Meeting in Estonia

We arrived to Talin on Sunday

October the 17th

We were welcomed by Rita and Nik.It was a nice

Welcome thank to both.As Rita had to wait for  the  arrivals of our other Project members

Nik picked up us to our hotel, hotel Sheneli which was close to the city center by the train station and near to is the old Town.

18,oct Monday

The next day after the arrival of the other teams we met our hosts Rita and Nik.

They took us to the old town.There we were divided to two groups.While the first group did a bike tour(Mustafa and Nurtaç were on this group) we the others prefered to stay with Nik and enjoyed the taste of Estonian cuisine.Then, we come together again and continue to walk through the old Town and visited some shops and museums.

We visited the museum of occupation which was rather interesting.

At 18:00 we continued to Tapa, Host students were waiting for us for meeting their guests.

We said goodbye to our students and went to Onnella.

19 October Tuesday

 Students joined their hosts in class for 3 class periods

We the teachers arrived to school at 9:00.We were welcomed so nice that I felt like a victorious champion. At 9:30 we had our first meeting.We watched the logos which were prepared by each of the participant countries.They were all well prepared,We voted for the

best one,And the one which we prepared was choosen to be used as the Project logo.

Then we went to the school’s assembly hall.

A perfect programme was prepared by our hosts.

There was music,folk dances,songs  which were all concerning Estonian life, we made our 5 minutes long presentations,But I must confess that mine was 11 minutes.Thanks to their kindness and tolerance.

We went for lunch.After lunch we went to the municipality and there we met the mayor.He gave us informative knowledge about Tapa and its environment.

20 Oct. Wednesday

The bus filled up by students come and picked us from Onella,we visited a Manor.

House in lehtse.This place was transformed into a primary school about a century and a half ago.

We visited one more Manor House which has been renovated keeping the environment in mind.There small children gave us some cards.On my card it was written,

Drink milk and stay healthy.Afterthan we went to Tammsare open air museum we shared ideas about environmental construction and architecture.

We visited the Museum of A.H Tamsaare,

We saw the storehouse which was built by Peter Hansen,We learnt why the storehouse was built above the ground,the cellar,the threshing barn,The dwelling house

We were surrounded by forests,

After this tiring day went back to Onnella.

21 October Thursday

We were picked again from Onnella house.We put on things according to our hosts warnings today.Because we were told to bring layored clothing,waterproof shoes as we were told,The bus brought us to a point where we would start walking for about 4 kilometers.We went through a forest and we had a very long walk.It was unforgetanable.We enjoyed the beauty of the nature.At the end of this long walk we went into a forest museum,Here we were shown

around.

We were divided into teams and each team sought information by following the routes on their cards.We learnt about the forest and its life through those informative  competition,and then we had enough time for getting prepared for the diner we would have at Tapa Gumnassium,There we had diner and our certificates were presented.

            

At the end of the dinner the students were invited to a schools party,We enjoyed the Estonian hospitality with our hosts,We left Tapa Gumnassium and went to Onnella house for our last night.The next day all the groups were going to leave at the same time.

We packed our luggages  and went to sleep.

22 0ctober Friday

We got up early,went downstairs to have breakfast.After breakfast at 8:00 The service bus arrived to take us to the railway station.

It was a cold morning.We arriwed at the station and meet our students.The host students and the teachers were all there.They had come to say Goodbye,It was an emotionaj moment for all of us.The train left Tapa station,We were going to Talin.We said Goodbye to each other and wished to come together in our next meeting…

Written by Bedrettin ŞAHİN


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