peaceful, little town in easter Estonia. Everything is so near that you can mostly walk everywhere and even me who I am always biking from place to another have survived easily here without a bike. Here you do not have big shopping centers or vivid nightlife – but what you have is that so called ”Viljandi-vibe” which I love. Cosy cafeterias, nature everywhere – parks and forest in the centre, empty streets in the night, same dog walker passing by every morning… and many kind of cultural events which are keeping this town alive. I can say I haven’t been drinking this much green tea, seeing this much concerts or walking so many lazy walks in a parks just for fun – for a very long time.
Sure I have been exploring other Estonian also – but there is so much still to see! I have visited in Tartu and Tallinn several times and to those two months I still have left my plan is to include at least trip to Riga and some places in Estonia as well.
Christmas market at Tallinn Town Hall Square
Here the weather is quite the same than in Finland. They sell Fazerin sininen and rye bread in the stores. We have many similar words, same kind of ways to behave. I love the architecture that they have still so many old buildings left and cobbled streets.. But for me culture and behaving seems to be quite similar anyway. But here I live in student dormitory which is not usual in Finland – and this has been maybe the longest time in my life when I haven’t been in sauna. (Well, if I really would like to I could find it here somewhere as well.) As they say – everything has it’s time and place. And for now, this is definitely the right one.
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