Over 2 months has passed since I last wrote here... although I've wanted to do it so many times, I just couldn't. It didn't feel right. My experience about Italy in Estonia.. Nonono!
But believe it or not, step by step I got use to my old life at home. I was still needed for my friends, and I needed them, especially after skype'ing with Padova or Bilbao or Kuopio .. I was needed at work, at the uni.. and I really had a wonderful time here.. Still have. BUT..
To live again my impossible dream, that AWESOME and that COOL...
If
I could put into words how much I love these people. Mi manchi!
This weeks have been rough. One story is about Val di Fiemme,
the other one about my last days in Padova. And then Estonia.. .. Uff..
VAL DI FIEMME
So how was it? My first big competition abroad. Well, IT WAS SO AWESOME! As I've actually never seen any skiing competition with my own representation, then at first this made my impression. How close they are. How normal it is. And ski jumping. Uuuuh!!! Just perfect. As in Estonia the national TV and radio are together, it's also pretty normal when sometimes I have to do interviews to the TV. So on thursday morning I went to Predazzo to make interviews of nordic combined ski jumping part for the TV, then I went to Lago di Tesero to interview women 4x5 relay (Marit Björgen FTW) and after that nordic combined skiing part. All the transportation was made by police cars. Of course. It's Italy, could you predict anything else? No :D
Petter Northug (NOR) after giving interview
Policia...
But of course I wanted to
come back to Padova on thursday. So I had to take the bus to Ora and
from there train to Verona and then finally to Padova. It took pretty
much time, around 4 hours but it felt so good when in the train
station Madis, Thorina and Asia were waiting for me. :))
PADOVA-
MARCH!!!
Friday (1st of march) morning. I wake up
and I .. cannot see! It was a shock! But then I realized that of
course my immune system is so damaged that I'm just so open to every
kind of infections. I had imflammation of the eye!!! Farmacia and
medicine it is.
As I didn't have the apartment since 25th, I was living with Asia next to the train station. But now Asia had to move as well, so we packed all day long and thanks to Madis somehow went all with our luggage to Moritz. Of course we went by taxi but I think that we had more than 10 bags so it was pretty funny. I think we had the marsrute Asia-Madis-train station at least 3 times. Because of course we had to get some things to his place, then we needed to collect some stuff etc.. As Enric had birthday on Sunday, he celebrated this on Friday but as my eye was still pretty unshaped, I decided to go home.
Saturday (2nd of March) promised Mattia to give us one boat trip and I have to agree, it was AMAZING! Although our trip was mostly drinking beer and screaming (okay, I was screaming because it was so cool!), the weather was perfect and I really felt again that I don't want to leave.. We visited 2 islands, I called them goat island and rabbit island. Actually we visited the ruins of one fortress (and we saw 2 dead goats and lots of alive goats running around), it reminded actually a little bit of Pakri because it was pretty wild.. And on the rabbit island.. Well, there were just a lot of rabbits and of course I was like a child in the candystore.. :)
(But as long as Madis hasn't given me the pictures, you have to get along with these: )
As I wanted to go
so badly somewhere else than Padova, on Sunday Amaia agreed to come
with me to Bassano del Grappa, in the end we were me, Thorina, Amaia,
Moritz, Belen and Maria. And I have to say it was the best decision
to be made! It's a small city 70 km north of Padova, near Vicenza but
it's so beautiful...Again the weather was awesome so we just took
time for ourselves.. :)
From Sunday evening we were living at
Moritz place and as I had promised, I made pancakes on Monday
morning. (Belen wanted to say to you that I CAN REALLY MAKE
PANCAKES!) Of course we went to Prato della Valle to take some sun
and study, and we bought the strawberries for 2€ for a kilo!!!
Njomnjomnjom <3 Everything was just so perfect and I knew that
this wonderful experience is going to end up with a huge mess. Mess
in my heart and in my head..
Wednesday
Padova was crying because of my leaving. I could understand that. And
me and Asia were crying as well all the time.. When we went to mensa,
went for the last coffee, last, last, last.. AND then I had to pack.
