We met on friday in the morning and drove to Tallinn by bus. It's not so far from Riga, the travel took us something between 4 and 5 hours. Even the bus travel was already cool, because we had lot's of time to talk with the other exchange students, because some of them I don't meet so often, it was great to hear how they're doing.
When we reached Tallinn, we went to our student hostel (Jugendherberge), it was called ''Alur'', and it was quite okay (not bad, really). All girls (13) had one big room together, what was a little bit exhausting, but also great because so there were no ''who-shares-a-room-with-who''-problems, and we had a communtity room were the whole group could meet. Also, during the weekend I had so many great conversations with different people, so I really appreciate our room.
After putting our luggage on our beds (lucky me got one of the two ''normal'' beds, the rest were bunkbeds), we went to an american diner / pizzeria called ''Pizza Americana''. There I ate the best pizza in my whole exchange year, maybe even one of the best pizzas in my life. Unfortunately I didn't take a photo. But if you ever end up in Tallinn, go to ''Pizza Americana'' in the old-town, Müürivahe 2 (and take pizza number 34 or 37 I'm not sure which one I had, but it was with dried tomatos, mozzarella, olives and oregano and it was simply amazing).
Then we went back to the hostel, and had free time for the rest of the evening. I was a little bit tired because I was sick the days before the travel, so I just stayed in the hostel with some other exchange students, and we talked and listened tomusic and that evening was cool, because spending time with exchange students is awesome.
On the next day, we had breakfast (Nutella bread with banana), and later played a little game, where everyone gets a paper with the name of someone else and then buy a small present for this person, to give it to them later as a surprise. So in small groups, we went buying this presents. I had gotten the name of one guy, and found an awesome cup for him, on the cup is a photo of Putin riding an eagle, because in all baltic countries, people love making jokes about Putin. I'll add this photo to this post.
After finding presents, we went on a city tour, where a young woman showed us interesting places of Tallinn. I took lot's of photos, which you'll also find in the end of the post.
Tallinn is a very beautiful city. Especially the old-town, all houses are colorful, different colors everywhere, and interesting architecture.
After that tour we had lunch in the restaurant ''Vapiano'', which I can also highly recommend, I ate pasta con pomodoro (pasta with tomato sauce and mozzarella) and I loved it. The special thing about this restaurant is that you get your food yourself (no waitors), but it gets freshly prepared, you see this process, Also, it was really delicious.
When we all ate, we had a little free time to walk around in the shopping mall where Vapiano is located, and then went to a city rallye together with some of the estonian exchange students. It was cool to met them, they told some stuff about how their exchange years are going, and we did the tasks of the rallye (well, we did some of them).
Later, there was about on hours of free time with the estonian exchange students, which was great, because I already got friends with some of them. We went to a vegan restaurant, unfortunately the time was to short to eat something, so we drank a tea and talked.
If any estonian exchange students read this: you're awesome ♥
So, after that hours we already had to say goodbye to the estonians, and went back to our hostel, where we had dinner. Chinese food which the YFU volunteers picked up somewhere, I think the place was called ''Chopstix'', it also was very good, and so much that I ate only half of it and the other half late at night.
After dinner we got divided into smaller groups and talked about how the exchange had been until now. We talked about problems, and great moments, life in the hostfamilies, school and much more. That group also was great, thanks to the great volunteers (quote: ''never forget: you're all beautiful'').
The rest of the night we spend in our room talking, eating chinese and sleeping.
On the next morning, we packed our stuff together, had breakfast and went to the busstation to take our bus back home.
To conclude:
That was a great trip, I really enjoyed it. One week instead of one weekend would have been great, and more time together with the estonian exchange students. But still, I'm happy that I got the chance to see a part of Estonia. If you ever come to the baltics, go to Tallin, eat at ''Pizza Americana'' and ''Vapiano'', look around the old-town, drink tea, and have a great time.
have a nice day!
Annabella ♥
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