Written by Florentine and Katharina

Exchange Germany- Estonia

In the family of Keitlin Kõoleth

When we just arrived in Estonia in Kanepi, we were surprised that the city is so small but even has got a school which is quiet big. The courses are very different to our school in Germany, because here there are only 15-20 students in one grade and in Germany there are about 90-110 in one grade. We really enjoied the school bell, because it has got such an nice sound. In Germany there is only a boring school bell. The age is also different than in Germany, because in Estonia the children go to scholl when they are 7 and in Germany when there are 5 or 6 years old. The lessons were very relaxed especially the music lessson where we only sang something. On the first morning, when we waked up, all was covered in snow and we were so excited, because in Germany we normaly don`t have snow in april. 

We were heartly welcomed an we felt very great and like being home. The family was very nice and cared a lot about us. We felt very well. Everytime we got hungry they made something really great to eat for us. At least we are a litte bit sad to go home to German, because we had such a Gerat time there.

Even Kanepi is a small town it has got a beautiful nature with woods and lakes and a supermarket where we bought sometimes something to drink or to eat in the breaks.

But Estonia has got also larger cities like Tartu, where we went shopping on Saturday. There we met a good friend from Germany who is doing an one year Exchange to Estonia. It was very exicited and we are very grateful that our host family made this possible. 

Even we are happy to see our real family again we are sad to leave Estonia and hope that we could come back once in our life.