On Monday I started my German class! We've been learning a lot. We learned how to greet each other and introduce ourselves. Austrian's often say Gruß (pronounced groose like loose) Gott! Which means Good Day. Today we learned the numbers and I was able to use my german to ask where the U4 is! Then in the afternoon we had our first OK Program things where they explained the Buddy Network Trips and we finally got our ID cards. On Mondays they always host parties at this place called Ride Club which is up the U6 with cheap drink specials for Exchange students. It was a lot of fun to dance with my new friends and meet even more new people!
Today after German I got some street noodles for lunch (similar to lomein and so delicious). Then Elizabeth, John, and I met the rest of our groups at Schönbrunn Palace to do a tour. It was a beautiful day for it! After waiting a while to get in, we toured the rooms of the Palace. It reminded me a lot of the Real Palace of Madrid that I saw this summer and the Palace of Versailles in France. Marie Antoinette was actually the daughter of the queen who decorated the palace here in Austria. Then we toured the huge gardens and climbed to the top to see the view and then get ice cream sundaes and water. Mine was a berry yogurt flavor that was deliciously refreshing.
The gardens had flowers that resembled the Austrian flag!
My new friends (Sarika, Louise, Elizabeth, John, Jeff, Alex, and Cori) at the top of the gardens with the Palace in the background.
The view from the top of the palace with Vienna in the background.
I am finally beginning to really settle in here. I've made a lot of new friends that I really like and my room is all set up. Vienna is a wonderful city to live in, I've always been a city girl and I'm really enjoying it. The u-bahn is very easy to use here and I like having so many things at my disposal. Vienna has so many nuances that make it special like all of the street food and I can't wait to experience more of them.
One of the views of my dorm and the street food kiosks outside of my u-bahn station.
Well, I need to be off to bed so I don't sleep through my alarm for German class tomorrow! Tschüss! (pronounced chooss, which means goodbye!)
just teared up reading this(?)!! I'm glad your settling in and learning all kinds of fun german things!! I semi-stalked who your new friends were on fbook to see if they were from the same school my friends were from, and I was very sentimental to see you at schonnbrunn with bentley people because that's what I did like the second day I got there and it made me really miss everything. wahhh! But I expect to hear a lot more about ride club and street noodles!!!
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