day 64

day 64

today i woke up and tried to decide what to do. i decided to go to down town and see that so i took U-bahn 1 across the donau and i saw abunch of different flags are aranged in a circle right as the doors were closing i realized it must be the UN i took the train to the end of the line so i could see the rest of the city and i turned around and went back to see the UN there was a visitor center but it looked closed i'll have to see what the opening times are for it when i get online tomarrow. i took several pictures the wind was blowing so i got a good picture of the flag. then i took the train back to karls platz and got a coke and a giant cheese stick. coke is expensive here 1.80 euro per bottle ($2.43) for 1/2 liter. but i didn't buy it for the coke i bought it for the bottle. coke bottles in europe are extremly durible. probably 3x thicker plastic than the bottles at home. i can use it for water and it will never break or get ugly. now i'm back in my temp room typing this.

tomarrow i move to the haus burgenland II dorm at 2:00 and probably meet my new roommate. hopfully we are more talkative than my previous roommate. a guy came about 20 minutes ago and took the tv and lamps out of my room. i think they were preparing for the students coming tomarrow. i worked out my list of goals for the rest of this semester since i having nothing better to talk about i guess i'll just post them.

- learn moonlight sonata (the central office has a piano)
- eat a good wienerschnitzel
- see the city
- go to stradavarious workshop
- go to italy
- learn about violin making online
- learn somthing else on line (could/should i sign up for a online class??)
- pass all my classes
- do well in the history class
- go to all the concerts for the music class
- learn to cook gooder
- learn about a profesional trade/skill (ie electrician, carpenter, plumber, ect...)
- take lots of good pictures
- go walking alot
- spend no more than 5000 euro (i'm close to 1000 now so it shouldn't be a problem)
- learn to speak good german
- don't get sick

yesterday i went walking and found a place were motzart once stayed there was a big statue of him (he looked like a pompus jerk)

on the tour of the "ring" on friday we walked past an anti war protest. it was kinda scary although i knew nothing would have happened i knew i looked like an american and if somthing happened it would happen to me or the people around me. also saw a anti CO2 protest people were walking around in giant blue ball costumes that were supose to look like the CO2 molucule but since it was all blue i couldn't tell if it was CO2 or H2O or some other oxygen based molicule. also saw those people who dress up like statues and move when you put money in the box at there feet. they wern't very good. i liked the once in new orleans better. the people here did a lousy job with the makup and moved far to often. the one mozart guy wouldn't stop moving he was having a great time trying to get every ones attention. we also saw strause and chalie chaplin. (by far my favorite was a vampire in new orleans we couldn't tell if he was real or not his eyes didn't even move)

in germany small towns were judged by how big the church in the center was. vienna has atleast 20 churches all of which are gigger and more beutiful than any church i saw in germany (with the exception of st. pauls church in munich that is in the same class as all the churches here)