Estonia's memories of Lithuania

Hi, today I'm publishing the compositions of the Estonian students. 

Please check what they have remembered best from their trip to Lithuania.

Best! :)

My trip to Lithuania

by Maret Hobolainen

My trip to Lithuania started very early. We had to go to Tallinn to get the bus that drives us 

in the Vilnius. The bus that brings us to Vilnius was Lux Express. Altough the drive was nine hours long I really liked it. The seats in our bus were very comfortable and we had a lot of space in there. There was free coffe and hot chocolate too. It was very nice drive.

            When we finally arrived to Vilnius, we had to wait to another bus that drives us to our sleeping place. We waited it for two hours. When we finally got to our hotel it was too late to do something so we went 

to sleep.

            In the next day we went to the school. It was in a little cute village. There wasn’t too many students in this school but I liked it. It looks so friendly and cozy. We also visited some museums in that day. 

Some of them were quite boring. Some of them were interesting. We visited the Vilinius Old Town too 

at that day. The Old Town was quite similar to Tallinn but I liked it. It was very beautyful.

            In our last day in Lithuania we visited most interesting museum I’ve ever been. It was so cool. 

We went museum that talks about Russian occupation in Lithuania. There was like a play and we were part of this. That was very cool experiance.

            I liked my trip to Vilnius very much. It was very interesting and instructive. I hope that I can come back to Lithuania some time.

Lithuania

by Madis Mattus

I will start form the part when we arrived in Vilnius because my bus trip that lasted 9 hours is not so interesting. When we arrived in Vilnius we had to wait for 2 hours outside where was cold and really freezing, we had to wait because nobody didn’t know where did we get off the bus. Finally when everybody were complaining how cold it is, we were found and then began our adventure in Lithuania.

 On the 1th day we visited a geographic and climbed on a hill. The second day we visited a church 

and saw a monument next to the church, later we went to a historical museum, we had our own guide 

who speaked about the jewellery,treasure and more historical items.

I dont quite remember everything because I have some memorizing problems, I jumped on a trampoline 

and then I broke my nose with my knee, sounds weird but it’s possible, but it all happened in Estonia, 

not in Lithuania.

The third day we were in a museum and ate in a beautiful restaurant, also we made cepelines 

in the restaurant. The last day we visited a Soviet bunker where we had a lot of fun, we learned how to wear a gas mask, also we weared the coats from that time. At the evening we played bowling and ate a very large pizza. I really had a wonderful time and I will definetely visit Lithuania again.

My Comenius days in Lithuania

by Kristiina Lümat

It was my first time in Lithuania. First we had to drive two hours to Tallinn to get on the bus. Then we drove about 8-9 hours.

We were told to get off the bus in the bus station next to Panorama. But there was a problem with it, because there is 2 Panoramas on Vilnius – big shopping center and also hotel. Of course we came out next to the wrong one. We had to wait for 2 hours before our hosts found us. Then we talked about it and it came out that there was misunderstood with language – we waited in bus stop and not in bus station. But 

in Estonian language its the same. We got a lesson for rest of our lives. We laughed about it a long time after.

When we got to hotel – which was acually simple school dorm. We unpacked our things and went to dinner. Later when others came to check out our room they were surprised that we had twice as big trashcan 

as they had and also we had fridge and cupboard and coat rack.

The places what we visited were very interesting. Especially the KGB prison and former soviet civil defense base (so called bunker), where was survival drama about life in Soviet Union 1984. During that survival drama we had big coats and we were allowed to answer only : „Tak tochno! – mean yes and „net, nikak net“ – what means no. If we laughed or made mistakes against rules, we got punishment. The general swore was it very funny. I know Russian and it was 20 times more funny because nothing went missing 

in translation. Then we saw old soviet shop with few things and old medical care room.

In KGB prison were guide who talked really interesting, i didnt want miss not a single word.

We also visited place called Tuskulenai manor where were found around 724 bodies shot by Soviet regime between 1944 and 1947. It was really sceary place and when i went in i got a head ache immediatly. 

But its still very faschinating.

I liked also our free time in shopping center and i bought gifts to my friends. I have to say that in Lithuania are prices cheaper than in Estonia.

I liked my visit and its always sad to leave new fiends so qickly.

My Comenius days in Lithuania

by Anna-Lotta Kaukes

            When I first heard that there was a chance to go to Lithuania, I knew that I wanted to know. Luckily, our group consisted of quite friendly and co-operative people. The drive there was very long. We had to wake up at 2am, to catch a bus which took us to the capital and from there we caught a bus to Lithuania.

            Our project members were all very great. We all got along quite well and friendly. I can't complain about anything about them, as they were all great fun to be around. 

            During our stay in Vilnius we got up to a lot of things, not including the activities we did as a part of the project. For example, one night, at 10.30pm we decided to go out and buy ourselves some pizza, as we had spotted a place earlier. Me and two others of our group ventured out in the night to get those said delicious food items. When we reached the pizza place, we realised that none of us spoke Lithuanian and therefore we ordered our food depending sorely on the pictures that had been provided on the menus.

            The prices in Lithuania were drastically different from the prices in Estonia. Everything was very very cheap and that was one of the best discoveries. Before I went to Lithuania, some people told me that it will be very expensive there and whatnot, but turns out they were as wrong as one can be.

            In conclusion, I really enjoyed the trip and the whole project in Lithuania. If I ever had the chance I would surely go again. Everyone was very nice and not at all always angry looking like us, Estonians, sometimes tend to look.