I decided that I should buy one extra luggage so in the end I could
give away 20+15 kg of luggage + 10kg of handluggage. But as I
realised that I don't have any normal bag to fit in my handluggage, I
dived into the rain and went to Chinese shop. But it was good- I got
bag for 12€ and Oppa Gangnam Style t-shirt for 10€,
hehehehehe... But the most! GOODBYE PARTY!!
The event of MAMMA E BAMBINKA:
I
don't remember much. Indeed. At some point we had to leave for
Fishmarket but Asia lost the key of the bikechain so we couldn't
unlock the bikes and we went to Pbar (shots for 1€) by somebody's
car and after that to Fishmarket.. And then I arrived home by my own
bike at 4 o'clock but where did I get my own bike, I don't remember
xD
But the morning was even more awful. I couldn't even go to the
taxi without throwing up so for the last time me and Amaia rode the
bikes.. And actually I didn't realise this importance of the moment
so much until I was finally in the train.. and it started moving.
I've been unhappy for a couple of times but this time I really felt
that I'm going to leave my family behind and maybe i'm never ever
going to see them again.. Although I hope that. A lot. I love them.
I just loved when Magnus (still drunk) showed up.. I think that nobody was clearly sober 11am in the morning in Padova train station
The last moment..
Marsrute Padova-Milano Centrale-Orio al Serio aeroporto was exhausting but I managed it. Of course I had to repack one of my suitcases in the airport but come on, I'm awesome! Ryanair was full of estonian children, drunk british bachelors and people who tried to stand them. When we landed (wow, even 15 minutes before the right time), they were singing “Estonia!” with the melody of Italian anthem.. Couldn't felt more home, heheh.
But what has happened so far? ESTONIA Is cold and still a bit weird. Is icy.
I love it but I love Padova more. I miss my small Padova. And it keeps haunting me.
On my first schoolday, I saw on my faculty building 2 flags- estonian and.. ITALIAN. Later on, my professor explained me that we had the embassador visiting..
Then, in RSR-Circle of International relations-we had a lecturer from Italy. From northern Italy. From... dümdümdüm.. PadovapaPadovapaPadovaPAUURAAA!!! And of course we talked about the elections..
And wednesday.. Habemus papam! It's wonderful that I found TV online stream and now I can always watch italian TV! :) Mi piace.
But I just cannot get over my people who are 2000 km away.. and I miss them so much :*
Küüslauguleivad, kilu tomatis munaga, kartulisalat, kissell, kaeraküpsised. Viru õlu. Viin.
People from Germany, Poland, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Catalonia, Hungary... :*
25th of February. Goodbye.
My Kinga dear...
26th of February. Val di Fiemme.
After Therese's win. I've never seen so many norwegians.. Magnus would love it here.
Where I met German journalist who bought me glühwein and told that I'm cute when I speak german.
I have alter-ego. Kristina Šmigun..
Stay tuned:
27. veebruar
meeste 15 km (v) 14.00-15.30 ETV (14.05-15.35 Vikerraadios)
28. veebruar
kahevõistlus, suusahüpped suur mägi 10.50-12.00 ETV naiste teatesõit 4x5 km 13.35-15.10 ETV kahevõistlus, 10 km 16.20-17.10 ETV (16.30-17.00 Vikerraadios) suusahüpped, suur mägi 17.50-18.30 ETV,18.30-19.45 ETV2
Esimest korda viibin sellel päeval välismaal. Natuke imelik on. Sest mulle meeldib vaadata paraadi ning õhtul ka pingviine (ehk siis pidulikku vastuvõttu), süüa normaalset toitu, mis ei koosne ainult süsivesikutest, ning võtta ka kõrvale vahel väike pits viina (ihhii). Mis on eestlasele nii tavaline. Aga siin juhtun ma tihtipeale sattuma olukorda, kus keegi ei tea, mis või kes on Eesti.
