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)
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
day 63??
day 63
ok yesterday i woke up and rode the train systems to school for oreintation.i took U-bahn 1 to karls platz then u-bahn 2 to scholentor then street cars to the school. three days costs 13.60 euro but i can stay on the train all day if i like. i think 50 euro for a month is well worth it the walk is far to long. also since it was my first time using the train system somthing strange was pretty much garentied to happen. i got on to the second U-Bahn and this guy (who looked like charles manson) was sitting with terable posture in the seat on the other side of the train from me behind me. at one point he just kinda yelled somthing in comprehensible at nobody. then the first stop came allong. the people got off and he doors shut and we were just about to leave when the guy sprang up and upened the door then he leaned up against one side and put his foot on the door so it couldn't close. every one on the train looked at him with distaste. then some othere guy said "in oder aus" (in or out) then pushed the guy out of the door. (two other men stood up to help the pusher if nessissary (if i were a citizen i would have helped the pusher too)) the door caught his arm i think then he forced the door open got his arm out then tried to kick the guy through the open door. the kick fell short by about a foot. then the door closed and the train started to move. at this point the crazy guy started to walk away but half way through turning around decided that he had to fight the pushed some more so he chased the train grabed the handle and the door opened about 2 inches before snapping shut again then the guy chased the train making obseen gestures at the pusher aparently ablivious to the other two men who stood up when the guy pushed him. according to marrie the stop that he "got off" at was well known for having homless and crack addicts sleep there during the night.
after the train insident every thing else went smoothly i found the office two hours early and decided to wait since i had nothing better to do. it was raining so i found a archway to hide in and i decided to see if there was WiFi at the campus i found one but the signal was weak so it took awhile to get on and the url bar couldn't be used to go to websites i had to search every thing through google. so i couldn't post my blog yesterday. but i did get an email off to mom and i checked my mail.
then andrea walked buy and asked if i knew were to go. of course i did. it was half an hour early but we decided to try the door bell any way. then a lady came up and pushed a button that unlocked the door. so we got in. later ruth came by and we got into the office.
the office consists of a security door going into a hallway immediatly on the left is a small kitchen (with washing machine) on the right in a computer room (3 computers(none of which allow google talk)) then about 6 feet past those doors are the doors to the office (right) and the bathroom (left) then after that is the mail area (we each get a document tray with our name on it) then the halway goes through a door way into a lounge if you keep walking you will go into the class room which has a baby grand piano in it.
the lounge is the most intresting room. it has a tv with VCR and couches and chairs behind all of that is a big table on which was all the stuff left behind from last year. i managed to get a spagehitti pan (a pan with a lid with straining holes in it) 2 bowls a big plastic container, a tennis ball, a mug, chop sticks and taco mix.
also before leving schwabish hall thomas had bought a water boiler thing its basically a heating coil attached to a AC cord that you put in water and plug in and the watter eventually boils he didn't want it any more so he gave it to me.
any way the pot and bowls i got wern't cleaned so there were some food particles still in place so last night i used the boiler coil inthe pot and got it near boiling (it took more than an hour) and used the hot watter to get most of the stuff off.
any way after we all got the stuff we wanted we started orientation were we listened to ruth tell us the same things again. and eventually we went to lunch with marrie at the university "mensa" (its like a cafeteria but its cheaper) i had wiener schnitzel it cost 4.20 euro and it wasn't great or terrable . during lunch i looked out the window (the mensa was on the top floor of the main university building) and saw a buetiful church it was breath taking.
then we took a tour of the university buildings i don't have to go to. and then we took a guided tour of the city. (my feet hurt at the end of the day) then we went back to the office and had a hour to do what ever i got online and checked my email. then we went to dinner in a resurant on campus (it was nice, they had there own resturant cat, that we took turns passing around) (glad i didn't have to pay for it though) then we went back to the office to grab our stuff and i went back to my temp dorm. and tried to clean my pot and bowls.
this morning i woke up and said every things gonna be closed on sunday i have to get stuff to eat. so i went out with a list and the intention of buying stuff. then i figured out that i wasn't even sure if i had a kitchen in my temp dorm. so i went back and got the direction from the dorm i'm gonna be living in to the office and worked them backwards to find out were it was and went there. i found it then i walked around it in a outward spiral and found a grocery store (before i left i couldn't find a kitchen so i decided to get only food that was ready to eat cereal and pretzels. also i got sponges and soap so i can clean tonight. then i took the train to the office area then came back to the dorm to drop of my stuff and charge the laptop battery so i can go to the campus and see if i can get on that wifi again.
