My first couchsurfing event

“Pancakes for lunch” I proposed on Tallinn Couchsurfing Activites page. I was curious to see who these travelers in Estonia at this time of year are and also wanted to make one little more chance for them to meet each other.

 I’m afraid my parents would not be overexcited to meet travelers in their own living room speaking in a language they do not understand, so I opted for a cosy, yet cheap, pancake restaurant in the old town.

I published the event and waited anxiously similar to a teenager after posting a Facebook status update hoping to be “liked”. Some half an hour later I got the first confirmation, a good relief. In the end we were four people in total. A Spanish chica recently moved to Tallinn to teach Spanish, an Aussi mate in a visa limbo waiting for Russian visa and a veteran Guatemalan chico with one year and six months of life and work experience in Estonia (in a youth hostel). 

As much as I had thoroughly enjoyed deep, meaningful conversations and discussions with my old term and very close friends in Estonia, it was also so fun for a moment to be back in the world of travel, right there in the Old Town of Tallinn, eating pancakes filled with mushrooms and blue cheese, and sharing travel stories and future aspirations.

We had fun, they had some useful information for each other, I was able to help them out with some few little questions and I know at least two of them met up again afterwards. Made me happy.