When I was asked by Uudo
to take care of a group of American students coming to Pärnu for this Festival,
I decline coz I already planned to do some activities with two groups of pupils
learning French. With those two classes, I just played « Drawing is
winning ». I show them cards with words or expressions on it they had to
draw. Of course they couldn’t speak or use any letter on the chalk board. It was
really fun with the second group since they were really looking for the clock
(each person had one minute to draw and make his/her team mates guess), they
were really into the game. The team made only of boys were a bit disappointed
not to win, especially since they lost to a group of girls !
So when I had to go back
home I decided to go the gelato shop who happened to be open for the first time
just that day. So I decided to go there and check out the new flavour they had.
I couldn’t resist the Belgian Chocolate, Kiwi and Vanilia flavour. It was awsome to eat
it. When I had to leave, I met some of the students who were chaperonned by
Katerina in the end. They were really friendly. So we decided to go meet again
after their performance of the night somewhere to grab a drink or two or three
or…… We ended up on one of the playground on the beach. We basically talked
until 3 or 4 am, when the sun was coming up.
The next morning they had
to be on the beach to take some group pictures before their performance on
Ruutli square. Let say some needed more time to freshen up before taking the
pic. ;-) At some point I had to leave them for lunch and after eating just
before going back home, I stumble upon a small group of them. They were looking
for the donuts place famous in Pärnu. So I took them there. They couldn’t get
away from the counter and kept on ordering again. Of course, they had to share
the information to the rest of the group. After their performance in a Tori
Church, a few kms away from Pärnu, some of them came to the little bar where we
were enjoying our evening. To get some music, some people decided to put on the
tv to watch the eurovision song contest. Those American students who came were
surprised some of our group were so much into this show !!
(sorry can't post the vids directly for now)
The next morning, they had
their final perfomance at the City Hall with a group from Finland. They managed
to get their hands on some estonian choir music while in Tallinn, song they
practice while on the bus to Pärnu or to the diffrence places they performed.
It was very nice of them to do it even they were not obliged. It was a great
gift to the Estonian people who great them. They made another surprise. While
they were in Tori Church, they decided with that fininsh group to do a song in common
(video above). Their last performance of Sholosa (video below) was just before
the reward ceremony where they finished first place !! congrats to them, they
deserved it.
(sorry can't post the vids directly for now)
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