Näide 1. Kuskil kuu aega tagasi läksin postkontorisse marke ostma. Kogu järgnev vestlus käis itaalia keeles. "Tere, palun 3 marki Eestisse." - "Kuhu?" "Eestisse, Euroopasse"- "Eesti ei ole Euroopas!" "On küll, ma olen eestlane." - "Ei ole, Eesti on kolmanda tsooni riik, mark on 2,50", näitab mulle siis mingit tsoonide nimistut, kolmas tsoon on Aafrika. "Ee.." võtsin välja oma ID-kaardi, näitasin, et olen isegi Euroopa liidus ja tahan oma 0,85 senti maksvaid marke saada. Onu andis tusatsedes margid, pomisedes: "Ega siis mina ei pea kaarti teadma."
Jah, aga miks mina tean. Ühel päeval selgitas mulle mu tandemipartner Mattia, et itaallased ei tee vahet Euroopa Liidul ja Euroopal. Näiteks küsis temagi mult, kas Eesti, Soome ja Rootsi on Euroopas. Mina seevastu, et geograafiliselt on kõik kuni Uurali mäeni Euroopa. Päriselt!? Jah, aga Euroopa Liidus on jällegi 28 riiki ning jah, need on Euroopa riigid, aga neil on omad tingimused, teadsin mina rääkida. Sellevastu kostis Mattia, et itaallastele ükstapuha, nemad olid liidu alguse juures ning pole ju sellel kõigel vahet. Ma ei viitsinud temaga vaidlema hakata, lihtsalt ütlesin kurjalt, et Eesti on mõlemas ja mind solvab kui ta seda ei tea.
Jah, kes me siis oleme? Mida me siit tahame?
Näide 2.
Üsna alguses kui ma Ceccarellissse kolisin, juhtusin kokku ühe üpris toreda itaalia-saksa segaverd poisiga.
Siis läks jutt aga minu päritolu arvamise peale. Esimene pakkumine-inglane. Teine- ameeriklane. Rohkem riike poiss pakkuda ei suutnud, sest mu aktsent polnud euroopalik. Ütlesin siis talle, et Eestist... Mind jõllitati suurte silmadega ning küsiti: "Aga Estonia on ju mingi Ameerika osariik?" Wow. Päris äge. Tekitame uue osariigi! Loomulikult pole mul midagi selle vastu, et mu inglise keele aktsent pole nagu purueestlase moodi, aga siiski.. o.O
Positiivsema poole pealt ka. Taaskord oli meil üks ühine õhtusöök, kuhu Thorina võttis kaasa ühe uue saksa kuti. Lasime tal siis arvata, et mis riigist keegi on. Kõik teised arvas ära, mind pakkus aga Ameerikasse. Thorina palus siis mul oma keeles rääkida, poiss taipas ära, et äkki olen soomlane. Vähemalt seegi :)
Nemad on kergelt öeldes Eestist vaimustuses :)
Loomulikult on ka inimesi, kes on Eestis käinud või kellel on Eestiga seoses mõni hea kogemus (tuttav, sõber või lausa elukaaslane) Kõige ägedam lugu puudutas aga üht itaalia kutti, keda ma kohtasin lumeräätsa-peol. Tema olla mõni aasta tagasi Narva (!) hääletanud, samamoodi ka Haapsalus ja Viljandis pöidlaküüdiga käinud. Isegi mõni eestlane, sealhulgas mina, pole nii teinud.. Respekt!
