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I was a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 8:57 am
by Demeh
Visiting my partner for two weeks and then taking them home

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 9:32 am
by DaikatunaRevengeance
how long is the bus ride?

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 9:59 am
by Demeh
About three and a half hours

I got up at 3:45 AM this morning, to catch the 2.5 hour train, to muck about at the airport for 2 hours, for a 2.5 hour flight, then i had to muck about for 2 hours to get in this bus.

The bus has wi-fi because Estonia apparently rocks that way

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:04 am
by Demeh
It’s not necessarily a long trip as a whole but there’s quite some switching between modes of transportation

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:05 am
by Demeh
Also Estonia looks just like the Netherlands just a bit more snow right now

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 12:26 pm
by Bigdog
is the bus on fire

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 12:26 pm
by Bigdog
follow-up question: why is the bus not on fire

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 3:21 pm
by Demeh
Are buses in your country generally known for being on fire?

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 3:22 pm
by Demeh
...Did you want the bus to be on fire?

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 3:27 pm
by RIP Syndrome
follow-up follow-up question: do you personally think the bus should be on fire

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 4:53 pm
by Perrydotto
what are you looking forward to seeing the most in Estonia?

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:52 pm
by Demeh
Perrydotto wrote:
Tue Dec 03, 2019 4:53 pm
what are you looking forward to seeing the most in Estonia?
My partner, of course :crack:

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:54 pm
by Demeh
To follow up on that, Tallinn (the capital city) is also really pretty from what I’ve heard and I’m looking forward to spending time there

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:54 pm
by Demeh
RIP Syndrome wrote:
Tue Dec 03, 2019 3:27 pm
follow-up follow-up question: do you personally think the bus should be on fire
would be pretty metal ngl

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 2:09 am
by Madeline
Are you there yet

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 3:19 am
by Demeh
Madeline wrote:
Thu Dec 05, 2019 2:09 am
Are you there yet
Yeah I guess I should change the title huh

Re: I’m in a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 4:40 am
by Madeline
Demeh wrote:
Thu Dec 05, 2019 3:19 am


Yeah I guess I should change the title huh
It could’ve been a really long bus ride!!

Re: I was a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 1:32 pm
by Lorce
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Were you a transformer? :squintyjack:

Re: I was a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 2:23 pm
by Mechanical Ape
I was a bus riding through Estonia when my brain switched into an instant video chat in HSE Bristol's EU In-Office Support Unit (EISU). The messages were hilarious, though not all of them came from the Lord. There were a lot of somewhat lighthearted, ironic references to my reading, which I found amusing. In turn, I was sitting at a big black counter with a thin receptionist who looked like someone your mother might have met in Oxford.

"If you've got anything to say, let me know."

I thought: This

Re: I was a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 3:48 pm
by Demeh
Lorce wrote:
Thu Dec 05, 2019 1:32 pm
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Were you a transformer? :squintyjack:
Am

Re: I was a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 4:08 am
by Madeline
What’s it like being able to transform into a bus

Also, are you having a good time in Estonia with your partner

Re: I was a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 7:30 pm
by Vivianinatoga
Business partner or pleasure partner?

Re: I was a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 1:52 am
by Demeh
Madeline wrote:
Fri Dec 06, 2019 4:08 am
What’s it like being able to transform into a bus

Also, are you having a good time in Estonia with your partner
Kinda stressful to be honest. People are always asking me to drive them everywhere and then when I tell them I don’t have time they’re like “what the hell dude you’re a bus that’s, like, your purpose?”

Also heck yeah. We’ve been volunteering at this community center/school and have been cooking and baking a lot for groups of 15-20, and everyone is ecstatic about our food. Also, the kids are adorable and I’ve been playing a lot with them (playing here constitutes just running after them)

Re: I was a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 1:53 am
by Demeh
Davyinatoga wrote:
Fri Dec 06, 2019 7:30 pm
Business partner or pleasure partner?
Pleasure, lots and lots of pleasure

Re: I was a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:24 am
by Demeh
I have returned to the land of clogs and windmills

Re: I was a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:42 am
by Perrydotto
Give us some deets about your funtimes if you like!

Re: I was a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 7:51 am
by Fizzbuzz
Demeh wrote:
Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:24 am
I have returned to the land of clogs and windmills
Are you still a bus?

Re: I was a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2019 2:35 pm
by Demeh
Perrydotto wrote:
Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:42 am
Give us some deets about your funtimes if you like!
Right, I hadn't been on here for a while

I mean, as I said before, we did a lot of cooking and baking. Soup, stamppot, risotto, pumpkin/apple/strawberry pie... All in all everything was very well received. We'd get up in the morning, make oatmeal for breakfast, and then start on lunch.

One adorable thing is that at this manor they do a little song before each meal, like some sort of prayer. It's... adorable :-D . It goes like:

thank you for the food
thank you for the food
thank you for the food
thank you for the food
it's healing
it's healing
it's healing me
I love you
I love you
I love you

Of course, very simple (and generally done in Estonian) but we both thought it was a nice way of showing appreciation for your food.

Free days were spent in a mixture of chilling and going out. Tartu is a nearby village which was nice, and we spent the last three days in Tallinn, the capital city. Tallinn I have deemed "okay", its old town is very pretty but I wasn't very taken by the rest of the city.

let's see what else

I learned to juggle and am still doing it at home! The manor does a lot of things with circus stuff, but most notable in all of Estonia was the current hype regarding kendama:

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one of these

Seriously, 50% of Estonia's youth was walking around with one of these. It was the playground hype, and this included the kids at the manor

we of course went to a christmas market and both got our traditional ugly christmas mug, but my partner's broke :fluttersmith: . They then bought a new one, which was apparently a decorative one, because it broke when they poured tea into it.

then they said fuck it and created their own using a white mug and a marker, weird problems require weird solutions :v:

i suppose that's about all I can come up with now, thanks for asking :-P

Re: I was a bus riding through Estonia AMA

Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2019 2:36 pm
by Demeh
Fizzbuzz wrote:
Wed Dec 18, 2019 7:51 am
Are you still a bus?
a bus' journey is never over