Hello !

In few days it will be exactly 2 months that I'm arrived in Narva. It's very difficult now to describe every moments and feelings passed in Estonia. In the beginning it was a curious sensation, between the exciting and the fear of the unknown. I needed to break my habits, discover every days a new thing. For me it was very interesting, like to start a parallel life. Today, I don't feel a kind of culture shock, and every day is not the same. I needed to leave my country and discover something new. So I think in this way it was no too difficult for me to try to adapt myself. Especially when you have a great team like VitaTiim and my mentor who don't hesitate to help you. And I've also met new friends with who I have a lot of things in common.

The most difficult for me was probably the communication. In france, the language lessons are not very good for a lot of reasons : we learn just for the exams and no to speak, the lessons are more in the comprehension than the communication, and many people think that someone who want to go to France must speak French :) Before to go to Narva, I had never really spoken another langage. I could understand, but it was difficult for me to speak, to find my words and to accept my mistakes. Now my english is better, I can have a discussion. But it sometimes difficult in Narva because everybody doesn't speak English. Even if sometimes the situations were very uncomfortable because the incommunicability (but very funny with a step back), it's also a situation unique for to improve my russian. Now it's still difficult to speak, but my understanding level is better and I'm less afraid to speak and make mistakes. I hope.

But the good point is a real step back about my life in France. Before, I was afraid to do some easy things. For exemple to talk to unknown people, speak another langage and other stupid things like this :). Now, after have done this (often all in the same time), many things in France for me seems very easy and accessible now.

In conclusion, I would resume the beginning of my evs by few words : discovering, to try to find his place, to be open, flexible, and not to be afraid to forget and break his habits.

I will try to put one video for each post. Because sometime (but not always), the pictures are better than the words, and because I like to shoot/edit my own pictures. The first video is a melting-pot of videos shot during my first month in Estonia. We have some pictures from Narva, Sillamäe (where VitaTiim where invited to the Breaking Barrier's festival, a panorama of Tallinn and a walk in Narva-Jõesuu.

Bye !

First impressions

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