So much to do, so little time to do it....

I've thought of blogging for almost two weeks now. I think every day that I should do it, but "just do it" doesn't work that easily.
Well, anyway, it's gonna be a long post now.

Some weeks ago there was the folklore festival where I volunteered. I was at the information centre of the folk. Our group was really cool and our boss, who was only a year older than me ran around in the folk area and did everything. So we called him running-Janno. But it was cool. I listened to a lot of Estonian folk music as the stage was right in front of me and saw also foreing groups. I really liked Turkish group because the guys from this group warned me from horny Turkish guys. Haha. Then some people came to ask from us whether we are also selling underpants with folk logo on it. Yikes. I saw a two-necked guitar with 24 strings on it. Sander Szavo who owned it, improvised his performance a lot and talked about the guitar. I was truly amazed by it. As it was very hot during the whole festival, we cooled ourselves down in the fountain that was next to our tent.

After the folk ended (which was pity, I would have wanted it to last longer) I went to Maarja village the next day. I found out there that the summer camp that was supposed to be held in my home was cancelled because of the horrible heat. So we made a new timetable where we put all kinds of activities- hiking in the forest, orienteering with radio stations, swimming, ride with the local boat Lonni, water war and of course a visit to Rõuge. I also had my birthday during the village camp. It was really cool- at twelwe at night we were in the sauna with some people and they wished me a happy birthday very early. Then I was woken up by Reeda and Lauris early in the morning. During the breakfast the whole village sang happy birthday to me, I had a cake for dinner and the village gave me also a cake for dinner with candles on it. Later at night we had a co-inhabitants party at the boat bridge and almost everybody came. I got a scarf as a present from volunteers and a lot of candies and wine and a bracelet and a fridgemagnet from Austria. I really liked that day.

I had a party with my relatives also on the end of that week. It was funny. My relatives and family acts really funny when they are drunk.... Hmm. I'm not going to talk about myself...

But anyway... Now I'm again in the village. Working. I helped to make sour cucumbers and made juice for the first time. And it's berry time! So it means a lot of work during the night because right now you can't do anything during the day. It's too damn hot. And it will continue to be this way. Oh la la.

I've also decided that I will do my EVS next year and will hope to start it next August or the ending of July. I already sent some applications to some organizations. Let's see how it goes. I will send some more applications when I have time. So I have to hold my thumbs right now. I have to see if some organizations will reply. Now it's almost all about waiting.....

Sorry, I didn't make this post a very long one. I'm just not used to being in the computer much and it's hot and everything... So if you wanna know more about my life, then I still have a cellphone... :)

Hugs!

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Some quotes and that's it for now

Dreaming is not stupidity, stupidity is not to dream. - 10 July

Follow your happiness! - 14th July

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Oh, just give me enough will to do something....

Exactly like the heading says. I have had free days this week and I haven't been lazier. Although there is so much to do still...
So. On Sunday I went to Põltsamaa, for Kaie's birthday. It was a great chillout time there and I got to see my friends. Gosh, I had missed them. I had also missed Tartu, where I stayed on Saturday night. I put up posters with Kerttu, Kirke and Karl in Tartu and sent some posters with Karl to Paide, too. Yeah, I'm promoting the boat race. It's already tomorrow.
But back to the topic. On Monday we came to Tartu to have a session ending party. It was good and funny and we had so much fun. On Tuesday I came to Võru to visit Maris. Her belly looks already so big. And cute. Well, there's only two weeks left, too. I hope the baby will be born on my birthday. That'd be so lovely.
On Wednesday I had folk festival meeting and boat race meeting and I also started organizing the village camp. I've played a guitar a lot and just rested a lot. And now i should figure out what to do during the Maarja küla camp and should put things together, but I'm way too lazy....
Tomorrow will be the boat race so I will be busy the whole day. On Sunday we'll go hiking and will have sauna in the evening with friends at my place and then on Monday or Tuesday I will probably go to Tartu to get myself new glasses for my birthday. And then after that will be the folklore festival and the village camp and a lot of work.

I took my strenght together and watched yesterday evening a movie that had been in my computer for ages. It's name is "The diving bell and the butterfly" (in French "Le Scaphandre et le Papillon"). It's about a guy, who has a massive stroke and after a three-weeks come wakes up with a locked in sydrome. His right eye will be sewed together because there is some kind of problem with it and so he can communicate with the world only through his left eye. The only way to communicate is by blinking. He and his physiotherapist figure out a way to communicate and the guy wants to write a book. Only with eyeblinking. The movie is based on the book written by the main character and is a true story. It's a really interesting movie to watch- the beginning is made through the view of the stroke-guy (through his eyes) and there are no exaggerations either. At least it seems to me so. I am planning to read the book as soon as I will have time (yeah, this will be in the far future then, probably) but anyway I recommend the book and the movie to all the people. It's a thought-provoking movie and gives a really good description of the syndrome and the feelings and thoughts of the people who suffer from it.

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If you want something, then the whole Universe will help you secretly in making your wishes come true. -26th June

Start from the necessary things, continue with possible things and you'll notice suddenly that you're doing stuff that are impossible to do... - 30th June

Happiness is the beginning of the summer morning. -July

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A psychologist....

