1. day in Estonia, Tartu

 Hello to everyone that is readying this! We are Nika and Anastasija, two students from Srednja medijska in grafična šola in Ljubljana, in third year, 3.F to be exact.

While I'm writing this, it is the 2 day or 3 night in Estonia. We arrived a few days earlier because Nika won 3rd place in an internatonal photography competition, with the title Freedom and she came here to accept here price, along with our headmistress Ana Šterbenc, assistant principal Aleš Pešec and teacher Florjan Pezdevšek.

The flight was good, it took us a little longer than expected because the first time we took off, we had to fly back (while being about 30minutes into the flight from Ljubljana to Poland) because the plane had minor technical difficulties, but it was sorted our shortly and we were back on a new plane. When we arrived to Poland we had about 2 hours before our next plane for Estonia, so we got some lunch at the airport. We arrived at a late hour, grabbed our suitcased and to our luck got immidiately on the bus for Tartu, since we landed in Tallin. When we arrived at the first hotel we stayed at we immidiately went to bed since it was quite late.

Refreshing bewerages at the Warshaw airport.

The next day we visited the Art school where me and Nika will be spending the next 3 weeks at. After that we headed off to the newly opened museum Estonian national museum. We were all amazed by how big, beautiful and interesting was the building and the interior aswell. The museum opened on the 1st of October this year, they started building it in 2013, finished it on time and it cost them 75M eur. 

After the museum we got some lunch and at 4pm we headed off to a theather, where Nika and everybody else recieved their awards. There was also an exhibition with almost everyone's picture that made in into the 40(if I am not mistaken) choosen ones. As I said Nika won 3rd place and got a Sony digital camera, 2nd place went to a great Hungarian student Andras and first place to a lovely German girl Carolin. Congradulations again to everyone, the first three places were really outstanding! 

At the exhibition we also met Zoe and Ave, Zoe is a student at the art school here in Tartu and she wil help us get around, and Ave is the coordinator for international students. When the award ceremony was over Zoe took us to a kios where we bought a bus ticket for these 3 weeks here. We finished the night in a very lovely restaurant with the German and Hungarian teachers and the two winners, besides Nika of course and our Slovenian group. Everyone was great and we were all happy to meet them.

The winner

The next day, today, Friday (29. 10. 2016) was the day he had to say goodbye to our headmistress.assistant principal and teacher and say welcome and hello to 'freedom' and independence since in the morning the very nice coordinaor Ave came to pick us up and show us the student hotel/dorm rooms we will be staying at. The rooms are very nice and comfortable so we are very happy and thanfull for this oppurtunity, yet again! After unpacking we went to a grocery shopping, which was nearby fortunately. We bought all the necessary things and headed back, not to happy since rain followed us the whole day before and after the shopping trip. We also cooked our very first meal here today, and it was good. 

In the store we saw ice cream packed as a salami and we of course had to snap a picture. 

We start real work/learning on Monday, so we have 2 more days for rest and to get to know the city and the surrounding of our hotel. For tomorrow we made some plans with our friend Zoe and we will see how it goes, we just hope to have better weather or at least no rain!

See you tomorrow, 

Anastasija Spirovska and Nika Rijavec!

p.s.: We have some troubles with our cardreader so you will have to enjoy pictures taken with our phones, unfortnately! But we're fixing the problem. :)

written by: Anastasija Spirovska