... has passed, when Estonia got her Independence again. Time just have went fast.
If we think back for that 20 years, how things was then and how it is now, when it has been changed so much with this time and I believe, that there will come more changes.
What do I remember from that past 20 years. It is many different things. Remember how it was to get independence and shortly after that we was need to defend it, because Russian military came into our capital with tanks and Estonians defended TV tower.
Summer later we got our own currency. Ruble was exchanged with crown. Now 19 years later crown has been exchanged to euros. Is that good or bad - in my opinion, it has both sides, but as for the public and ordinary people, it has made more concern than good things. Lately has this concern came to the politicians and economics. Would we have had same problem, if we would had kept crown, that will remain the question, what will never get answer.
Other things, what came with our independence was that we could travel more abroad. First it was not very easy and it was also very expensive, but when our country improved that we can behave, it started to get easier to travel. More easier started it to be when we joined with Schengen and European Union, the traveling went much more easier for Estonian people. That has made people to feel free.
Also some other things have happened during this time. Most times has been that people has been satisfied, some of the time people has not been that. Always can find things, what we might not like, we might not like decisions what politicians have took, but on the other hand, we can't say much about it, since it has been us, who has been chose them to represent us.
Today it is celebration day. We have had our independence for 20 years and it is bit more than half of my life. I was just a schoolgirl when our country got independent and now 20 years later I have seen how Estonia has grown from the day we got free from Soviet Union.
Today evening I just miss that I am not in Estonia. In Tallinn, they have big song festival again for remember the singing revolution. Only this time it is not that we need to sing us free. This time it is for at remember those times and also to show the world, that Estonians holding together no matter what.
Have a nice Independent day my dear fellow countrymen!
