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Today went by quite quickly. There was a history test and I think it went good. I didn't do one question right, because I didn't know the year when the germans ocupied Estonia and we had to put things in order so.. I'm losing 3 points for that -.- Oh well, zappens.

It's snowing.. I hate snow, really. It's so wet and cold etc. and besides, it's gonna melt quickly again, because it's +1 degrees C. So pointless. It's less than a month to my birthday.. I don't have any feelings for it, for me it's just an ordinary day. Funny, I used to start planning my b'day the day after my previous one. And well, we planned Tiina'as birthday 2 months earlier or so and it didn't come out so well. I'm not sure if I'm even gonna celebrate this year.. Well okay, maybe I'm just grumpy right now.

I went to my great-grandmother's funeral on Saturday. It was so depressing. I haven't even talked to her properly- ever. She lives.. khm,lived in Tammsalu. I only went there twice so I can't tell that she was a very close person to me. I still cried a little bit. I was okay when the guy was reading the speech, but when I saw my dad, his brother and their relatives carring away the coffin, then... I just couldn't help it.

Let's end those depressing topics! So, what good thigs have happened recently.. I made a new friend (I). His name is Jan (No, Mirjam and Eliis, he's not from our class :D). I was playing yatzy on playray so he started talking to me and stuff. He's quite annoying really :D He claims to be 21 or so, but.. Maybe it's just me, but he sounds like a 15 y-o. Well, he doesn't sound, but our conversations are quite the same like they are with my aged friends. Oh well..

My brother has been in Australia for a month now. We tak to him frequently through skype and he sends us some pictures too. On sunday, we even checked out his house on Google Earth! I love that program, after the "tour" in Australia, dad let me look around in Sapporo, Japan. Oh, and Okinawa too. I knew that Japan isn't the prettiest place on earth, well, atleast the big cities where the houses are right nex o each other and there's no room between them, but when my mother saw that she was like: "Is that really the place you want to go?". So she was pretty surprised. For some reason I now want to go there even more. But there's one problem. If I ever go there, then I'm probrably gonna get a nickname Ooki Maarja - big Maarja, because the height differece between me and an average japanese person is.. quite big. The girls are normally 160 cm high but I'm 180... kusooo.

Stay genki! (lol it sounds so off :D)

Ooki/Seitaka Maarja
:3

Long time no see(n), huh :D

Oops, I accidentaly just posted the title at first.. Hehe, fail.
So.. school... God I hate it. I mean, there are some classes that are bearable, like English and Biology and Math and Physics, but some of them are just.. awful. I don't understand chemistry so much. I know that it is very logical and stuff, but I really don't like the teacher. And then Russian. No comments about that. I just don't like it.
I found out a few days ago, that there's going to be 2 preliminary exams just before Christmas. Physics and hisory. Fantastic. I can manage history if I study hard, since last time I got an A (yay), but physics.. Now that's gonna be tough. I have to study study study and maybe, wth my mom's help, I can get some extra classes in it. Though I don't really like that idea, since when it's just me and the teacher then.. This would be a total fail. I just know that I would make a fool of myself.

Pwah, it's depressing to write about school.

One of the best things that has happened in past month, is that Tiina joined the Elise's choir. Well, that actually happened last Wendsday and she's still on noviciate (it should mean "katseaeg", but that word is just... weird :D). That means, that if her voice won't get better (even with Rutt's audio unit *again, a weird word that should mean "hääleseade"*), then she won't be suited for the choir. It sucks, because it would be so cool if we were to sing in the same group.

My dad found a great site called www.thejapanese.com. So basially it's a place to learn Japanese, especially Hiragana, Katakana and probrably Kanji too. It's the best site I have seen so far. There's also genkijapan.com, but it's not so thorough as the first one. I also found a Japanese grammar book at Rahvaraamat and my mom promised to buy that for me. So in general, if I don't have enough time to study Japanese now, then I will study it as much as possible on the winter holiday. I want to learn Japanese so much, it's such a beautiful language! And also, my parents support the idea to go to Japan as an exhange student. I LOVE MY PARENTS! haha. I will try my best and try to become the person that is going to be actually sent to Japan. So, Gambate, watashi!

Mata ne~!

Maarja.