its strange how kim can get lost so easily ruth gave us directions to the campus that were nearly perfectly consice but kim was still a 1/2 hour late infact i think she tries to be late and blames it on being lost (personally i would admit to being late because of somthing crazy that to being lost) i am amazed how little information most of these people take in about the city during the tour. i didn't hear or understand most of the tour but i was astute enought to know which buildings we were in and what they look like and that we didn't take any turns to get to them. but kim has a nack for asking questions that are obvious and not noticing things.
monday i move to my dorm at 2:00 and on tuesday i have a meeting with ruth about my courses i'm gonna see it i can just go on the concert trips for the music ourse with out taking the music course or maybe take it for audit (i don't wanna have to work to hard in it)
there is so much more to talk about but i either cant remember or am to tired to type about it i'm gonna go to the campus now since my batery is chraged an try to post this and yesterdays and maybe talk to mom and dad.
ok yesterday i woke up and rode the train systems to school for oreintation.i took U-bahn 1 to karls platz then u-bahn 2 to scholentor then street cars to the school. three days costs 13.60 euro but i can stay on the train all day if i like. i think 50 euro for a month is well worth it the walk is far to long. also since it was my first time using the train system somthing strange was pretty much garentied to happen. i got on to the second U-Bahn and this guy (who looked like charles manson) was sitting with terable posture in the seat on the other side of the train from me behind me. at one point he just kinda yelled somthing in comprehensible at nobody. then the first stop came allong. the people got off and he doors shut and we were just about to leave when the guy sprang up and upened the door then he leaned up against one side and put his foot on the door so it couldn't close. every one on the train looked at him with distaste. then some othere guy said "in oder aus" (in or out) then pushed the guy out of the door. (two other men stood up to help the pusher if nessissary (if i were a citizen i would have helped the pusher too)) the door caught his arm i think then he forced the door open got his arm out then tried to kick the guy through the open door. the kick fell short by about a foot. then the door closed and the train started to move. at this point the crazy guy started to walk away but half way through turning around decided that he had to fight the pushed some more so he chased the train grabed the handle and the door opened about 2 inches before snapping shut again then the guy chased the train making obseen gestures at the pusher aparently ablivious to the other two men who stood up when the guy pushed him. according to marrie the stop that he "got off" at was well known for having homless and crack addicts sleep there during the night.
after the train insident every thing else went smoothly i found the office two hours early and decided to wait since i had nothing better to do. it was raining so i found a archway to hide in and i decided to see if there was WiFi at the campus i found one but the signal was weak so it took awhile to get on and the url bar couldn't be used to go to websites i had to search every thing through google. so i couldn't post my blog yesterday. but i did get an email off to mom and i checked my mail.
then andrea walked buy and asked if i knew were to go. of course i did. it was half an hour early but we decided to try the door bell any way. then a lady came up and pushed a button that unlocked the door. so we got in. later ruth came by and we got into the office.
the office consists of a security door going into a hallway immediatly on the left is a small kitchen (with washing machine) on the right in a computer room (3 computers(none of which allow google talk)) then about 6 feet past those doors are the doors to the office (right) and the bathroom (left) then after that is the mail area (we each get a document tray with our name on it) then the halway goes through a door way into a lounge if you keep walking you will go into the class room which has a baby grand piano in it.
the lounge is the most intresting room. it has a tv with VCR and couches and chairs behind all of that is a big table on which was all the stuff left behind from last year. i managed to get a spagehitti pan (a pan with a lid with straining holes in it) 2 bowls a big plastic container, a tennis ball, a mug, chop sticks and taco mix.
also before leving schwabish hall thomas had bought a water boiler thing its basically a heating coil attached to a AC cord that you put in water and plug in and the watter eventually boils he didn't want it any more so he gave it to me.
any way the pot and bowls i got wern't cleaned so there were some food particles still in place so last night i used the boiler coil inthe pot and got it near boiling (it took more than an hour) and used the hot watter to get most of the stuff off.
