In every port city of the world ...

... there is an Estonian. Singapore has many big ports and that means there are more of us here than we thought. Yesterday we finally found 4 - dad is working as operations manager for a restaurant business, mum stays at home with two kids - girl 10, boy 6. We had a nice afternoon at their place and the kids bonded fairly quickly and learned some Estonian games that I have forgotten all about. They know a few more Estonians, so there might be enough for the choir and folkdance group ,-) and christmas party etc. Well, luckily I felt we had enough to talk about and enough common interests in order for it not to be a get-together just because of being fellow Estonians. They also live fairly close and two other Estonian girls live just round the corner from us.
Beatrice had a week off and we tryed to keep ourselves entertained. Went to Mia's on Tuesday, she had invited some Korean kids from Alex'es class with their mums so I had an opportunity to brush up my Korean as some of them don't speak much English. Funnily quite a lot of the vocabularly is still somewhere in the far corners of the brain and it actually comes out again when needed.
On Wednesday Beatrice had a playday at her new friend James'es house. They are a big family with 4 children but all of them extremely nice. And lucky Beatrice - they live next door to her "old" good friend Nikky, so she could pop round there as well afterwards.
On Thursday we went to the Science centre - Beatrice's favourite attraction here - together with her big Korean friends, the twins. Had a great day and discovered some new areas in the centre including an eco-garden with a tree-house.
Beatrice's highlight of the week was probably her first piano lesson on Saturday. She had been quite hesitant for a while but was completely extatic afterwards and wanted to go back the same night. The teacher is here on the condo and seems really sweet. So of course we went out and bought a keyboard on Sunday as our piano is sadly and lonely in storage in Estonia.
Oh, and yes, she passed the Taekwondo test - so now white belt with yellow tips.