Small tidbits

Tere-tere!

Estonian course is still my favorite so it's nothing new about that. Still haven't learned about partitive, so it still seems relatively easy :D

• Tartu is truly magical city. Why?

Sitting in (luckily the one and only) boring lecture in Physicum a random guy walks past the windows while smoking pipe 0_o And today it happened again - only looking from Chemicum. I don't think it was the same guy.... And I still can't decide if it's simply fancy or some sort of new hipster thing. But, hey - looks cool!

A question - what Latvians do when they have "apple year" in their garden? Usually it's - trying to give them away to friends, relatives, anyone who has gotten slightly less amount apples from their garden, making juices etc.
What do "Tartu-ians" in apple year? They just put a box of apples in bus stop. Okey, this bus stop is quite far from city center and connects institutes of chemistry, physics and medicine. Still - so tasty apples! I should have taken more than just two...
And they put apple boxes near house gates too. Seems like very effective system. At least I like it! :D

• Kitchen-y things

Last weekend I decided to try and make banana pancakes.

Challenge No.1. - I have never made even normal pancakes (from start till end).
Challenge No.2. - no scales or cup with mL on it.
Challenge No.3. - small pan (ok, later I borrowed a bigger one from flatmate :D )

The outcome? Mountain (but in Latvian and Estonian sense of mountains) of terribly delicious pancakes - with approval stamp from my flatmates in form of "I have to admit, you are a good cook".
Which is something I never would have thought to hear maybe year or two before...

• Sort of serious stuff

Talked with my MSc thesis supervisor, finally know (or more like - have slight inkling) what my topic will be. And I'm excited. And very, very scared.

But that's not the important thing I wanted to write. The best thing is just two sentences from my supervisor "There are types of master's work when you go to lab, have like, thousands of samples, one method you use to analyse them and afterwards compare results. This (referring to my topic) will not be the case."

And I can't wait next weekend, when I'm going home :3
But I really don't wait for 2am in Monday when I will have to drag my awfully heavy and full bag of home made stuff from bus stop to dorms... -_-
But enough of whining - I'm going to enjoy Teadlaste Öö (researchers night) tonight (:

Oh, and I probably have mentioned to at least some of you, that one of things I want want are spices (f.e. basil, oh my, basil) in pots, so you can use them fresh. So my joy of today is rosemary! First step to collect them all :D

P.s. Still waiting for Laiksne to write something here too...