any way after we all got the stuff we wanted we started orientation were we listened to ruth tell us the same things again. and eventually we went to lunch with marrie at the university "mensa" (its like a cafeteria but its cheaper) i had wiener schnitzel it cost 4.20 euro and it wasn't great or terrable . during lunch i looked out the window (the mensa was on the top floor of the main university building) and saw a buetiful church it was breath taking.
then we took a tour of the university buildings i don't have to go to. and then we took a guided tour of the city. (my feet hurt at the end of the day) then we went back to the office and had a hour to do what ever i got online and checked my email. then we went to dinner in a resurant on campus (it was nice, they had there own resturant cat, that we took turns passing around) (glad i didn't have to pay for it though) then we went back to the office to grab our stuff and i went back to my temp dorm. and tried to clean my pot and bowls.
this morning i woke up and said every things gonna be closed on sunday i have to get stuff to eat. so i went out with a list and the intention of buying stuff. then i figured out that i wasn't even sure if i had a kitchen in my temp dorm. so i went back and got the direction from the dorm i'm gonna be living in to the office and worked them backwards to find out were it was and went there. i found it then i walked around it in a outward spiral and found a grocery store (before i left i couldn't find a kitchen so i decided to get only food that was ready to eat cereal and pretzels. also i got sponges and soap so i can clean tonight. then i took the train to the office area then came back to the dorm to drop of my stuff and charge the laptop battery so i can go to the campus and see if i can get on that wifi again.
its strange how kim can get lost so easily ruth gave us directions to the campus that were nearly perfectly consice but kim was still a 1/2 hour late infact i think she tries to be late and blames it on being lost (personally i would admit to being late because of somthing crazy that to being lost) i am amazed how little information most of these people take in about the city during the tour. i didn't hear or understand most of the tour but i was astute enought to know which buildings we were in and what they look like and that we didn't take any turns to get to them. but kim has a nack for asking questions that are obvious and not noticing things.
monday i move to my dorm at 2:00 and on tuesday i have a meeting with ruth about my courses i'm gonna see it i can just go on the concert trips for the music ourse with out taking the music course or maybe take it for audit (i don't wanna have to work to hard in it)
there is so much more to talk about but i either cant remember or am to tired to type about it i'm gonna go to the campus now since my batery is chraged an try to post this and yesterdays and maybe talk to mom and dad.
day 61
day 61
well today was the big day i finnaly got to vienna. its 6:30 and i am tired. the idiots decided to "finish off" all the beer they had left (plus some they bought) so up till 1:00 am thomas was yelling about how he loves space blankets and how loud they are crincling one as loudly as he could. this morning i slamed my fair share of doors at 6:00 am. i got the final packing done and had nothing to do for a while so i just sat in my room. eventually one of the office people came by and said that the 50 euro deposite would cover the oven i was thankfull i was expecting atleast 100 euro. i gave him my key and waited for a van to pick us up to take the luggage to the buss station. then ruth came bye and said that the van would be full so some of us would have to walk our luggage there so i did, i got there first. the bus was a charter bus. and it took alittle more than 2 hours to get to nurnberg then we had a two hour wait till the plane boarded. we boarded and flew to vienna. when we arived thomas deciided to point out every thing he recognized showing how much better he was than all of us. some times i find him help full and othere times i just wanna punch him in the face and say shut up and let me learn on my own!.
found out yesterday at the meeting that hausburgenland II doesn't open till oct 1rst so i have to stay in kirchschlagerhiem. luckily adam pretty much signed out all of our keys there were 6 of us and we got 4 keys 2 rooms are doubles. and also luckily he is a greedy bastard so he took a single leaving a single for me since i'm the only other guy. on the other had the internet doesn't connect to the internet just the local network. since i'm only gonna be here for 3 days i'm not gonna complain i may have access at the office tomarrow. who knows.
i text messaged dad that i was here and now i'm gonna take a nap then figure out were i am then explore the city tomarrow.
there is so much more to type but right now i'm tired so
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ok its tomarrwo morning now (day 62?) ok um....
ok more detail. at the meeting we got maps and a schedual of what we are gonna do for the next week. i have a meeting at the central office at 9:30am and its raining pretty hard so i'm gonna take the train instead of walking like i planed. (gotta find an umbrella). on the bus ride to the airport ruth asked me if it would be ok to have the history course in german since every one else wans the german credits. i said sure i'll probably undestand more than most of the class anyway.
