HEY DID YOU KNOW I WAS IN ESTONIA?!?!!

Seriously, I should just stop doing titles, but then what will twitter say?

Okay. So there are photos. That’s a good thing.

Today is Wednesday, at it’s 2:00, which means I’ve had three full days of classes. Like I said earlier, I’d been put in the Lower Intermediate class or something, which is scary because I’m always the dumbest, slowest guy in the class (though my pronunciation ain’t the worst!). It’s actually kinda fun- I mean, being the slow kid. When I have to pick a case for something, and I just can’t get it right (Like saying Tallinnas instead of Tallinast), it totally reminds me of Spanish II in high school.  The only problem was, back then I was the one kinda sorting speaking Spanish and rolling my eyes when someone replaced a le with a la.  Idiots.  Point being, it’s finally irrefutable proof that the apex of my life was somewhere around 11th grade.

Despite being a dummy, I’m really enjoying the class.  My biggest problem is really just vocabulary- the structures are so far almost sorta understandable.  The case system is complex, which was expected and might even get its own post later.  I’ve been working my flashcards pretty hard, and I even knew a word that the seemingly near-fluent Russian girl didn’t know.  (Ettekandja is ‘waitress’, kelner is ‘waiter’.  There, now you know too!)

There’s still a fair amount of awesome that comes with adults struggling to tell time, or stuttering through Must kohv, suhkrita, or talking about how they’re going to watch their clothes.  It’s fun.  Anyhow, I don’t want to give the impression that everyone is as dumb as I am, but learning language as an adult is hard, and we’re all proving that.  Just a little bit harder for me.

Final note: being a vegetarian in Estonia has finally been an advantage, or if not an advantage, something that my peers appreciate rather than are annoyed by.  We played this game in class where everyone had an index card with two statements on it, and you had to find someone who agreed to the statements.  The statements included Ma olen taimetoitlane, ‘I am a vegetarian’, Ma ei söö kala ‘I don’t eat fish’, Mulle ei meildi kana “I don’t like chicken,” and several other similar ones  When word got out that I was, in fact, taimetoitlane, I became the star of the class.  Maybe just got one goofy little practice session, but I take whatever victories I can get.