Interview with Heleri 1. Have you met somebody from our project after it ended? Yes! During this summer, in June, me and one of my best friends decided to award ourselves after graduation with a trip to Rome, Italy. There I met Quirino and stayed with him for a while. I believe he showed me different, non-touristy, side of Rome and I had the chance to taste homemade wine 😀 Plus, I do want to mention you, Eleri, as well, because, in my point of view, we have had rather one unusual encounter. I mean, come on, ending up in the same project in Cyprus was significant and pure awesomeness. 2. What countries have you visited after the project? After the project, I guess, I unleashed my inner traveller. One month after my arrival to home I packed my bag and went to United Kingdom, for youth exchange. In November saw Stockholm again. In February I visited Milan, Italy, and like previously mentioned, I visited Italy once again in summer, but during this trip I also visited Germany for two days and ended up seeing Lithuania as well. I think this summer I didn’t even experience the shitty Estonian summer, because in July I went to another youth exchange in Spain. Right after that, thanks to my work, I had the chance to visit (Latvia, Lithuania), Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary, that even twice. And finally, I saw mysterious Cyprus. 3. Biggest thing that had happened in your life since end of our project? I’m not afraid to interact and communicate with people anymore. Before the project I was rather shy, conservative, and due to that I had missed lot of opportunities. I also changed my environment by sharing an apartment and surrounding myself with foreigners - mostly Erasmus people – and thanks to great support I finally graduated from university. All together, it has been eye-opening and emotional journey of self-discovery. 4. Describe your most memorable situation from our project. I am unable to pick one situation. I loved all deep conversations and contemplations with others; hitchhiking; learning the history; drinking Rakia; even working was okeish in some days. It was very different from my typical Estonian life. But, one of the most memoriable was definitely my first flying experience. I was little bit anxious, but Eleri helped me a lot 😀 5. What do you think about Bulgaria? When I think about Bulgaria now it just seems so far and it stirs up various emotions. I definitely dislike Bulgarian food, sorry. I love the nature, the mountains, it is just so rustic. Locals are very kind, even when they don’t speak English that much. Overall, it is not how I imagined – I thought It was more Soviet type of country (like my parents) before seeing it myself hahah. Still, it has a lot of developing to do – poverty is visible in all over the country. Except touristy places: e.g people who only go to Varna, they don’t see Bulgaria 😄 6. Write a little summary of our EVS project in your point of view. All the participants taught me something new, opened a path to different perspectives and I miss them. I had never ever experienced so much emotions in Estonia. I firmly believe I experienced all emotions there is to experience – from pure happiness to total sadness. Sometimes I wasn’t even capable of understanding what was going on. Perhaps I will never fully understand it, but every young person should crab this type of opportunity. It doesn’t even matter that we were tired all the time, had siestas, got bored, had some dramas and so on, because all the good things override negative ones. It’s worth it. 7. Feel free to share something else with other project members. I’m glad that I met the people I met and I wish you all the best 😀 Tartu diary Actually I have met Heleri twice since our project. First time we saw each other was in the winter, I don't even remember the month. I visited Ahhaa science centre where I had a meeting but after that I had a free time. Heleri picked me up with her cutie green car. We headed to her apartment, usually there were 3 persons more but all they were out of the town or in the hospital 😆 So, we had an empty flat. I brought a souvenir from Latvia, I guess it was a biggest mistake in my life. In the morning we both didn't want to hear about word "honey" anymore. I am really afraid of Heleri because everytime we drink together I'll be so drunk. She really influences me somehow. Because we only had one night and rough morning we didn't have a change to do something special during that time. And after that experience I hated Tartu even more! Cyprus diary It was pretty unexpected that we ended up in Cyprus together. I applied for a youth exchange in Cyprus and got approved. At some point there was one available place and I blandished Heleri to apply as well. Unfortunately she didn't get that place. But fate had other plans because one of the participant cancelled her participation and Heleri got a place. Life is wonderful if you can travel for free with your good friend. So, we met