reflections on 2007, written by an Estonian woman (not me!) and shared with her permission

The end of the April in Estonia was anything but calm... we had sort of riots... But everything is calm now and I hope we all learn from it. On April 28th was the first time in my life when
I got the SMS from the Estonian Government: "Please stay at home, do
not let yourself be provoked"... If you're interested to know more, you can click the links below It's from Estonian media but with English subtitles. I think you get quite good overview
what it was really about... at least from Estonia's point of view...
Both videos are 10 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPw3pYGELA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WAFNVFNME0&feature=related

In December Estonia joined with Schengen. So… Welcome to Estonia!
Here's one clip for trying to make you visit Tallinn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3X_tr0PEog

About sport… Estonians got some medals… But let's not talk about football…
But it was culturally good year…
In summer we had a Song Festival. And we were very lucky with the weather. Nice and sunny! If you want to see 20,000 young people singing at the same time: you can hear one of the songs called "Palve" (means "Prayer")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_epUNDItzfk&feature=related

We didn't do well in Eurovision. My favourite song didn't win Estonian song contest, so you probably haven't heard it. It's now in one Estonian new musical "Romeo and Julia"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKVcw9fw22E&feature=related

If you want to listen more the most beautiful language in the world (Estonian, of course). There's one link: Song from one of my favourite Estonian composers (with English subtitles):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOrEdIxGPoA