On 11th September I, 5 Hungarians and 2 Canadians did a trip to the
highest point in the Baltic countries aka Suur Munamägi. And yes, it
means Big Egg Hill. The trip started as 6 AM and ended 8 PM. We first
travelled to Võru and took there a minibus to Haanja. There we walked to
the root of Munamägi and decided (because of my suggestion..) to climb
"the extreme trail" to on top of the hill. The sightseeing tower wasn’t
really that special, but the trip itself was.
From Suur Munamägi we did this little walking trip to Haanja’s local
tourist place where there actually was someone’s 50th birthday :D Well,
we politely asked if we could go and see the lake and sauna that were
there. I also found many dead shrews there which made me sad. Oh, and
frogs. But those were alive!
When we travelled back to Võru, everyone was tired but we also wanted to
see the sights in Võru. Our first stop was Saint Catherine’s church and
a memorian statue for those who died when the boat Estonia sank. After
this we stole some apples from one’s house yard (well, the branches were
hanging over the streets so you just had to reach a bit and there it
was! And since the apples weren’t in the backyard, it was anyone’s
property :D Sori poliisit!) Then, the beach. Ah, it was BEAUTIFUL! I
just wanted to sit there and look at it, take some pictures, walk along
the shore and in the water.
I was at peace. It’s a feeling that I haven’t felt for a long time. I
wanted to stay there. Just look at the calming lake, breathe and think.
But I didn’t. I went to paddle in the water and the other Canadian,
Kalle, joined me. We had fun there, just the two of us. He even walked
to this almost sunk dock where I took pretty pictures of him ^__^ (And
yes, he is THAT nice :DDD) After this the Hungarian girls wanted to go
to this famous bridge (I can’t remember its name…) but the problem was
that the pavement (shortest way to there) was flooding since it was nex
to the lake. Well, since I like water and I don’t mind the little
coldness, I decided to paddle there. Kalle then joined me, although he
first walked there with his shoes on, but after we found a sunk boat, he
took his shoes off and we played a bit with the boat :D But we couldn’t
save it ;__; Anyways, we were paddling on this flooding pavement, the
water deepest to my ankles. The funny thing was, there were lot of
Estonian men there fishing at this little, VERY little pond (vähä nii ku
ankkalampi.. Siis TOOOOSI pieni!) Kalle and I were the first "team" to
arrive so we watched the swimming swans and little fishes (those were
pretty: when they turned to their side, the silver could be seen
clearly.
れはきれいでした… Then the rest of our group arrived, but they missed the
swans (nii lähel, et oisit pystyny silittämään niitä. Tosin en ois
uskaltanu, tiiä vaik ois päälle hyökänny.. :D)
After all, the trip was awesome! I got to know these guys better and
made new friends which is always nice! So I’m looking forward to another
trip (wether it’s Sea Battle or a train trip to Estonian countryside, I
don’t care.)
The next thing is International Food Fest. We and my new mate Katri made
Finnish traditional spread, munavoi :D But we didn’t have Karelian
pies, only rye bread but that is a Finn thing also! We also had Fazer
chocolate, Dominos and salmiakki. People really loved munavoi, I even
promised for few Germans to do it for them if they want to. And one
Philippine guy fell in love with salmiakki.. That was weird.. But the
time after the fest, ah! We were sitting on our 4th floor’s corridor.
One boy had a guitar and he played popular song for us to sing along.
There was beer, good company and good music. It felt surreal, still
nice. The sucky thing was, the land lady came and said if we don’t go to
our rooms she will call the security and we have to pay a fee. Since I
didn’t want to do this, I went to my apartment, took a shower (I reeked
heavily like smokes since I went with Katri to the smoking area. But I
didn’t smoke, I could never do that.) and went to sleep.
But really, these past two weeks have been amazing! And I really enjoy
the time when the Canadians are around since Kalle has the same kind of
personality as I do and Aleks (Kalle’s brother, actually :D) has the
same music taste as I do, and I think we also like the same kind of
movies too.. Yeah, I’m being stupid again! But at least I can always
hope. And dream. That’s nice.
Ok, enough bullshit and grammar & spelling mistakes (and the
japanese hiraganas and kanjis! But as you know, like I care!) :DD It has
been SO long since I have written anything in English (well, I haven’t
used this conditional form very much so I suck at it right now!) But
you’ll hear from me,
-Yamato
Yamato no tomodachi 