then we checked our luggage (no problems) then i went to the terminal and bought some candy and ate it while i waited (the cashier asked for my boarding pass??) we had to go through the gate then they put us on a bus and drove us to the plane (i was surprised) take was fun the acceleration was faster than any other take off i've ever been on i had apple juice and a chicken sandwich. landing was fun the plane stayed about 20 ft off the runway then sudenly droped onto it. then a bus took us to the terminal and we pcked up our luggage. central hired two of those airport vans and they brought us to the dorms. i got a single hotel room (i love it!!) it has my own shower and every thing. of course i'm only here till monday then they will move me to the haus burgenland II with a german/austrian roommate.
found out that i'm not eligable for a student semester card (train ticket) because i'm not enrolled at the vienna university. so i'll have to buy monthly cards which is alot more. i'm gonna go with a 3 day card at first then try to explore the city more and see if i actualy need the cards or not (it may be cheaper to walk and buy daily cards on rainy days)
there is an internet connection here but it only goes to the local network not the internet. i would complain but i'll only bee here 4 days.
thats all i can remember for now. i have to figure out how to get to my meeting now.
well today was the big day i finnaly got to vienna. its 6:30 and i am tired. the idiots decided to "finish off" all the beer they had left (plus some they bought) so up till 1:00 am thomas was yelling about how he loves space blankets and how loud they are crincling one as loudly as he could. this morning i slamed my fair share of doors at 6:00 am. i got the final packing done and had nothing to do for a while so i just sat in my room. eventually one of the office people came by and said that the 50 euro deposite would cover the oven i was thankfull i was expecting atleast 100 euro. i gave him my key and waited for a van to pick us up to take the luggage to the buss station. then ruth came bye and said that the van would be full so some of us would have to walk our luggage there so i did, i got there first. the bus was a charter bus. and it took alittle more than 2 hours to get to nurnberg then we had a two hour wait till the plane boarded. we boarded and flew to vienna. when we arived thomas deciided to point out every thing he recognized showing how much better he was than all of us. some times i find him help full and othere times i just wanna punch him in the face and say shut up and let me learn on my own!.
found out yesterday at the meeting that hausburgenland II doesn't open till oct 1rst so i have to stay in kirchschlagerhiem. luckily adam pretty much signed out all of our keys there were 6 of us and we got 4 keys 2 rooms are doubles. and also luckily he is a greedy bastard so he took a single leaving a single for me since i'm the only other guy. on the other had the internet doesn't connect to the internet just the local network. since i'm only gonna be here for 3 days i'm not gonna complain i may have access at the office tomarrow. who knows.
i text messaged dad that i was here and now i'm gonna take a nap then figure out were i am then explore the city tomarrow.
there is so much more to type but right now i'm tired so
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ok its tomarrwo morning now (day 62?) ok um....
ok more detail. at the meeting we got maps and a schedual of what we are gonna do for the next week. i have a meeting at the central office at 9:30am and its raining pretty hard so i'm gonna take the train instead of walking like i planed. (gotta find an umbrella). on the bus ride to the airport ruth asked me if it would be ok to have the history course in german since every one else wans the german credits. i said sure i'll probably undestand more than most of the class anyway.
then we checked our luggage (no problems) then i went to the terminal and bought some candy and ate it while i waited (the cashier asked for my boarding pass??) we had to go through the gate then they put us on a bus and drove us to the plane (i was surprised) take was fun the acceleration was faster than any other take off i've ever been on i had apple juice and a chicken sandwich. landing was fun the plane stayed about 20 ft off the runway then sudenly droped onto it. then a bus took us to the terminal and we pcked up our luggage. central hired two of those airport vans and they brought us to the dorms. i got a single hotel room (i love it!!) it has my own shower and every thing. of course i'm only here till monday then they will move me to the haus burgenland II with a german/austrian roommate.
found out that i'm not eligable for a student semester card (train ticket) because i'm not enrolled at the vienna university. so i'll have to buy monthly cards which is alot more. i'm gonna go with a 3 day card at first then try to explore the city more and see if i actualy need the cards or not (it may be cheaper to walk and buy daily cards on rainy days)
there is an internet connection here but it only goes to the local network not the internet. i would complain but i'll only bee here 4 days.
