seven years

"Tunded olid talveunes seitse pikka aastat,

ei nad keerand kälge ega tõusnud üles maast nad.

Lumevaiba all nad seitse aastat magasid.

Saabus kevad, tunded tulid unest tagasi." (Merca raamatust nimega 'Mees')

Free translation:

"Feelings were in the wintersleep for seven long years,

no turning, no getting up.

Under snow cover they slept for seven years.

Spring arrived, the feelings came back from sleep." (Book called "Man" by Merca)

I went to Tallinn last Sunday and on my way back I read the book "Mees" in 2 hours. It was great. Soovitan (ainult et 245 krooni on tiba soolane hind).

This quote and I felt some attraction. In some way it quite literally describes my current situation. I have been away for almost seven years. And even though there is a true winter outside, the feelings have their spring.

But what am I supposed to do with them? The feelings, that is. It's funny how some things just stay as they are...

And now here I am: the head says one thing and the feelings follow their own idea.

:)

Hello, 2010

2009 was an immensly important year for me. Lots of big things. The biggest and sweetest are the three special letters, of course! I finally got to pick this sweet price I had to work my ass off for years.

I had this "idee fixe" - to take the 2009 together somehow. And here it is. My little pet project that needed to get done before I can continue with the rest of the ideas that I have. The quality is not the best here, as I had to make it a tiny file, but still:)

Now - onto new big things! A new decade is here to conquer!

howdy, new week?

Warm greetings to a new week. It is basically already the second week in October:)

wanna catch up?

When you send a text message to a guy saying: "Would you like to catch up tomorrow night?", you will most likely receive a message saying: "Your house or mine?"
Because for French guys: catch up = have sex.
So now you know :)

Hundionu Kullionul kylas aka weekend in Brussels

So the real inspiration for blowing the life bac into my blog comes from Brussels. From Kullionu, to be more exact. Because - the last weekend (Sept 11-12) was one of the best ones in 2009. Because I visited Brussels and Kullionu. Gotta love living in Europe for having these wonderful opportunitites to spend weekends in other countries.

My sole goal was to see Kullionu and Kullionu junior. Kullionu jr. is almost 2 and I have still not seen him. This is unletable. So off I went on Saturday morning at 6.30. 2 hours to Paris, 30 min to change stations and about 1 hour to Brussels.

There they were - all three of them! Sooooooo awesome!

We visited the bio market, which c

omes together not too often.

I was amazed to hear a random woman passing by speaking estonian. Such a homey feeling.

The afternoon started with Kullionu and I 'solving' a bottle of Vouvray wine between the two of us and catching up. Beautiful moments!

Then - Kullionu made moules (mussels). Apparently in Estonian dialect they are called 'mullid' that in english would equal to 'bubbles'. So for a while was wondering to myself what kind of lunch this will be - made of bubbles (and love and air???). The lunch was delicious! Supertasty!

Aitah Kullionu!

Around 5 we were heading

over to Ave's. She had organized an academic evening for academic crowd in Brussels and was expecting 32 people. We went to help out with the food preparations. And so the evening went. Quickly. It was VERY VERY great night. It was really good to see Ave and Mairis and Tobrekas again. And have some wine and talk with people who understand each other on the different (Estonian, academic) level. I also met Gert Antsu there. I have not seen him for 6 or more years... He is doing well and is an ambassador now.

Kullionu and I arrived back home around 2, where Rax had made a nice bed for me.

Sunday started unusually early (for me) - around 7.30 or 8, when Kullionu Jr. woke up. But it was a beautiful morning. Just to hang out.

The most beautiful moment was that Kullionu had made a little too muct porridge for Kullionu Jr., so I got the leftover. I have not had porridge for breakfast (or for any other meal) for ages. And this one was made by Kullionu! Honestly - life cannot get better than that!

We went back to the market around noon. This time it was the so-called regular market. I saw some tasty chickens and a huge cute dog. And other market things. We walked around the market and visited the Parliament and took the compulsory picture with the skinny girl holding the Euro sign. She did not introduce herself though... And I saw Kullionu's building and Kullionu Jr's kindergarden. It makes quite a difference in understanding peoples lives

, once you have seen some more important landmarks with your own eyes.

Afternoon got spent at Ave's with tea and leftovers and chatting with Ave, Mairis and Kullionu. It was indescribably amazing.

On our way home we stopped at The Cinquantenaire Park. So I could get a little bit of touristy stuff into my weekend too. They had some sort of electronic picnique going on and probably for an unrelated reason there were lots of fancy cars. We had a beer, a small photosession and a waffle, and then headed back home. September is not a summer anymore.

We had chicken and harigot vert for lunch/dinner and soon it was time to head to the trainstation.

It was an amazing weekend!

We will repeat it soon. Either in Brussels, Lux, Paris or London or some place elsewhere.

it's time

It has been a long summer. Fun summer. But it disappeared in a blink. As you can probably tell by the silence here. But now it's September, and I think it's time to get back to writing. What do you think, Kullionu? After April the September comes, right? :)

I did write a few things about the summer in France though. These memoires are here:

http://hundionu.wordpress.com/

And I still have an idea to talk about July and August as well. I even have the text ready. If I could just find a few minutes/hours to choose and edit some matching pictures. But soon, I hope.

So - welcome back :)

last week in Ottawa

The last week in Ottawa was super busy. I felt the wind was whistling in my ears. 

So on Saturday, may 23, I had a going away party called "Silken flag and silver sails ...golden boat went to the ocean". It was great. Lots of good people, laughter and alcohol:)

Silver sails are presented on the picture on the right:  

Sunday, I went to the woods with John. I was a little hang

over, but it was amazing. We went to the Gatineau park and did the Waterfalls trail. All uphill by the rock. Great work-out and amazing view from the Pontiac lookout. And later we went to see one waterfall that I forgot the name for. Amazing!

Sunday night had a dinner at my supervisors. Also amazing. 

Monday night I had a dinner with Fiona and Angela at the Murray street Kitchen - amazing place again. And great time!

Tuesday - my fish moved to a new home at Jenn's. I hope they are 

having a good time with their new cat+fish -buddies!

And I spent some quality time at Dorota's house. We made dinner and I baked the poppyseed c

oncoction. It was super nice evening. I stayed over too, as my place was feeling a little empty.  

Wednesday - we had a lab potluck, that was over the top as well. Lots of great food - burgers that Will had prepared just melted in my mouth. And we had beer:) And - they had a gift for me - an iPod! A yellow one. So super awesome! I was deepely touched. I am.was part of a great team! 

Thursday - still packing with Dorota's tremendeous help. Leslie prepared an amazing dinner at her house. It was great! And later we, L+V+E, went to the cafe Nostalgica, where I had my Mug of Knowledge. It's this ancient mug, that was foun

d during some diggings, and now every graduate student can have one free drink out of this mug after defending their degree. I was special and I had a little more than one:) It was awesome!!