Reading The Return of the Elephant 12

Ger Ger gave up cross-country biking and took the bus.

On board, she managed to watch 1.5 movies before she disembarked at Tallinn bus station.

She took the tram to the old town, and rested a while at a hotel there.

After a little reading, she ventured out to the Estonian old town.

The walking stirred up quite an appetite in her, and she told the waiter outside of a restaurant that she could eat a cow. In response, the waiter showed her some beef dishes.

But she was not too eager to eat what she could easily find in Canada, so she said goodbye to the waiter and looked for something more foreign.

Finally she found the foreignness she was looking for, in this nearly unreadable menu, and ordered something that she could not pronounce.

While waiting, she pulled out Wanchain’s book and began reading.

The food arrived. It was delicious, although she could not identify its content. Notwithstanding the strange typography of the menu and the mysterious ingredients of the stew, her meal there was the best one she had thus far on this trip.

Such enjoyable experience must be shared. Thus after dinner, she bought some postcards and began telling her friends at Jia Jia Kingdom about her trip.

When she was ready to mail the postcards, she couldn’t find the mail box. She walked and walked. Then she saw a strange-looking green box with a slit opening mounted on the exterior of a shop. She flipped through her travel book to look for information on Estonian postal service, and it said that the mail box was orange in colour. In addition, the travel book said, “Don’t put your mail in the green box. It’s a garbage bin.” She looked at the green box with the slit opening again. It was in every way resembling a mail box.

She went into the shop and asked the shopkeeper, “Excuse me, is that green box outside a mail box?”

“Yes.”