Sunday, January 31, 2010

Champ :D

Uhh, cold cathed me. Probably yesterday in Outdoor. My nose is red and throat so-so. Hopefully this big load of "tea with honey" and whole onion will fix me soon.
But this didn't stop me to win the pool tournament and get the title "the best player in school." :D I don't take it very seriously though. Games weren't so hard and I had some luck. And in my opinion the best players even wasn't competing. It seems to me that this time we have some very good players and the whole group's skill level seems to be higher.
Has been a fun but a long night so time for some rest. :)

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Can it it be any better?

Busy days! Haven't had time to blog until now. Let's write down a glimpse of last days actions.
Well, regular lessons started. Thursdays will be a pretty hard days from now on if I can lay down judgement based on the this one. PowerSport > Mind & Body > Outdoor. The first PowerSport was indoor football, but somehow it was extremly demanding. I haven't been so exhausted for a long time. Beside being hard, our 3 member team got beaten 2 times from 3, once from team with 2 girls. :D I actually hurt my leg a bit with one bad hit on the ball but it got well quickly.
Mind & Body is basicly training program to test how long your body and mind will keep on going in intense work.

First Outdoors contained a introduction part like what we are going to do, what are everyone's experience and expectation etc. We also got to be first hours in outdoor doing teambuildings activities. Eg building up a trust - as a row we had to follow the first one to somewhere (on the icy road) being blindfolded and climbing up from hill using rope, still blind. We also made the stage jump, which is falling from height while others catch. I may as well name some other team games we played - minefield, saving barrel, spiderweb, crossing imaginable river with A-walk technique, measuring river's speed, making big enough fire to burn through a rope, boiling water, some puzzles etc.
We've been also busy organizing the first big party and then partying. :)

Overall feeling is great! The atmosphere is very enjoyable. I feel like there is a little fire in me. I feel happy, lucky, full of energy. My dear friends in Estonia may get upset now but truth is it's very hard to feel like that in Estonia. Back there the fun moments are brief and limited with boudaries. Here I feel I'm a different guy - if I have any positive features then those are multiple times stronger and I have always excitment in me. I feel alive and I live. It's so good to be here. :)

For the final note - I chanced the name of the blog. It started as our Xdream team blog but advanced and degressed soon. It became egotisticaly more about me and less about Arxxx and Oss. They had no time to join in to my adventures although were always asked. So, the blog "3 brave freinds" is now instead"Isamareeturi memuaarid". The new name was suggested by my 2 best friends in Estonia.

That's it for now. I'll go to play some tournaments now and if I'm not too tired for todays walks in town I may watch a movie what I borrowed from town's library. Be good! :)

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Gender battle!

I had no time to post a blog yesterday so few words about that. Well, some rules and duties got presented, and we had a little longer singing session. But the most fun part were teambuilding games in gym. Games like Puppies vs bulldogs, cats vs mice round game, birth of the bear, "take someone and bring to chosen place whatever what", virus and hospital etc. Fun, fun, fun!
Activity group was greated. In some reason I'm the only foreigner who joined. I can't remeber exactly but I think it was so also last time.

Today we had a tense "Gender Battle". Boys vs girls competed in 4 categories. Those were opera, art, cakehouse and rap. And boys won closely! It's quite amazing as I was told that boys haven't won before. Last year we lost for girls too. Anyway, the winning-loosing thing isn't so important. The main thing is that as last time, the whole thing was fun. Preparation process a bit, but the final presentations were fan-tas-tic! So much fun and surprises what people can make with short time and good teamwork.
The great mood was soon cooled down as we had to go a little walk. It was about 5km and took over half an hour I can imagine, but as it was raining, a bit cold and wind and in some places slippery (typical Estonian weather, i would say), it wasn't so enjoyable for everyone.

What else? Few random facts maybe - there are 16 foreigner. I still don't know how many there are us in total. And the Amsterdam trip should take place in April. Ok, till next time. :)

Monday, January 25, 2010

Second day in paradise

Hello! Nothing extreme to report. And the adventure, a small town-introduction tour, wasn't so groundbreaking.
Today we chose our subjects. My main subjects are again Outdoor adventure and Sports. Plus there are many minor subjects (yeah, mostly sporty). We had some more teambuilding activities-games in gym and other hall, little art workshop "design-your-door" and... well, just another fun day. Still in "learning names and getting new friends" process.
Take care!

Back in paradise

I'm back! Back in home! In Denmark! It feels fantastic!

The bad side is that today was winter Xdream and I wasn't there as I had to come here...
First of all - I've been very lazy considering the blog and I'm sorry about it. Of course I can't remember my latest doings so well anymore but I guess my most "extreme" actions in Estonia, in those few weeks I were there, were sleding in my way and sauna. Sleding in my way means that once in the country side my dad drove with tractor and I hold on in back of it with my hands and sleded in at least 50 cm deep snow. Without sled. Hundreds of meters. It was great and snowy fun.

Sauna is worth mentioning as it contained jumping to snow. We did it in New years eve and in next weeks also. The most interesting jumps were when outside had -22C. Coming from +90C sauna means that the difference between temperatures in mere seconds were over 110C degrees. At least I'm impressed. Those were great jumps - I hadn't had opportunity to jump in snow for years.

Also I had some very nice social meetings/evening with my dear Estonian friends but nothing extreme. We visited icy Valaste waterfall in one night but it would have too dangerous too try anything there.

So many things were left out from blog since my last Denmark stay. Eg very muddy but fantastic bike trip in hilly forrest, my first time on skates on ice (I didn't fell and I was getting better fast - at the end I was a bit better than some who were on ice 3rd time. skating is certainly a thing I want to try more), some trips, one to old castle, nice workout on spinner, some swimmingpool, sauna and gymnastic actions, musical therapy etc. Damn, why was I so lazy/busy to write those down...

It was hard to leave from all those nice and talented people. It were the best time in life. But now I'm back and I hope that this stay would be even better. :)

Today has been interesting day. Hour long drive with car to airport started from place with temp -26C. After a little drive the car termometer showed -32C. Cool, very cool, in the word's first sense. Two sleepy plane flights went well, as well two train trips. In the last train I met a girl from my old course. It was so nice to see her. :)

After a walk in Denmark's "summer" (there is only few minus degrees and few cm deep snow), first thing I saw when close to school were old classmates! I actually don't know why they were here but it was nice to see and talk to them.

After hugging and sending them away it started to emerge how many of my old classmates are back - beside me 7 Danes! Nice! I also have met a lot of new guys but as the group is considerably bigger in this time it's gonna take a while to remember everyone's names. We had the first icebreaking activities too - introductions and games in gym.

Ok, I may have forgot something now but I feel I should go to rest now. Let's keep fingers crossed and hope I will write more from now on. :)