day 73

day 73
since classes don't start till next monday my weekdays have been incredably boreing. today i went online and found the best wiener schnitzel in vienna. its at a resturant in city center. i went there to check i out (its tucked away on a side street in an alley way) the schnitzel costs 12.50 euro. i plan to eat dinner there tomarrow. tomarrow i also plan to go on a tour of the UN so tomarrow shouldn't be to boreing.
i still don't have a roommate. i'm begining to question if he actually exists.
two days ago i went to the naschmarkt and got chicken boulioun (i have been searching for the past week to find it in grocery stores) it was really expensive (4.50 euro) but it will last 1-2 months so i think it is worth it. especially since it effectivly doubles the kinds of food i can make (flavor i mean).
on the way out of the naschmarkt i saw a stand that sold all kinds of stuff but what caught my eye was a 1.25" round 1.5" think piece of bread that cost only .65 euro. the price said "0.65 st." (st. is short for "stuck" which is german for piece) so i wasn't sure if it ment 65 cents for a piece of it or 65 cents for the whole thing so i decided it was a good thing to find out so i asked for 1 piece and he gave me the whole thing. i was happy. on the way home i thought if i had a bread knife i could cut it and turn it into 2 large pizza bread things. so i went out a bought a bread knife. of course when i tryied to cook it there was no shelf in the oven so i set it on the bottom of course it burned the bottom of the bread but over all it was a good first attempt. i plan to have pizza like that every so often.
since i'm on the topic of food i'll go more into my diet in vienna. it has changed allot form my diet in germany when i first got here i went to the grocery store and bought a lot of rice and rotini noodles and spagehitti and potatoes. allong with spices and oil , green peppers, carrots, butter eggs and othere usfull ingrediants. now my diet consists of about 8 different menus each of which i can change to taste almost entirely different. stirfry spagehitti stuffed pepper rice double baked potatoes mexican rice tuna noodle cassoroll stew and pizza bread.
i am starting to research meat. if i buy a kilo or two of beef i can cut it up and freeze it and then use it in some of the meals somtimes. as long as i don"t eat it straight the cost should not add up to badly.
tomarrow marks 100 days till i come home.
after living in 3 different dorms over the past 3 months i think it must be weird to move into an appartment by yourself. first of all your used to living in a single room with all your valubles and then use a comunal kitchen. but when you get an appartment you have 3-5 rooms all of which belong to you. it must bee weirrd to space your stuff out so much.
found a money exchange place by the main tourist attraction (st. stephans cathedral) and the exchange rate was 1.49 dallars on the euro i laughed . the actual exchange rate is 1.35 dollars to the euro. i have $60 from gramma that i still have to exchange it. if i exchange it there i would get 40 euro any were else i would get 44 euro. i plan to use that money for tomarows excursion, thank you gramma.
i don't think i explained my room yet so here it is. everything is like an ikea add its all mapple venneer and blue fermika. i have a refridgerator in the room. (very happy) i have a closet that has a lock on it (use full for keeping things safe (cheaper than buying a lock box at a bank)). the bathroom in in working order. the toilet is quite intresting, instead of the drain being in the center it is way up front and there is a flat spot that has a small pool of water on it in the center. i don't like it it often takes more than one flush to get the job done and somtimes no amount of flushing will help you have to use the toilet brush to help. the kitchen is communal. at the door way there are 1'x1.5' lockers (about 2' deep) were we can keep our cooking supplies. (i found that i could use a plastic crate thing to keep all mmy stuff organized and when i want to cook all my stuff can come out on the counter in one trip. it works well) the kitchen is actuall 2 kitchens mirroring each other to either side of the door. there are electric stoves (i actually like these, they are the glass top ones that light up when you turn the burners on and they heat up pretty quick.) and a sink and a public fridge (same size as our room fridges) then two tables also mirroring eachother on either side of the room. the outside wall is mostly a giant window. unfortunatly unlike the window at goethe. there is a street out side the window so we can't just through all out biodegratable stuff out the window. which is a shame because that was fun. (at goethe we had a 20 ft. strip of weeds and dirt between our building and a prison wall. we would through vegitable parts and egg shells and water and othere cooking garbage out the window. and somtimes when we had somthing dense enough we would through it onto the prison roof. but if i did that here i would get yelled at.)
i wanna get a fish for the room it would amuse me and add some color to the shelf over the fridge. but i can't find a pet store any were i'm not even sure if fish are a common pet in austria or not. also considering a plant but i would have to keep it in the window which will get cold soon so i don't know of any plants that can with stand the cold or be an indoor plant with out sunlight. maybe a rose mary plant i could use it with mashed potatoes and it if dies i can dry the leaves for later use...
city life is expensive there is nothing to do but shop and spend money. of the 400 euro i started with half of it is gone, of course most of that goes to the monthly train ticket and the room deposite (total 100 euro) then i have the groceries and cooking supplies. i think the only money i really wasted was on candy and bakery goods and pizza at the pizza place at schotentor.
a guy came to look t at the ceiling over my window today. he asked "wie lange war es wie das?" (how long was it like that?) i ment to say "since i got here" (seit ich heir kamm) but i havn't thought in german for nearly a week so i said "von wann ich heir gekommt" (from when I here comed) he looked at me funny then said thanks and left the room. looking back on it, it was kinda funny.