Näide 3. Rääkisin mõni päev tagasi Kingale (jah, kell oli tegelikult vist mingi 2 öösel), et 24.veebruaril on meie iseseisvuspäev ja Eesti Vabariik saab 95-aastaseks. "Päriselt? Nii vähe? Mis te enne seda tegite siis?" Ainus vastus:
Loomulikult meeldib minu siinsetele nunnudele (eriti Moritzile ja Patrickule) minu või minu päritolu üle nalja visata. Mõned killud:
*Miks Eestis mehed ja naised ei abiellu? Sest nad ei ela talve üle. *Eestis on jääkarud ja nendega saab kooli ratsutada *Merili näeb oma köögiaknast Venemaad. Ükskõik, kas ta on Tartus või Tallinnas. (ja teisigi nalju, kui lähedal Eesti ikkagi Venemaale on) * (Rääkisin loo, kuidas mul oli väikesena kaks kujuteldavat sõpra ja ma ei käinud lasteaias) Nii tore, et sa siis lõpuks Itaalias Madisega tuttavaks said, nüüd sa ei pea enam sõpru juurde mõtlema! (Järgnes pikk arutelu, kuidas mina olin üksinda põhjas ja Madis üksinda lõunas) *Kõiki töid Eestis teeb Madis; ta on president, rongijuht, taksojuht, õpetaja. Merili lihtsalt põgenes sooja kohta ja on mittekeegi
*(Arutasime Mendelejevi tabelit ja keemiliste elementide suurust) Eesti on nii väike, et ta ei mahu isegi Mendelejevi tabelisse ära.
Samas oldi kord ka minu poolt. Amaia on nimelt bask ning talle pandi eriti tugevalt ära. "Merilil on vähemalt oma riik, sul ei ole sedagi."
Väike meenutus eelmisest aastast..
Jah. Mul on oma riik. Ja ma olen nii paganama uhke selle väikese riigi üle, mis tähistab täna 1 294 236 inimesega oma riigi 95. sünnipäeva. 2 eestlast näitavad täna kartulisalati, kilude, küüslauguleibade, Viru õlle ja viinaga poolakale, ungarlasele, rumeenlasel, itaallastele, sakslastele ja hispaanlastele, milline üks õige Eesti pidu välja näeb. :)
Exactly 2 weeks and I'm going home. And as you know me and my personality.. It's so hard to leave. Even though I've been homesick sometimes, I'm now getting to the point when I realise that maybe my future it's not at home, it's here... But as I cannot change anything now, I just have to wait for the summer.. and just enjoy my time here, as I could.
The climate changes in Italy as my mood. On Monday we had nearly 13 degrees and sunshine, today it was snowing.. And can you imagine that I was wearing a dress and sandals on Monday.. Yes, indeed I did. And had wonderful icecream at Prato della Valle. Our dinner tradition continued when Magnus made some shells and as we were so up to partying, we went again to karaoke bar. Enric and Patrick rocked the world..
Our dinner... mmmm
Welcome to the jungle!!!!
And also, me and Teresa were wonderful with Felicita... :)
Tuesday was the last day of Teresa's and we wanted to throw her to the fountain but she was so clever enough that she "slept it through" First time during our stay here we had dinner at mensa (and we could have taken as much beer as we wanted!!!) and had Spritz in Zanellato bar. With ESN card it costs only 1,80€ and you can take it with melon Aperol or normal Aperol. Njomm..
on Wednesday I realised that nothing is eternal. I went to the station 3 times to say goodbye- first time to Moritz, Amaia and Belen who went to Lecce (I couldn't join them because of Val di Fiemme), second time when Teresa left to München.. and third time, Marek left team Estonia :( :( But I was good and managed to hold back my tears. Wippii!!
Evening got interesting again because Enric invited us to see AC Milan-Barcelona football match with paella and risotto.. and as the match ended with Barcelona's 0-2 lost, Enric's emotions got more and more... serious.. which of course led us to Tequila bottle and to a party at Amsterdam Cafe, held by Spanish people.
After 0-1
After 0-2
At the party
Today was snowing (!) but me and Kinga managed to go to Segreteria Studenti to hand in our Libretto (Transcript of Records). Although we've been living here for 4 months, we got lost!!! But at least we now know how to ask the road so we got them handed and now we have to go on Monday morning to Centro Linguistico to get our Language course certificate (Fingers crossed!!) and Palazzo Bo to end my Erasmus. Non mi piace.
Who are you? Pick one and stand in line.. We were lucky, we had to wait only 20 min..
If at some point I may not write here anymore, then I'm busy with packing, moving and making Estonian dinner on Estonian Independence day. It's not easy to pack again your whole life into 2 suitcases, especially when I have to move at first to Asia's, then go to Val di Fiemme for 5 days and then after 2nd March for some days to Moritz.. But what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. :)
