First impressions

So here I am in my new hometown, going on day three. It's a bit like a collission between Finland, germany and Russia here. Something from each culture.
The houses here are real diffrent from each other. There are these nice and fancy newbuilt ones and old ones, looking like they survived World War II or something like that. But I think that people are more into renovating the inside of their houses/apartments, then the outside. And as Mom pointed out, the old wall-materials they have used building the original walls are probably steadier and weatherproof than the new ones.

That gets me to my own studentdorm. They somehow figured out to put me on the same floor as the ERASMUS-students, which means a lot of partying and noise in the evening/night. Lets look how my first night here will go. I hate it there, and it's not just sharing a 16m2 room with another girl, but it's dirty and small. And former exchange students have just left a lot of garbage there, so it really is awful. But in about one hour I will meet a lady who is coordinating apartments for rent on the private market, and we will together look at an object near my own faculty, which is a bit outside the centre of town. Hopefully it's nice and I can move in there in a couple of days. It's a 30m2 apartment with all necessary furniture etc. and the rent is quite okay too. Lets keep our fingers crossed.

I will need to get a bike too, people are walkers to the core here, and maybe that explains why everyone is so SKINNY. Because they are, and they're tall too and all girls/women are walking in high-heels, don't know how they manage to do that, since the distance to town can be a couple of kilometers. So maybe I shouldn't buy a bike, just start walking everywhere, then the extra-kilos will fall off me ;)

Tomorrow is the first day "of school" and I hope things will look a bit brighter after that. Getting to know some people and so on... seeing my goal again and that will motivate me in staying and also enjoying my stay here.

Stuff here is cheaper than in Finland, at least most of the time. In a country where 2liters of Coca Cola cost about 1€ maybe is my cup of cake?! But some people literally do stink, and today I might have found out why: Shampoo costs about 3€ and if you're short on money... you can imagine the rest.

Yesterday Mom and I walked around for about 2 hours to find the Tartu branch, without any success. Mom got frustrated for the first time while being here (we arrived Saturday afternoon). I was just happy and enjoying the city (for the first time during my stay).

So that will be all for this time, have to go and meet that lady showing me the apartment soon!