Learning Estonian — Beginning of a Journal

Well now, I’ve decided to take up Estonian.  My doing that is not as random as it might first appear if you know that certain of my friends are Estonian,  of Estonian descent, or have participated in the descendency of the descendents conjugally with the Estonian.  The descendents and the non-descendent parent have undertaken the quest of learning the language, and I thought how fun it would be to all learn it together.

So here I am — a few non-contiguous days into it, and it occurred to me to keep a journal, and that in spite of the broadcast commitment I would be making to the world.  Similar to the gal who decided to blog about doing all the Julia Childs recipes.

This, then, is the first installment of the journal.  I’m not going to be