Hello, sheep islands!

I’m starting writing also in English, because I promised to do so. I hope. Until I get enough of writing twice on the same subject. Or three times, or four. Because I have a mother and a girlfriend with whom I share my experiences first anyway.

For Estonians: eriti uudishimulikud võivad lugeda nii eesti- kui inglisekeelseid sissekandeid, sest tõlkima ma ei kavatse hakata. Puhtalt sellepärast, et see on keerulisem ja tülikam. Nii et inglise keeles võib kirja saada asju, mida ma eesti keeles ei kirjuta. Alustades järgnevaga.

My flight went really smoothly, the landing was of course a bit windier than I had experienced before, but nothing that I didn’t expect. Some women were slightly screaming when wind wanted to blow away the aircraft and I had to catch the seat in front of me, but I believe it could have been worse. I have no reason for not trusting the pilots.

They even provided some food on the plane which was good, because I didn’t have much for breakfast and I had already forgotten it. It came just on time. And free juice and tea. It was nice.

After my arrival I couldn’t decide straight away what I should do and which way, so I sat in the small airport and wrote some e-mails and surfed the net for a few hours. Then I decided to try to get going by hitchhiking, which turned out to be really easy. I was a bit disorganized, so the non english speaking people took me to the capital Tórshavn, where I was for a half an hour, until I realized that the idea of pulling my 20 kg luggage along with me hasn’t got any better than in Copenhagen. I guess I don’t learn much from my mistakes. After that I hitched to Vestmanna, which again went very smoothly, I never had to wait more than five cars. I will definitely use this mean of getting ahead more.

People here are extremely friendly and helping and trusting. Yesterday we went to a festival in Klaksvik where there were big fishing ships standing in the port and you could explore them yourself, nobody restricted you to go to every room and deck, although people had their personal stuff there. I guess nobody steals here anything, because it would come out anyway with so few people. Everybody just knows everybody.

We also drove around a bit in the north and found some geocaches of which some were in Faroese “forests”, which are rather interesting places. They are planted, of course, and taken care of, but the flora under the trees are much richer so it almost looks like real. I will upload some pictures afterwards.

Next week I’m going to ask for a job in the fishing factory, it’s promising that I’d get it, because there were pupils working there during the summer, but now school time has started and they probably need some workers. Also I hope to get a room by asking people working there, because there are other foreigners who have gathered and renting something.

Overall I’m really satisfied here, I wouldn’t say it’s highly above my expectations, but I was expecting pretty much. From the very start I felt like at home here and it hasn’t changed. It might just be amongst the most right decisions I’ve made in my life. But I can’t really tell yet, since I have no work. I’m planning to take myself a week for hiking and then after that start working, but eventually everything depends on the weather here.

P. S. For non-estonian readers – whoever is reading it and interested, please comment, that way I’d know if I should keep this category up or not. Note that you will have to register yourself on the page to send public comments, though comments from anonymous writes should reach me as well. I think.

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