It's hard to believe that it's been a month already. We have done and seen a lot, but we were convinced when we got here that five weeks would be a long time. Enough time to do everything we wanted. Too much time even.
Now that we're facing our departure, I feel a kind of pain in the fact that we're leaving. I've made new friends, picked up a bit of the Estonian culture and language, and started to feel at home a bit here. I almost feel a bit of the same sentiment I felt when leaving Ohio. Leaving comfortable surroundings and people for a place unfamiliar filed with unfamiliar faces.
I know I'll enjoy Taiwan too, and in a few weeks I'll be ready to call it home, but I will never forget the places I've been and most importantly the people I've met along the way. The Meisters, the Peikels, and all of their friends and relatives have been nothing but kind to us, and have extended us their homes and hospitality in a way that made us feel welcome and at home.
Even though I may be almost done living in Estonia, I'm surely not done thinking or reflecting on it. I plan to keep updating this blog periodically with musings and photos, and will eventually add all of my photos to my Picasa albums. I'll keep in touch with Mary and Jane, and hopefully will get back to visit again sometime in the future.
In the meantime, if I don't get the chance to update this for the next several days, feel free to email me and make any requests on things you wish I'd posted and didn't.
I was going to post about my visit to the KUMU, but the pictures tell more than my words could. I've uploaded them to an album here:
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| Tallinn: KUMU museum |
Be sure to look at the captions to tell you what you're looking at. Also, don't forget that clicking the pictures makes them bigger.
Until next time, ciao.
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