Mr Weeble has done it again

Remember those random videos about badgers, snakes and owls? Well, I found a video... and I would call this the king of randomness. Enjoy!

Little note to those who are interested!

This is Estonian movie about school bullying, very realistic, though quite depressing, masterpiece. Made by Ilmar Raag and 12 young amateur actors in 12 days! I don't think the trailer tells so much about it, but it has English subs :)

Good light in the end of the tunnel...

...which probably means the pile of things I've finally understood. Ain't that great?

It's been such a loooong time since the last time I wrote here. At some point I just couldn't find any time or energy to write, but now as the summer is about to be over, I felt like letting you know I'm still alive :)
I guess it has been the best summer in my life, I met so many great people, I made a tour around Estonia in 2 weeks with some awesome musicians and I also noticed how much better person I am after not seeing my family for some time. We get along so well now!

Now I decided to work on my "music carrier" more and the final solution is: competition in Latvia with 3 rounds! It means A LOT of work, but I want to do it. I can use many old pieces, but I also have to learn some new ones - for example, one modern Latvian piece with part for improvisation. I think that's the most horrible thing about it.

Anyway, I guess I'll write again soon!
Bye!

Xi'an, part 1

Since the short trip to Xi'an included so much, I'm going to have this thing in two parts. The day before we left we visited Finnish embassy and one other company. Then we ate in McDonald's (seriously, only a complete moron would think that when I've gone to China and been there for 3 days, I'm tired of Chinese food and want something I usually eat. A) I don't usually eat any junk food and B) why would I even go to China if I don't want to eat real Chinese food? Really, we had some morons in our group: adults.)
Well, anyway, I didn't complain about McDonald's and besides it was quite of adventure, as it soon turned up: one of our group members managed to throw his passport and visa into the rubbish bin of McDonald's. He didn't notice it until we got into the next stop, the Art Zone 798.
I loved the art zone so much! It's an old gun factory area which still looks pretty poor, but nowdays there are tiny shops selling handcrafts and young artists are creating different forms of art! I bought some playing cards, two notebooks with adorable pictures and cute Chinese stuffed pig for my little cousin :)
Then we went to eat in a real Chinese restaurant (thank god!) and this time we even got to taste the famous Beijing Roast Duck! Oh my &/%%#¢‰, it was so good! No wonder it's so famous...
Now we headed to the train station, and we were supposed to spend the whole night in there! I'll continue in the next posting...

Chinaland, part 3

Now, I'll continue with my experiences in China. In spotlight there is day number 3:
This day was spent in our friedship school in Beijing. I was super excited about going to school that would be really different from ours. Local students go to school for 7.30am, so I had to wake up at 6am. It wasn't even as hard as I expected it to be because it was sunny all the time and I felt I was full of energy.
At first our group (that I saw first time ever since we arrived to Beijing) met in a conference room and we got candies, drinks, fruits, strawberries etc. as we waited for our teachers to come. We had a short meeting there and after that we saw their weekly flag-raising ceremony and welcome ceremony, which was something I never had seen before; 2000 students standing in perfect lines. It was impressing. We went to see the english lessons in the school. Actually, I was quite surprised how similar they were to ours, although, I think the subjects were little different.
After 2 classes, we had a lunch break (it's about 2 hours in that school, wow! :D). Instead of spending the time to eating, we went to the school yard. Not so long after that, local student gathered around us and asked our emails, names and all kind of other questions. I was so surprised, because that's not something you would see in Finnish schools when you come to visit them. Everyone was asking us to be their friends!
The rest of the day we just spent the day at school until we went home. My host family and I went to shop to get me snacks for the next day's sight seeing and trainride to the city of Xi'an. (It's far enough to spend the whole night in train, but that's another story!) ;)
Pictures: Flag-raising and welcoming ceremony, classes and my new friends <3

Chinaland, part 2

My second day in Beijing was great, like all of them, to be honest. It was Sunday, so we had whole day to do the sightseeing. We visited Beijing zoo, which was so big that it took the whole first part of the day. Really, Finnish zoo is nothing compared to it. I saw so many animals I've never seen before, and the absolute highlight was the giant panda. There was 4 of them, one adult of the zoo, one baby panda of zoo, one olympic house panda and one asian games panda. I like the baby panda and the olympic one, which was eating bamboo very eagerly :) It was so cute! In evening, we went to a very fine restaurant and ate there super delicious Chinese food. I think everyone at the table was having fun watching me tasting all kind of new things :D I had fun, too.

Back from China xoxo

I know, there has been too long gap again between my writings, but I hope you'd forgive me. Now I really do have something to write about as I just returned to this depressing, closed and poor town from huge, brilliant, awesome and ... the best place I've ever been, China! I'm 100% sure that I've lived there in my former life because I've never felt so familiar and cosy ever before.
Since I got to experience so many things during these 10 days, I'll write always about one day/posting.

Day 1:
We left Finland on Friday afternoon at 6pm, and the flight took about 8 hours and 20 minutes. It's +5 h in China, so the flight was like short night, which I spent by watching movies since I just couldn't sleep on the plane. It was very bad "decicion", as I soon found out, because doing the sightseeing is not so fun when you're in half-coma due to lack of sleep. We arrived to China at 7am where we met the teachers of the friendship school. We went to the school and met our host families (and I must say that my family was the kindest ever!). During the same day we visited the Summer Palace, which was huge and really beautiful place to see. Only bad thing was that I was so tired in the end of the tour that I couldn't really see anything before my eyes and when we got into the car, I noticed that I couldn't stay up any longer. So the rest of the day was spent by taking nap and eating supper, which was Chinese, of course, and also very delicious. That was my first day in China in a nutshell ;)