day 103

day 103


ok, it is actually morning here and nothing has happened yet so i'll type about the past few days. i got a roommate on monday. his name is Mateise ("MATT-tae-iss") he comes from hamburg germany. he says the phrase "alles clar" (every thing is clear) alot i translate it literaly which throughs me for a loop but i think it actually means "alright". some times his german is a bit hard for me to understand but i think i'm starting to understand better.

on monday i had music class we went over beethoven. he wrote a lot fewer symphonies and operas than mozart and hayden but he lived alot longer to. (also his symphies are alot more intresting) we listened to afew of his symphonies (i love #6 movment 4) and also some of his smaller works including a string quartet that sounded allot like jazz (another one of my favorites)
then i came home and went to sleep

my roommate stays up latter than i do, but since all my classes are in the evening i should try to move myy sleep schedual back (its hard to do i'm a morning person)

on tuesday i went to the office in the morning and practiced moonllight sonata for a while. i have everything but the last measure of the first page down. since i stole the first page offline and couldn't find the second page i should really go out and buy the whole work but that would cost money. i think the piece gets harder as you go on. i thought that making the three things move at once was hard at first but then everything started to space out more. i have incredably long fingures and the piece is just short of how far i can reach with my pinky. i think beethoven wrote it to keep people with small hands from playing it. his hands must have been about as big as mine. then after that the left hand starts to move more to.

then i made lunch and went to class and came home and slept.

wensday i woke up and went to the central office thinking we miight have a vienna seminar discusion. but marie was busy with the directors in an all day meetin so i don't think we had vienna seminar. next week i think we are going to the jewish museum. then i made lunch and went to class and came back here and made dinner.


and thats how my week has gone so far..

at the university in the big court yard they are setting up the christmas market. stand after stand we i assume they will sell things. also in the front there are train rides for children. i actually think it starts today. or monday.

on monday we are having a meeting to organize the thanksgiving dinner that we are gonna have on thanksgiving. i assume we are basically gonna sign up for what ever it is we all wanna make. i'm gonna go for mashed potatoes because its quick easy and delicious. i assume every one else will have an idea of what they wnna do. if i do get mashed potatoes i'm gonna have to buy a bigger pot that i have its gonna hvae to serve about 20 people. (gonna need a big pot)

swe tour.. i got an email from mr. lutch saying swe tour is going to boston/newyork at the end of the school year (after graduation) the total cost would be $200 for the trip and $100 spending money. not sure i wanna go after all i won't be a student anymore and i don't have any real friends in swe any way. however i think it would be a good learning experience for me to visit the east coast. it sounds like the tour is mostly free time with optional trips so i think i could very well explore on my own if i wanted to.

the italy trip is starting to annoy me. in order to see how much tickets cost you need to go to the buy tickets page but if you are coming it to austria from italy then i wont let you buy tickets online because austria hates italians. i found a flat rate thing for 29 euro from vienna to venice but i don't think that works with my half off train card.
and further more the cities i wanna visit in italy are small and i'mnot sure trains even go to then (cremona, vinci, pompie) all of which requires more research.

in order to graduate i thought i needed just to fill the core requirments but apparently there was another requirment called core focus. luckily i already had 2 credits in it thanks to the music groups i was in and the music class im in now counts aswell. so when i get back i have to get 1 credit of music groups. so i'm gonna join swe and orchestra again.

also, the registar has forgoten to change my program evaluation online i am currently taking a history course and a music course but it doesn't show up so i have to try to find out the course numbers (which i think are a big secret) again and then send threatening emails.

housing is still not going so great i thik i'm just gonna request the room and see what happens.

i have a german placement/ requirment test on the 19th it shouldnt be a problem. just need to go over everything we have learned.

i got my blue print reading book in the mail today. so i plan to learn how to read blueprints (at least alittle) with my free time in vienna.

had history class today basically he talks about what ever he wants and follows the notes he gives us slightly. he said everything on the test is in the notes so i'm gonna read over those somtime to.

practiced moonlight sonata tonight. i think the directors from all the abroad programs came here to meet and talk about stuff, they were having meeting all week in the piano room so i have not had much of a chance to practice. i think they are finaly done and gone. i have the entire first page of moonlight sonata memorized (about 12 measures) in my head the problem is its not memorized in my fingures yet. so i have to make that work. also i have to get a copy of moonlight sonata so i can continue learning. i have been working off of a pictures of the first page i found online. don't think i will be able to find a second.

after practice (about 9:00 i walked out side and looked at the strassenbahn arival LCD screen thiing and saw i would have to wait 9 minutes. walking to the u-bahn takes roughly 4-5 minutes so i started walking. about half way i thought its nice out i'll walk all the way. so i started walking. i was pretty close, walking past the sex shops that line the u6 line and i looked ahead of me and i saw one lady wearing a fur coat and dress cloths was standing infront of a shop (i was walking past it and the sign of the shop was paralell to me to i didn't see what it was.) she looked perfectly content just to stand there. i thought "ok this is the bad part of town she is either lost or a hooker. but hookers don't dress that nice..." as soon as i got to that thought (by this time she was with in arms reach of me) she steped forward and said grössgott (hello). at that point i thought "yep shes a hooker" and continued walking. with in 10 -15 feet of that i looked to my right and saw a girl on a cell phone standing between 2 parked cars (not facing me) i thought (hmm.. shes not wearing any pants) as soon as i walked by her she turned around and said (in an extremly cheerful voice) "hallo" (not one to reject a cheerful hello) i looked at her and smiled and said hallo, also in a cheerful voice. and continued walking on my way. 2 prostitutes in under 15 feet that gotta be a record of some sort...

today we got no homework. so i have tomarrow mostly free. i plan to research the italy trip more. (i think i know how much most of its gonna cost and how to research more now)

my coriander plant is entirly dead. its now rotting it its pot (i should really throw it out)