Estonia

Upon arriving to Tallinn, which is Estonia's capital city, we were taken to a motel by a private taxi driver. The Motel was apparently run by Russians and was quite unpleasant to stay in. After arriving to Abja-Pauloja next day, we settled in with our host family. Their house was quite average sized, but everything inside hadn't yet been renovated, since they moved in not long ago. Other houses in the vicinity were similar to this one and mostly wooden. The host family was hospitable and provided us with everything that we needed. But a thing that struck me by surprise was when I opened the water valve in the school and muddy water poured out of the pipe. Other students were apparently not concerned by that. The school was not very spacious and had few occasional cracks in the walls, but unlike our school, it had its own mess hall. Buildings in the center of Tallinn were nicely renovated, but same cannot be said for structures on the edge of Tallinn. The Human Development Index places Estonia on the 40^th place and that is right about where I would place it, if I would be the judge.

By Matej Lenarcic