the actual day 77

day 77
today i walked through the naschmarkt (its saterday so the people selling there old junk were out.) if you want skis, cobat knives, door knobs, or old tools. the naschmarkt is the place to go. i saw tons of stuff i would love to have but there is no way i would be able to use them here or send them home so i didn"t get any thing. i looked at the meat stands for some kinda meat with a bone in it but could find anything in my price range that had a big enough bone. so i went to the grocercy store to get celery and i found that they sell soup bones there so i bought some kinda bones from a pig and celery
i had spagehitti for lunch (early, about 10:30) then started the broth. i filled my pot with water and started boiling it then after stripping some in the meat off the bone i put it in the water allong with some salt and rosemary. i brought it to a boil then started simmering it. i put the lid on and soon found out that it boils with a lid on so i lowerd the temp all the way down and put the lid on. its still boils with the lid on but not as much. i started it at 11:00 it is now 1:40. at 5:00 i plan to check on it and see how dense the broth is if its thick i'll cut the vegitables small if its thin i'll chop the vegitables bigger and make stew instead of soup. i plan to use potatoes, carrots, celery, tiny corn on the cob things, and peas. after i remove the bone i"ll put the veggies in then let tit go for a while then add the other spices (more rosemary, garlic, oregano.) then put in rotinni noodles and boil till the noodles are done. at some point during this i will cook the meat i have in my frying pan then add it to the mix probably with the noodles. then if the broth is thin i will strain it and have stew, and if the broth is thick i'll just have soup.
after i started the broth and was sure it wouldn"t explode or any thing i went back to the naschmarkt and got more of that flat bread. it should be good with the soup. now i"m wasting time waiting for dinner to come.
in other news, i start classes on monday
german intensive 3:00 - 5:30 13 credits
music mondays 5:30 - 8:00 3 credits
history thursdays 5:45 - 8:15 3 credits
vienna seminar wensdays 10:00 - 12:00 1 credit
from what i understand here is how all the classes work...
1 german intensive- i learn german just like i did in germanynot sure what to expect from this class
2 music - i show up and learn about composers and go to concertswe havn't met yet i may end up doing a presentation or some tests or a paper
3 history- i go to class take notes and do a presention and take 2 tests10 minute presentation on somthing we havn't covered in class about austrian history. its gonna be hard to pick a topic since i don't know austrian history.
4 vienna seminarwe've met once so far and it seems that every other wensday we go on an excursion to some place in viennathen we divided into 2 groups and we have to meet twice during the semester and talk about vienna (using guidance questions)i think all i really need to do to pass is to show up and talk some.

i will have nothing to do in the mornings so i might learn how to sleep in. it might even return to the USA time since it will be winter and day time really doesn"t mean anything any more.
my roommate hasn't move in yet, i expect he will do so either tonight or tomarrow.
just ballance my budget. my spending is going down but its still to high. in germany i could live off of 10 euro a week this last week was 80. but allot of that was on stuff i will never need to buy again so i think it wil continue to decline until the italy trip. when it will spike up for a week or to then sudenly decline back to the previous weeks amount.


fritz (my rosemary plant) is doing well i have to find somplace to get a spray bottle so i can keep him from getting moldy. according to people online rosemary plants that live inside often get a certain type of white powdery mold that shouldn"t kill them but will weaken them. and i wanna keep fritz as healthy as possible for the next three months at least.


since i have nothing better to talk about i"ll go over what i know about the italy trip.

1. i don"t have a euro train pass. (i may end up being cheaper with out it.)
2. i'm not gonna spend 10 days in italy that plan was abit extravegent. at most 6 days probably less.
3. i plan on seeing and doing these things
- go to venice (1 day) not sure what to see. i mainly wanna see the streets and say "ahh, venice" maybe se the library in indiana jones and the last crusade
- go to cremona see stradivarious workshop museum (1/2 - 1 day) theres not much else to see here if possible i would like to make it a stop on the way to florence but its way out of the way.
- go to flourence (may or may not spend time in florence) and then go to vinci to see the da vinci museum (1 day) i just wanna see the davinci museum
- go to pompie and see the ruins (1 day) the ruins are open to the public and they say its a full days walk to see it all.
- go to rome see the city (1-2 days) not sure if i actually wanna go here or not since i'm in itally i may as well but theres not much of intrest there
- eat pasta (its italy)
- eat pizza (its italy)
- other stuff i havn't thought of... (obviously i havn't thought of this stuff yet)
4. my break starts on december 22nd?? and go through january 6th giving me 16 days to do stuff of course i will need to work around christmas and new years since public transport will be insane at those times.
5. no idea how to deal with food during trip
6. i think i'll leave right after christmas day.


for some reason i am always extremly tired here. i don't know why. i don't do to much and i go to sleep early and sleep late. i think its culture shock. but of course thats the solution that central tries to explain every thing thats wrong in europe. for example i was walking and i stubed my toe, blame culture shock. my credit card doesn't work ... culture shock. i got run over by a train, culture shock..

not exactly sure when i did this i think it was last thursday. i went to see the gasometers. the gasometers use to be 4 giant gas tanks (about 100 ft around and 100ft tall.) i think they were for natural gas) that would supply all of vienna with gas. but vienna grew and the tanks got old. so they stoped using them, they were about to tear them down when the historical society said nope they are historical buildings can't tear them down. so they built brick walls about each of them and turned them into small cities. i think there are dorms and class rooms in them and so forth. any way i went to see them. i wasn't to impresssed. some of the students at goethe had to read about them several times. so thomas gave me a very detailed description of their history and so forth.

well the broth was not that great. it was thin and it had no flavor. i think i will stick to fake broth. at least until i learn how to do it properly. i made to much i thought i was making 1 serving i apparently made 3 by accident. and since the tupperware i have can only hold 1 serving i'm forced to eat 2 servings. i also learned that boiling peppers is a bad idea. they get mushy and flavorless. the bones only cost 1 euro so i don't think it was a total loss.

yesterday i was typing my last blog and maggy showed up and saidthe strassen bahn was was broken i said which one she said 43. thats the one from the U-bahn to the office it goes about 3-5 blocks from here to there. then she complained that she had to walk and i said its not that far and she said but its cold out and i said its well above freezing then she just glared at me. at that moment i realized somthing about most of humanity myself included people love to complain (seriously some people won't be happy till you beat them with a stick) but they love their egos more. so when the two come in conflict the ego will ussualy win. in this case maggi complained about the walk but it would dammage her ego to say the walk was to far for her to complete easily. so when the two came in conflict she jumped to complaining about the cold but when those two come in conflict it wasn't resolved she just got angry.
on the walk to the u-bahn .(the strassen bahn was not going). i was walking past a lady with children and she said excuse me do you know were i could get a job cleaning? (in german) i paused because i thought i saw a putzerie (literly cleanery) around the corner. then i realized she was one of the homless croations that always begs for money inthe train station and her citizen ship probably wasn't legal. so she was asking to clean my house for non goverement approved pay. so i said i'm sorry, i don't know. then she got loud and asked if i had somthing to eat and i said no then she told me to give her a euro i just walked away. i don't have the resources, time, or ability to help the homless especially here in austria.


well thats all for today.