Tallinn Day
What is in somehow surprising about Estonia is that they seem to be really keen to social events and public celebrations!The Flag tradition for example: basically every building is equipped with the support for exposing the flag... I mean mainly the Estonian flag!
In order to avoid customization to the flag, the black, blue and white symbol of Estonia is blown by the wind only in special days. What is funny is that "special days" seems to have a pretty wide definition: you will see the Estonian flag also during the Mother day in May and the president birthday... or even for Baltic solidarity, like the Lithuanian and Latvian national celebration.
It may sounds a bit weird, but I actually learned to appreciate that: the flag shown out may underline the importance of certain days which tradition may be lost otherwise, and the solidarity with Baltic celebration tells a lot of the common history of the 3 Baltic countries!
The last public event I had the honour to take part in has been the Tallinn Day: a celebration created out of the blue, just to celebrate Tallinn. The nice old town has hosted several concert points and entertainment activities; the weather was great and loads of people were hanging around.
Folk music and a really cool Ukrainian band made people dance and even clap their hands!! Estonians are keener to dance than clap their hands!.. Not that easy to get applause over here (which is pretty frustrating for someone like me!)
The weekend has been signed also by movies: From Saturday till actually Wednesday I took advantage of the Spanish movies offered by the Spanish embassy in Estonia! We managed to see some nice movie.
Last but not least on Saturday night (yeap, I guess my next post should keep more into consideration the chronological principle!) I went to Scotland Yard: I was there with Viive, Rauno, Raffaella, Kaisa and Magda, (the last 2 being two polish girls trainees in Latvia who came to visit Tallinn)... It was Salsa night: oh, yeap? I'm definitely getting in to Salsa... I just got 3 lessons but I cannot complain about my dancing skills... and Salsa is definitely cool!!
Ookk! Probably I'll also need to work on the length of my posts!
Till the next,
Augusto
In order to avoid customization to the flag, the black, blue and white symbol of Estonia is blown by the wind only in special days. What is funny is that "special days" seems to have a pretty wide definition: you will see the Estonian flag also during the Mother day in May and the president birthday... or even for Baltic solidarity, like the Lithuanian and Latvian national celebration.
It may sounds a bit weird, but I actually learned to appreciate that: the flag shown out may underline the importance of certain days which tradition may be lost otherwise, and the solidarity with Baltic celebration tells a lot of the common history of the 3 Baltic countries!
The last public event I had the honour to take part in has been the Tallinn Day: a celebration created out of the blue, just to celebrate Tallinn. The nice old town has hosted several concert points and entertainment activities; the weather was great and loads of people were hanging around.
Folk music and a really cool Ukrainian band made people dance and even clap their hands!! Estonians are keener to dance than clap their hands!.. Not that easy to get applause over here (which is pretty frustrating for someone like me!)
The weekend has been signed also by movies: From Saturday till actually Wednesday I took advantage of the Spanish movies offered by the Spanish embassy in Estonia! We managed to see some nice movie.
Last but not least on Saturday night (yeap, I guess my next post should keep more into consideration the chronological principle!) I went to Scotland Yard: I was there with Viive, Rauno, Raffaella, Kaisa and Magda, (the last 2 being two polish girls trainees in Latvia who came to visit Tallinn)... It was Salsa night: oh, yeap? I'm definitely getting in to Salsa... I just got 3 lessons but I cannot complain about my dancing skills... and Salsa is definitely cool!!
Ookk! Probably I'll also need to work on the length of my posts!
Till the next,
Augusto
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