again in Tallinn coach station. We travelled together to Riga at first. I finally had an opportunity to hand over her youth pass. In the bus they offer free hot drinks. I was drinking my cocoa when suddenly bumpy road appeared and all the seat and my pants were all covered of it. Terrible, I feel so sorry about the bus company, I did my best to clean that mess there. In Riga we went for a small walk to the old town. Riga is a quite small city and similar to Tallinn so we didn't expect that we can get lost but we did. We were so certain that we made a small circle on the streets and we suppose to end up a place where we entered to the old town. But nope, actually we were pretty far away from the bus station. We used map and locals help to find our way back. Fortunately we made it to our Vilnius bus. It was deep night when we arrived and we weren't certain about using Taxify or not. But Heleri tried and luckily there was a car near to us. Driver was a local guy but still spoke English, so we had a small talk with him. Ride from bus station to airport was ridiculously cheap, only 2€ Airport was so empty that even security control didn't work. We waited a bit, then we passed the control and found a cosy sofa where to rest. We did our best to sleep but it was too cold and something disturbed us. In the plane we also tried to sleep. I am not sure when did I sleep but I felt that I have rested at least 3 hours. Out of plane we were pretty confused where to find a bus to the city centre. It was quite early in the morning an already super hot outside. Another confusing factor was the left-hand traffic, you have no clue which side you have to stand to get into the bus. Actually it wasn't difficult at all and now I know the airport pretty well. We did zig-zags in the city when we finally arrived to our destination point. We had a breakfast almost in the first place we saw. Costlone was full of cafes and bars. It reminded me Almeria a lot. I ordered a sandwich and ice cream. We thought that takes less time to prepare but hell no. It took quite a long time to make those two sandwiches. At least ice cream was really-really delicious. Then we went to the beach, we were rebel and didn't want to pay for a chair, so we just put all our things on the sand. Then Heleri noticed that she has lost her scarf. Really random but I also lost my scarf during the project. Larnaca's beach is literally amazing. Water was crystal clear and really warm. I felt like Aphrodite and understood how those myths came up. We did shifts to keep an eye of our bags. We had funny moment when we did a photoshoot inside a water, classic in our case. Coast guard members watched us and one of them passed by and commented something in Greek, it was so random but so funny. Because I saw how he scanned over Heleri's body. All day under the sun was harming for me. I was lazy enough to not put sunscreen on me and I saw results in the evening. My back and shoulders were totally burnt and ass as well, Bulgaria vol 2. We discovered city and Heleri bought a new scarf. Then we met with other Estonians, at least I wasn't only sunburn Estonian, Sten was my soulmate. Bus trip to Agros was the best opportunity to get to know other Estonians. We conquered back seats of the bus and started tindering. At some point situation went way too funny. Tiredness took over us and everyone tried to sleep a bit. Fortunately we shared a room with Estonian girls, so, me, Heleri and Laura were in the same room, Bulgaria vol 2.2. This time Heleri was more humane and during our conversation didn't leave me or didn't swich of the lights. Our room became a centre of Estonian community. Guys spent even way too much time in our room. Classic influence Heleri has to me got confirmed in the first evening. So much drinking, grazy dancing and it all ended in tears and with blanks in my head. I am kind of happy that Laura captured it all. It reminds me what happens if I drink too much. It was like the situation when I asked for Anna to capture my condition in Bucharest. Our village Agros concentrate to roses. We visited rose factory and it all reminded Bulgaria. This factory also makes rose candles, Sveshtari vol 2. We waited for the Bulgarian intercultural night a lot, rakia tastes still the same but nothing can beat homemade rakia, industrial one is not so valuable. During our projects we visited Pafos, Limassol and Nicosia. We even walked to Turkey, actually Northern Cyprus, which is occupied by Turks. And highlight of the trip was my birthday. I really felt love around me. It was a best birthday in my life and I definately enjoyed every moment of it, Heleri made it even more special. More about our youth exchange you can read under subject "Projects". After official project dates Heleri went with other Estonians to Ayia Napa. I heard rumors about wild life there but I wasn't there and comment it. Photos made by me, Heleri, Laura and Diana.
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