(by Siiri)

MoKS resident artist Masayo and me we were just cleaning the chanterelles when... there they were ... arrived. During a few hours, the cores of all the groups. Bits of Error Collective after Playground Italians, Maboro Maiko (to accompany Masayo) after some more Error Collective. And then the CamObs Danny along with the crew – Patrick after Mari, Tuuli after Patrick and vice versa, as some of them disappeared to some more chanterelle picking in the mean time. So many arrivals! First everyone was guided to their rooms, and after they got to know their space and settled in, more and more people found their way to the dining hall.
After long hours waiting patiently, finally at half past 9 the dinner was served by the crew – delicious chanterelle quiche. And one without mushrooms, and one meal without eggs and butter as well.
After the dinner we had a greeting and introduction speech about this years' symposium and its basic idea from John as well as the circle of „getting to know each other”. It appeared quickly that we have artists and non-artists gathered to participate this year (again?) – for example the designers and architects refused to call themselves as “artist“. We also have our own local biologist to help us out to differentiate a tick from a little spider, and in the mean time write his own blog (in Estonian).
For food we were enjoying the donations from Mari K. and her mother from Mooste garden, and a really popular red currant drink made out of juice from Tiiu working in Villakoda.

The sleeping time seemed to start quite early for everybody. I guess for waking up next morning to the smells of Mari's porridge and Siiri's coffee. For this breakfast we had to be grateful for other supporters – some oat flakes for porridge and super special apple-zuccini-lemon jam from Liilia, and wonderful black currant jam from Mari's granny.
10.30, according to John's schedule, the Mooste tour started. If usually the guided tours here are all about the manor and the old times – when things were built, for what purpose, and what are they used for nowadays –, then on our walk the culturally interesting objects included: trash wood sticks pile next to old piggery, all-kind-of-trash on many other spots around the manor, The Site (becoming Moksville), allotment gardens, directions to The Café (our lunch place for most of the days), and trash wood sticks pile next to the kindergarden.
While back to MoKS, one could see really serious working mood all over the house – I spotted Noora and Juha first seriously discussing and drawing in the eating hall and then very soon in the basement trying out smth mystical with strings, Justin setting up electronic workshop on the other side of the basement. Italians remained more hidden – only after the nice lunch at Mooste Kohvik I spotted two of them also drawing or writing smth at the eating hall. And even more hidden remained the sweet Japanese girls. Probably they are developing the concept and prework, and also waiting for their volunteers – Tartu art school students – to arrive on Monday to help them out. On the first full-day, naturally, not much else is there to be seen yet but the huge sparkle of excitement in everybody's eyes, and some serious thinking can be concluded, as the questions have started to merge and sound – about the additional supplies everybody have spotted still laying seemingly deserted, without an owner, all around the old agricultural / collective farm surrounding.

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