Stories of a German Exchange Student

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Lapland, Math Olympiad and FLL Finals

The week in Lapland was amazing not only because of the activities we did, but also because of the people we connected with. Besides local activities like snowshoeing, skiing, ice fishing or sledding, we also visited some really interesting places. Among them were a museum about the life of the […]

Begin of Lapland Trip

I spent the rest of the holidays either preparing for the FLL finals or doing maths. I also slept at Alide’s place one night during the holidays. The next school week was pretty normal, except for some dance practices with my class for the upcoming school internal dance competition. On […]

Estonian National Holiday

Estonian National Holiday

In the last few weeks I have been to a ball, attended a commercial production and taken part in a robotics competition. Last week I visited the Parliament and had a rehearsal with my choir. The holidays started this Monday with Estonia’s birthday.

Mid-Year Seminar

Mid-Year Seminar

Last weekend we had the mid-year seminar, which was held entirely in Estonian. Unfortunately, I got sick and stayed at home the following week with one exception: on Wednesday I went to Paide to take part in the Estonian Maths Olympiad. This weekend I had a rehearsal with one of […]

New Year

The rest of the time between Christmas and New Year was spent relaxing. On New Year’s Eve we went somewhere in the woods to make a bonfire and eat marshmallows. When we got back around 9 we had dinner and then played games. For the change of the years we […]

Christmas

Christmas

My holidays started with a robotics day, we met in the morning and programmed and built until the evening. The next day my eldest sister came back from Sweden and is now living at home again. While my parents picked her up from the airport in Tallinn, I visited a […]

WRO competition

Last weekend I went to Tartu to attend a locally organised competition on the WRO problems of the last season. It was about building a robot beforehand, but developing all the code there. In the competition I got the third place. On Sunday I met up with my supervisor in […]

Bratislava

On Thursday I went to Bratislava with two of my choirs to take part in an international festival and competition. On Friday we had a city tour and sang two really good concerts. Today was the competition. In the morning I sang with the boys’ choir “Kalev” and then with […]

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