Since Tallinn

First of all, Tallinn is an awesome city, the old town is beautiful! It was so much fun to spend time walking around a new city without worrying about having to be anywhere. The food at Olde Hansa was SO good, rabbit and bear and wild boar. I'm probably gonna be going back with one of the teachers, she didn't get to go the first time because her multi-entry visa wasn't done. Stupid Russian beaurocracy. I'll probably spend too much money again, but oh well.

Teaching is going well overall, my 5th year class is still fun and my third years are still a pain. They make me want to never teach again. One of the boys from Jenna's second year class, Sasha, got moved up to mine, so I have 7 now. He's a sweetie, and well-behaved, I think it's just frustrating for him to have to try to listen over all the noise the others boys make. I spent ten minutes at the beginning of class just trying to get them all to sit down! But we're almost halfway through this semester now.

This weekend Sarah's dad was here doing some research, we all got to meet him, which was fun. And a guy from ILP came to see how everything was running, how the students and teachers were doing. He also brought some news from the States, since none of us have been keeping up with it. I feel so bad for not doing so, but just getting online is an issue! Other than that life in St Pete has been pretty repetitive...Saturday a few of us went to the Peter Paul Fortress, which was interesting, had a good museum about the history of the city, and a great walk along the wall. There were also various cannons from over the years, it's tradition that a blank is shot every day at noon. We got to see one of the general conference sessions at the church, but there were sound issues, so we watched a DVD with a CD playing what they were saying, and somehow the CD was faster, so had to be paused after every talk. Don't know how that works out, but whatever. And now we have a special institute in English for the ILP group but by the time Jenna and I finish teaching and get to the church, it would be mostly over. I wish we taught in the morning with the other girls.

We're now planning for our week-long vacation, hoping to spend time in Sweden, Finland, and Latvia. Hope to post again before that though!