Almost a month after battle school and man do i miss it...

on friday will be a month since i flew out of Vancouver to come back "home" to Estonia. in battle school i spent most of my time with four people. Brent, Eddie, Jordan and Lisa. now that i'm back "home" with my family i live with four people, my mom, my dad, my sister Eliazabeth(10) and my Brother peter(2). living with the battle schoolers was waaaaay easier. there were days when i wanted to slice, dice and utterly murder the battle school people, but not quite as many in 6 weeks as i've wanted to kill my family in the not even month i've been back. before i went to battle school everyone said "it's going to be so hard and intense" and "battle school is so challenging" and so on. but now i find my self missing the life of ease (in comparison to this) that i lived in vancouver. today i have been especially missing that. let me explain why. starting yseterday we've been on "vacation" as in my parents don't have to go in to work. i never get vacation, i'm still a baby sitting, school work doing, blogging machine. so today we decided to go into to town and do some stuff since the sun was shining and the earth looked deceptively peaceful and beautiful. so after going to HansaPank and getting my new I.D. card (in my new picture i look homicidal...) we went into old town to the tourist info because since my parents have free time they want to try playing tourist, oh won't that be fun...son after going to tourist info we decided to go on a search for the fabled Tallinn public library.

now wait, doesn't this day sound happy and peaceful so far? heck no! you have to factor in that the whole morning we were fighting about God knows what (i don't even remember anymore) and Peter had been screaming and now as we walked and trammed all over Tallinn Peter continued to make sure we couldn't forget his existence. so finally we did get to a library. not the Tallin public library, but the Estonian national library. no big difference you think right? well not to bad actually, but think about it like this. the national library is like the the library of congress. and we wanted a normal sized library with a nice small english section. well after visiting the toilets (when i'm alone this is never a time consuming thing to do, but with a family...30 minutes?) we then argued, and argued, and tried to stop peter from going in the girl bathroom, and then finally to shut him up i took him in the men's room and had to keep him from playing in the urinals. all in all quite stressful. then after another good fun argument (sarcasm heavily implied) we split up and my dad, sister and I went in and my mom stayed outside with Peter. and despite how stressful it was to get there i must admit i did quite enjoy the library once i was in and i now know my cure for cabin fever this winter, go to the national library and read science and religion books! (i know i'm a nerd, don't like it? too bad...)

so anyway after a short look in the library we went and got my mom and then because we love causeing ourselves stress we argued some more about what to do. "let's go home"
"i don't want to go home, it's a beautiful day. let's be outside"
"but there's nothing to do out here"
"sure there is..."
"got any ideas?"
"umm..."
"well then!"
so then i, being the only smart one on planet mars, came up with a bright idea, we could either go to tourist info and ask where the public library is or go to apollo bookstore and check out their famed english section. in the end we decided to do both. so with that stress over with (no thanks to anyone but me) we went to tourist info and found out where the public library was, and then of course had to have another argument about whether to go to the bookstore or library first. so after arguing about that, and a fun argument about how much Elizabeth kept complaining, we went to apollo and then to the library. and just finding the library was stressful enough, the crazy place was impossible to find, and then even after finding it we found it this was the "Estonian only" branch of the library system, so no English books. great.

so then we finally go home with me having a horrible headache and Elizabeth having tripped and scraed her knee on the way home. and so i went and lay down for a while Peter found stuff to scream about for a while and my dad went to buy supper. we then ate a pretty nice supper and sat down for a family meeting to discuss what we were doing for the rest of the night. and some where in there my mom brought up the evil subject of school and my sister freaked saying this is vacation, she doesn't want to do work. ummm, i might procrastinate but she just doesn't do her work, what does she need a vacation from? and once my mom said that freaked and started crying and ran into her room and i just said i thought faimly meetings where people burst into tears for no reason are retarded. and i still hold that opinion. so anyway then i went to the computer, put on dashboard confessional, "the places you have come to fear the most", and mellowed out as i gave you this blog post. so anyway, here is my final thesis, life here is a million times more stressful and intense than life in vancouver ever was. and i miss it. a lot. anyway, i want to end this on a positive note so here we go! i mentioned i got my new idea card today and beside me looking homicidal i also have something new written on the back. "vajab töötamiseks tööluba" do you know what tha means? of course not! but i do! it means i can get a job! well, i need parental permission but at least i can get a job! i've been wanting an income and now that's a legal possibilty! YAY! it's a definite upgrade from "ei ole lubatatud töötada" meaning "not allowed to work" so anyway, if anyone in Estonia is looking for an attractive, theatrical, fluent english speaking young man with a flexible schedule, call 56469016. anyway, now i'm done.