final words in this blog

With this 50th post i'm finishig this blog. The purpose of the blog was to write about my experiences in South Africa. Now I'm back home (still haven't recovered!) and there's no point in continuing the blog - I'm not doing anything interesting and worth describing here. However, this blog still remains online, so those who are interested can still read it.

Who knows, maybe someday I'll go back to South Africa or somewhere else and then I'll start writing the blog again. Thank's everyone who visited my blog! Until next time!

back home..

Exactly this time last week I was in Cape Town airport, waiting for my flight. Now I've been home for almost a week. I have a few thoughts and feelings i'd like to express.

It is extremely difficult to readjust to the life here in Estonia again. I got so used to South Africa, driving to school every morning with the Beetle, spending time with the students and giving them a lift every evening (and them fighting for a place in the Beetle!). I miss all of that and I miss the sun and the warmth, the blue sky, the mountains and the huge wide open landscape. Here in Europe it's almost winter, I don't even mind the cold so much as the absence of the sun, which is really getting me down. I miss the warm and open people, always smiling, laughing, dancing and feeling so free, despite their problems - they have much less than we do in terms of material things, but they are so much more happy.. I'm trying very hard to retain inside me the warmth and happiness that South Africa gave me, but it is incredibly difficult - I feel that already with the first few days here I've become more serious again. Not seeing these people any more and not experiencing the things we did togehter every day in South Africa makes me feel like I've been deprived of something essential, as if I've suffered some great loss...

I can say one thing for sure- the 4 months I spent in South Africa has probably been the best time of my life, it's unlike anything I've ever experienced.
You'll find the last pictures I took in South Africa here.

My dear friends in South Africa, I miss you so much!