thats all i can remember for now. i have to figure out how to get to my meeting now.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
day 59
day 59
today was the last day of class. i woke up and went to breakfast and did the normal routine then went to class and did my homework and defraged my computer. then the teacher walked in and said your always early i said yeah she asked if i was a morning person i said most of the time yeah then she left and i worked on the homework some more then she started writing the answers on the board and pawel (the russian guy) came in carrying allot of plastic bags the frau buchholz asked what they were and he said gifts so every one in the class got a paper bag from pwel with a thing from russia in it. i got a hat that says russia on it and a keychain. other people got those figurins that open up and have another figurene inside and that one opens up and there is another ( i forget the name but they were impresive) and most fo the guys got a small bottle of vodka one girl got a toy that has two bears with movable arms and if you swing a ball attached to 3 strings on bottom the bears lift and drop there arms. in class we disscussed german history mostly after WWII i knew most of it already but i wasn't about to explain it to a german who had lived through it and a russian so i just sat back and listened to every one elses perspective. at the end we got pictures of the class and every one had to sign every one elses and some people had to get every ones emil address and it got very uncomfortable very fast. at the end we had some kind of german fruit cake ( i think it was plume) i thought it tasted awfull but i remembered a story dad told me about norman schwartzkopf when he was a child.
the young normand schwarzkopfs father was a diplomat and he took his son with him to some country. they were haveing a ceromony or dinner or somthing and they were gonna eat some kind of strange food. the father told the son "this is a delacasey and an honor to these people. you are going to eat all of it and your going to like it." so i ate the whole thing with a smile.
then things got more emotional so i slipped out of the room (which i am very good at) and went to lunch after lunch i went online and talked to mom and dad then i came back here with all my stuff then went to the bike shop to sell my bike.
it took me three tries to walk in the door of the bike shop i wasn't sure how to explain it in german and was afraid they may misunderstand. eventually i walked in with the bike and said "halo ich habe diese rad im august gekauft heir und mochte es zuruck verkaufen" (hello i baught this bike in august and would like to sell it back (i messed up some of the grammar on purpose)) then he got me the manager and he spoke to fast i thought i heard him say no so i asked if he knew were i could sell it then he asked if i spoke english (i was relieved) eventualy he asked how much i would want for it i said 100 he imediatly said 50 i said ok. walking home i realized he wanted to hagle. but having already explained that i needed to get rid of it i was at a disavantage so if i did hagle i probably would have gotten no more than 60 out of it.
i came home and made supper stir fry. i started by cooking the rice the sauteing the veggies (corn peases and red peppers (canned) with garlic powder and cyan pepper) then i adde the rice and mixed it well. i had had a great idea two days before at breakfast (i always eat brezel rolls with honey) what if i used honey in the stirfry it would give it a sweeter taste. so i added honey to the rice vegie mixture then i added an egg and some more garlic powder and cayan pepper. the honey made a huge diference along with the soysauce it was both sweet and sauwer at the same time. i was very pleased
then i sat with the group before there dinner and they needed thing chopped very fast so me and james both said give me a knife so i chopped peppers and i should have chopped a zukini to but i never got one (some one else got to it first) then thomas aske dme to saute the veggie which i did (i like suaeteing) and they started watching a stupid movie so when the viggies were done i started watching to. my plan was to watch the movie with them while they ate but then 3 people from downstairs came up (one of them being adam the loud obnoxiuous person who i can't stand to be in the same room with) on top of that there were a limmited number of places at the table so i went back into my room. on the way there thomas said phill eat with us you did your fair share of work. i said no thanks i'm not a big fan of salad. and went back in my room and played a racing game i download afew weeks ago.
tomarrow i have to pack but before that i'm thinking of going to a tower that andrea told me about to get a better look at the surounding area.
i also have a meeting with ruth and the central people at 4:00 then thursday i leave for vienna i probably won't get on on thursday but i'll post as soon as possible. tomarrow should be a full day.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
day 58
went to the art exhibit today for class it was an edward munch exhibit the first picture is his most famous for the painting "the scream" but that wasn't on display because it was stolen and ruined the next most famous one is the vampire which i did see.
most of his work looks like a kid with a carayon drew them but he could draw when he wanted to . it just seems that he didn't try..
