We have received our first postcard from Estonia, and more concretely, from the city of Tartu; this is a place I have a special love for, as I spent one Summer month there, about a decade ago, in a 4-week course for learning the rudiments of the Estonian language.
The postcard came to us from Oksana, a teacher of Russian at the Tartu University, and 2999 kilometers away from us.
Tartu boasts of the oldest university in the country (founded in the seventeenth century), and is a bit like Santiago de Compostela: a proud, old, University city and cultural centre of its country. In Oksana's postcard we can see some of the typical landmarks of the place: the Neoclassical Main University Building, a mural nearby with the same building, the Astronomical Observatory, a boat race on the Emajogi river, that divides the town in two...
Want to learn more of the place? You can take a peek here, here and here, or alternatively, you can read what Oksana wrote for us in her postcard.
Thank you, Oksana, for your generosity in sending this card and sharing an intimate piece of yourself in your card too!
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