4th day in Estonia, Tartu

Greetings!

Hope you're all well! And yes me and Nika made it to the 4th day of 21 days(if we're not mistaken).

This morning, on a Monday, 31. 10. 2016 we woke up to snow! How exciting (at least) for me since my favourite seasons are autumn and winter. And it's really interesting how Estonia (so far) is one of the few countries that have accurate wether predictions- when it said it is going to rain it did and for today, we saw snow on our Weather app but we weren't too sure if it will be accurate or not, and afterall we woke up and saw snow in our big window! 

Today was the first official day of our practice at the Tartu art school. Our first lesson was at 9am and was in an art studio-class room where the teacher Marina Aleksejeva helped us prepare for the project; she gave us some paper and paint brushes. She was really nice and explained to us what to do.
We had to paint a live model! It was the first time for me and Nika to experience something like this, it was such a fun, interesting and difficult experience! The model was just sitting still in front of us and we had to paint him, just like the rest of the class. It wasn't too difficult for us, but we know, we didn't do the best job, but we tried and it didn't turn out too bad either- even the teacher said it was OK and gave us some advice and tips for next time.

The front of the school with snow!

When the live model painting class was over, we had a lunch break, and our friend Zoe came to see us and explain some things. She told us that in the teachers lounge there is a small cabinet with laptops students can borrow if they have a free hour in school and/or have some work to do. All you have to do is sign your name on the paper in the cabinet and the time you took the computer, use it for a certain amout of time (as long as you need it, but you cannot take it out of the school), and when you finish your work you put it back, sign the hour you're returning it at and give your signature. We both think that thta's a really good idea! And because we had some free time we took a computer and watched some youtube videos while waiting for our next class to start.

We even got a free cocoa because a man was fixing the machine and he gave us one for free! :)

Next and final class for the day was plastic molding class. We waited in front of the classroom that was written on the program we recievede but there was no teacher in the room so we asked Ave to help us and found our teacher and right class.

The class was plastic molding and the teacher was really nice and really explained well what we needed to do! Our assigment for this class was to draw out ideas/designs for a human good deed award- some organization in Estonia is giving our prizes for people who do good deed's and they've been taking ideas and making the awards after sketches. He told us that it has to be around 30cm tall, 3D, 'attractive' from all sides, not to heavy and that it has to have a plate for a name on it(he explained and told us more but these were the main things). He then told us that if a student's sketch/idea is good enought they go ahead and make it from clay(it might be some other material, if so I appologize). So with all that we started drawing out our ideas, and the teacher was really helpfull and tried to help us evolve our ideas. So that was great! When the class was over, he even gave us 'homework' to think off 10 sketches for 2 cathegories for awards till next monday- we will keep you updated on how that goes!

When that was over we went home and enjoyed a nice evening.

This pictture is awful, but hey, snow!

Thank you for taking your time too read this and see what we've been up to. The pictures today are not too great,and that is because we weren't sure if they would be okay with us taking pictures, but we promise/hope better pictures are coming your way tomorrow!

See you,

Anastasija&Nika