Thursday: free time and SOHO vibes
May 31, 2018
Thurday,
the sun really started to shine and shorts, skirts and tops were pulled out of
the suitcases. The morning and afternoon were reserved for research group
activities. Therefore, the groups went there own way and the honours students
scattered around Tallinn.
INNOVE, an
educational centre founded by the Ministry of Education, opened their doors for
the research group Estucation. They learned about the Estonian school system
and how they had achieved high scores in the PISA 2015 – the greatest
international study for student achievements.
Take it
E-asy visited e-kool, a startup that is busy with providing all schools a
platform that digitalizes processes such as logkeeping and keeping contact with
parents, students and the government, regarding data of the student. In contrast
to the uprising such a platform would cause in the Netherlands, the Estonians
seem to have no issues with their data being collected like that, ‘it makes
things a lot easier!’
The New
Sovjeties and the Historians visited the beautiful Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.
They were also planning on going to the Sovjet market, however, they came to
realize that the Sovjet market as they had imagined it, no longer existed. The
now ‘ex-Sovjet market’ appears to be a food and hipster market, which reminded
some of the dutch ‘Markthal’ in Rotterdam. The New Sovjeties also had a talk
with Tanel Kerikmäe, an international lawyer, who teaches European Law and is director
of Tallinn Law School of Tallinn University of Technology. The historians
partly joined on the trip to the University and also visited the Tallinn City
Museum, to take in some more culture.
Techy
Madness went to Haigla, a regional psychiatric clinic. There they met up with a
psychologist who is treating patients suffering from first onset psychosis. The
treatment includes most of the ‘traditional’ elements, such as therapy and
pharmaceuticals. However, since recently they also incorporate a computer
based-cognitive training: ‘Cogmed’, which is a rather new intervention and
unique in Estonia. Digitalisation; even in fighting mental illness!
For some
groups the ‘sightseeing’ happened the night before and they took the day to
recover from a great night, while working on their research question and
presentation, back in the hostel.
These are just a selection of the exciting things that were
done on thurday.
In the
evening, we all got together again for a lovely dinner in the SOHO neighbourhood
of Tallinn. Our eating manners got challenged as we stepped food into an Indian restaurant. Several sauces and curries were served. Awaiting for what else was to come, some carefully tried the served sauces. Some were happily, others less happily surprised by the spices. When the naan breads and rice arrived, there was a little relieve; 'this provides a (semi-)proper way to have dinner!'
After dinner there was room for some quality time together, as we got to enjoy a wonderful salsa lesson by Carlos, some hips were swung! After this, the group, again, scattered around the neighbourhood as many tried to find a nice spot to enjoy a drink before bed.
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