Back at work
Back at work from today. Even got some work eventually after spending the first two hours doing nothing (well, except for one six word job). Bleh... don't really want for the holidays to be over, but cannot be helped - and it was four weeks after all.
Finally got around to going to the beach today (after work, that is) - yay! Who knows, maybe the weather will turn all cold again tomorrow. The water was marvellous, although it felt surprisingly cold to start with - colder than last week at Stroomi (where I only really got my feet wet), and felt more like +18°C than the +20 that it apparently was. Perhaps it was the wind that made it feel cooler. In any case, once I boldly managed to get all of myself wet, it felt very nice.
The trip home unfortunately was less nice, as there was also a gang of eight youths or so coming from the beach on the bus, in high spirits -> lots of restless pushing and shoving each other (and other people) and playing "music" VERY LOUD and "singing" (yelling, that is) along - all about the bronze soldier. *bangs head at desk repeatedly* And when a friend of mum's whom we met on the bus asked them to calm down (in Estonian), they got awfully mad of course and started yelling at her, telling her to speak Russian, shouting/yelling the "song" even louder and making all sorts of obnoxious comments, most of which I fortunately did not understand (alas, I did understand enough to know it was not nice). And then they called her a nationalist fascist and a Nazi, duh (I occasionally wonder if it's all they're capable of saying). And then the oldest of the guys (18-20-ish) kicked her, too - yay, what a tough guy, attacking a woman in her fifties. Gah. I hate people, sometimes more than other times.
The sea was still nice though. If the weather stays as it is, I'm hoping I'll get off work early enough to go again.
Finally got around to going to the beach today (after work, that is) - yay! Who knows, maybe the weather will turn all cold again tomorrow. The water was marvellous, although it felt surprisingly cold to start with - colder than last week at Stroomi (where I only really got my feet wet), and felt more like +18°C than the +20 that it apparently was. Perhaps it was the wind that made it feel cooler. In any case, once I boldly managed to get all of myself wet, it felt very nice.
The trip home unfortunately was less nice, as there was also a gang of eight youths or so coming from the beach on the bus, in high spirits -> lots of restless pushing and shoving each other (and other people) and playing "music" VERY LOUD and "singing" (yelling, that is) along - all about the bronze soldier. *bangs head at desk repeatedly* And when a friend of mum's whom we met on the bus asked them to calm down (in Estonian), they got awfully mad of course and started yelling at her, telling her to speak Russian, shouting/yelling the "song" even louder and making all sorts of obnoxious comments, most of which I fortunately did not understand (alas, I did understand enough to know it was not nice). And then they called her a nationalist fascist and a Nazi, duh (I occasionally wonder if it's all they're capable of saying). And then the oldest of the guys (18-20-ish) kicked her, too - yay, what a tough guy, attacking a woman in her fifties. Gah. I hate people, sometimes more than other times.
The sea was still nice though. If the weather stays as it is, I'm hoping I'll get off work early enough to go again.