1. A psychologist never argues or fights!We just do participant or non-participant observation...
2. A psychologist is never wrong, the problem is that you´re watching the whole thing from another point of view!
3. For a psychologist, there is no such thing like ugly people, just people with the visual area quite or little damaged, because we are all beautiful! (Yes, everybody...this is positive psichology).
4. No matter how many alcool a psychologist has drunk, he is always sober. They just adapt to the sudden modifications of the social context (and the modification of the vision). So, he can always explain the bio-psico-physiological factors that are occuring in your body as well!Isn´t that great???We are life long teachers...
5. Because of Pavlov, we can teach things to your dog/cat and develop a trully and rich relation based on scientific knowledge
6. Be careful about how you seat, how you touch your hair, why do you wet your lips, the way you stare, the way you smile, the way you dispose your feet and how you cross your legs, whom your body is in front , all that can be signals you are sending. And for you disgrace, we know what that means. Truly, psychologists already rule the world
7. Psychologists are legends, the others are just statistics.
8. You can always talk about sex with us, we are used to it.

These statements are taken from Facebook club "Reasons to date a psychologist"

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Quotation time!

As you have probably noticed, my horrible internet connection at work doesn't allow me sometimes even to look at my mailbox, and in no way I can post something here. So. A few quotes' days have passed. Here they are:
Losing means learning, not giving up. -19th of June
Everythind changes but nothing disappears - 20-21st of June
Find some time every day to reach yourself. - Today

My Midsummer's Eve won't me anything remarkable. I'll stay at home for a little while and then will go to work in the evening. There will be some kind of campfire in the village, so I'm hoping to be there at that time....

I have only three days left to work this month and then I'll be free until the village camp. Or well, not completely free- there will be some birthdays and I'll go to Tartu and Põltsamaa and there will be Rõuge Boat Race and Waterparty to organize with the youth club and there will be Võru Folk Festival, too. Although I have no information about what I'm gonna do there. The meetings have taken place in such bad times- I've been to work or away somewhere....

Oh, and it's raining on my free days. Wondreful. I will stay white as a swan this summer.

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I'm ill. Again.

I have extremely sore throat and am on drugs. Got antibiotics today.

But now...
After being home for some hours I went to Võru, where I was supposed to have my folkore festival meeting. Imagine my anger, when I found out that it was cancelled and placed on the 18th of June. We didn't receive any letter with a notice and I think it's unnormal. I mean, I took a free day from work to go to the meeting and then got to stay at home for so little time. I was also supposed to go to work in the evening after the meeting but i didn't want to go there too early. So I just had to stay in Võru and hang around. Well, at least I found a birthday and graduation present for my sister.
Then, on Saturday, there was a really busy day in the village. We had some memorial park opening and a cleaning day and had to make a cake and I had to perform with Heikki on guitar two songs.
It went well, but I was really tired by the evening. Sunday was a more relaxing day as there were so few inhabitants in the house. I just had to cook and look after them. Not a problem.
On Monday there was some kind of training about communiating with the inhabitants' parents. It took most of the day. In the evening there was a football match between the village and Erastvere in Kanepi. We lost it. But whatever, our goalkeeper was from their side. And they cheated. And, deep in our hearts, we still won. :)
Oh, I've been watching football from TV also. I am changing. Kerttu, be happy :)

Some quotes also: (although I have missed the exact date for them, as usually)
It's not easy to find happiness inside of yourself and it is not possible to find it from somewhere else. - 10th June
Whenever you will fall, always take something with you when you get up. - 15th June

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Not much but still something...

Been working for three days now. That's why I haven't posted anything. I had already forgotten about my quotes that I was supposed to post here, but I'll try to do it tomorrow. Right now I'm gonna write a bit about my work.

Well, there hasn't happened anything remarkably interesting. Been doing my usual stuff in the village. Well, I had a little time to play guitar. Played it with Judith1 in front of the Eesti maja and it was such a great chillout time. I have this kind of weird feeling when I'm in a group of people who are chilling around somewhere and doing something cool and cultural: e.g. when I was in France then we were having a free night to do whatever we wanted and ended up next to the water mirror near the river in a group where some guy played some Beatles' songs and we drank beer and just sat there and it was just cool. It's some kind of special feeling. And I felt like this when me and Judith were playing guitar and sitting outside. Awesome.

Then, I went to Jõrumine (some kind of singing lesson in the village) and played guitar together with Heikki (he's leading the lesson) and it was also really cool, although for some songs I only knew some chords, not all. But I'll try to learn some new chords. I should.
Then, I started reading "A curious incident of the dog in the night". It's about an Aspergious teenage boy who starts to investigate a murder of one dog. The writing style of the book is something completely different- very detailed, e.g. "he wore socks which had a tiny whole above the ankle and....". I hope you understand. So I recommend this book.

Then, today was Czech disco in Erastvere and I put together a group of people from the village who wanted to go. There were so many people coming so I had to go to Erastvere and come back, too. I didn't plan it in my first intentions. The disco was awesome. Lenka and Jiri and their friends from Czech Republic did some karaoke and danced around and it was really cool. Then there were some games and dances. It was a really cool evening. I love my job more and more every day.

Some of the inhabitants are hugging me every day and giving me kisses and it's so cool. It has never been this way before. I think I should stay volunteering in one house when the summer's over. Only sometimes be in some other house.

Right now I'm at home. For less than 24hrs. But it's still something. I will have folk festival meeting tomorrow and then will go back to the village for a week.

But right now I'm gonna finish. It's getting late.

Hugs!

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Johnny Marr

I was downloading some new music today and wanted to get myself an artist named Johnny Marr. When I searched for it, I got a surprising response- John Frusciante "The Empyrean". I found out that Johnny Marr had done a guest appearance in John's album.
Kerttu, did you know that?

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Think that life begins with every sunrise.

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