day 57

day 57

ok today is sunday and i have nothing really to do i'm drying my cloths and the dryer is the worst dryer ever.
i put the cloths in the dryer and on the this is the tird time ii have had to start the dryer luckily i don't have to pay for the dryer.
today i was hopeing to take pictures of schwabisch hall but the dryer takes 20 minutes so i don't have time to go out. so i'm gonna type about my concerns and hopes for vienna.

concerns
1. roommate
2. course load
3. bezerksampt
4. food
5. credits transfering properly
6. getting lost
7. semester trian pass?
8. flight and transport to dorm problems

hopes
1. see lots of stuff in the city
2. trip to italy?
3. eat atleast one vienese wienerschnitzel
4. internet in my dorm
5. take some great pictures

concerns
1 roomate
i am concerned about getting a roommate that is a drinker or partyer or has a girlfriend that he insists on having over at all times. i got lucky with joe as a roommate freshman year

2 course load
the course load right now is 20 credits. 13 of those credits are a "intensive" class that meets for 2 hours a day monday through friday were i learn more german. i have a placment test on the first friday i am in vienna. 3 of the credits are a history class that will meet thursday evenings covering the history of vienna it will be taught in englisch which is good i need these credits to graduate. the final 3 credits are a music class were i will learn about composers and go on trips to concerts. if i need to i wil drop the music class although i will hold out until the withdraw date before withdrawing so i can go to the concerts. i am also considering signing up for a sports class likly a martial art or somthing easy and fun. i am concerned that my days will be to full. and my grades will suffer.

3. bezerksampt
when first arriving in vienna you have 72 hours to register with a district official. (i think its a living place thing) the booklet they gave us says they are not to friendly and not to be offnded which means BE AFRAID. i doubt it will be to big of a problem no matter how much he yells at me i'll still et registared.

4. food
mostly i am concerned about finding places to buy food and finding time to cook it. i'll probably continue my diet of spagehitti and rice and i may find new ways to cook it so i'm not always eating the same thing since i'll have an internet connection.

5. credits transfering properly
it would be a catastrofy if any of my credits didn't transfer over to central properly. i doubt it will be a problem since i'm not taking and uniiversity classes and all the classes i am taking are "central classes" so i assume they are automatically transferable but i'll have to talk to ruth to be sure of it.

6. getting lost
vienna is a big city, like minniapolis. i would hate to get lost. but given my personality i don't get lost easily. ussually when ever i go any place i automatically pick out 2 or 3 points of refference and never loose them. even if i do get lost i am pretty sure i'll find my way back to a place i know but its still a concen.

7. getting a train pass
when i arive i will have to figure out were every thing i need to know about is and then decide if its all in walking distance or if i need to get a train pass (117 euro) thats 1 fifth of what i spent these past two months and 200 of that was on the bike.

8. as i have learned in traveling in groups from before inevitably some one is going to have a problem that wil hold up the rest of the group it will likly be either kim or maggie kim will make a stupid mistake that will slow the rest of us down or maggie will just start complaining or somthing. the rest of us should be good to go (i'm not sure about jackie or emily they are both pretty girly) i know i won't be the cause of the problem thats just the way i am.

hopes
1 see lots of stuff in the city
mom looked up my dorm on google earth and found out that there is somkind of mozart museum thing between my dorm and my classes i would like to check that out and would also like to see what ever else there is in the city (which i should be able to find online with my inroom internet connection)

2. italy trip
the italy trip is looking pretty grim right now i'm thinking of shortening it to 5 days and just going to the places i really want to go see. it will require more research. from what i can tell online if i buy a rail pass i have to use a special train that has diffrent lines and i still have to buy a ticket. it may be cheaper to buy the reginal train tickets. it will require more research.

3. i wanna eat at least one viennesse wienerschnitzel. grant (a former abraod student) told me that they are almost every were in vienna so it shouldn't be to hard to find.

4. INTERNET IN MY ROOM
IN VIENNA I'M GONNA HAVE INTERNET IN MY ROOM SO I'LL BE ABLE TO RESEARCH ALL OF THE STUFF I HAVE BEEN WANTING TO REASEARCH WHEN I THINK OF IT INSTEAD OF HAVING TO RIGHT IT DOWN AND LOOK IT UP IN THE MEDIA CENTER THE NEXT DAY. ITS GONNA BE GREAT!!!!!

5. take some great pictures. i'm not sure if there are any mountains or forests near vienna but i hope to take some good pictures even is they are just of buildings. i prefer to take pictures of landscapes and nature but it all depends on what i have to work with. during some week and i would like to take a train to a city on the foot of the alps and take pictures of them.


well there is every thing i am thinking about for vienna.

i started packing alitlle today and i should have plenty of room in my suitcase we have a weight limit of 45 lbs for the checked luggage so i'm gonna leave my blanket here. (its dying anyway it has half the fuzz it use to have). and maybe mail some stuff home mostly souveniers and paperwork i don't need any more.

well the dryer should be done with the fourth cycle now i'm gonna go restart it again.


i had rice for brunch and looked over my food suply i have enough for an extra meal so i'm gonna have lunner today aswell. spagehitti it should be done after i start the dryer again its on the sixth cycle now i cleaned the lint trap so hopfully it goes faster.



the group didn't go to munich they decided it was to expensive