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
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
day 56
day 56
since my time in germany is coming to a close (5 days left) i feel it only fiting to write an overview of my experiences here.
flew in
transfered through amsterdam
got confused, eventually figured out how trains work
cried for the fist time since my iguana died in seventh grade.
learned german
bought a bike
learned that the other side of the world is still soar about the cold war
went to the mercedes museum
went to a bike race (saw levi liephiemer)
went to rothenburge
saw a tourture museum
passed A2.1 level
went to munich
saw the fraun kirche
saw st. pauls kirche
saw the oktoberfest grounds
saw neuschwanstien castle
toured hohenschwangau castle
had great wiener schnitzel
toured dachau concentration camp
stayed in a hostel in a room with 7 other strangers
got yelled at by train people alot.
lived off spagehitti for a while
started classes at goethe again
signed up for classes in vienna
went to a stuttgart philharmonic concert
went to a catholic church service in german
went to ludwigsburg.
saw a lousy museum
used my philosophy background to mess with some mormans
toured a big mansion
broke a stove
learned just how important parents are for how we turn out (i.e. adam drunken idiot)
signed up to go to frankfurt
frankfurt trip got canceled
found out just how mature i am.
endured drunken parties out side my door almost every night.
and i think thats all...
before i leave for vienna i have to:
1. get rid of bike some how
2. throw out allot of stuff
3. find out how stove thing will work
4. pack
5. mail some stuff home
6. laundry
7. ect...
as you can see its been an eventful 2 months. dad asked me if i got my moneys worth out of my bike and i said i didn't think so but looking back on it i rode it out of the city that one day and i used it in munich (it was a huge help (must have broken adozen or more laws there on it)) and i rode it during the course breaks and other misc. riding. also that one really good corner (down hill 180 at 30 kph the whole time) (fun) i think i did get 200 euro out of it. or atleast close to 200 euro.
classes were benifitial i know more now than when i came in both german and global stuff. i learned alot about group dynamics both in class and in my appartment.
i had some great chocolate.
and learned to live even more spartanly than i already did.
i believe all of these lessons will help in vienna.
i'm looking forward to going to vienna. and am only really worried about afew things
1. will my room mate be a drunken idiot
2. i have to registar with a district office
3. finding my dorm
4. my class credits transfering to central properly
5. the course load being to high.
other than that i'm confident i can make things work.
since my time in germany is coming to a close (5 days left) i feel it only fiting to write an overview of my experiences here.
flew in
transfered through amsterdam
got confused, eventually figured out how trains work
cried for the fist time since my iguana died in seventh grade.
learned german
bought a bike
learned that the other side of the world is still soar about the cold war
went to the mercedes museum
went to a bike race (saw levi liephiemer)
went to rothenburge
saw a tourture museum
passed A2.1 level
went to munich
saw the fraun kirche
saw st. pauls kirche
saw the oktoberfest grounds
saw neuschwanstien castle
toured hohenschwangau castle
had great wiener schnitzel
toured dachau concentration camp
stayed in a hostel in a room with 7 other strangers
got yelled at by train people alot.
lived off spagehitti for a while
started classes at goethe again
signed up for classes in vienna
went to a stuttgart philharmonic concert
went to a catholic church service in german
went to ludwigsburg.
saw a lousy museum
used my philosophy background to mess with some mormans
toured a big mansion
broke a stove
learned just how important parents are for how we turn out (i.e. adam drunken idiot)
signed up to go to frankfurt
frankfurt trip got canceled
found out just how mature i am.
endured drunken parties out side my door almost every night.
and i think thats all...
before i leave for vienna i have to:
1. get rid of bike some how
2. throw out allot of stuff
3. find out how stove thing will work
4. pack
5. mail some stuff home
6. laundry
7. ect...
as you can see its been an eventful 2 months. dad asked me if i got my moneys worth out of my bike and i said i didn't think so but looking back on it i rode it out of the city that one day and i used it in munich (it was a huge help (must have broken adozen or more laws there on it)) and i rode it during the course breaks and other misc. riding. also that one really good corner (down hill 180 at 30 kph the whole time) (fun) i think i did get 200 euro out of it. or atleast close to 200 euro.
classes were benifitial i know more now than when i came in both german and global stuff. i learned alot about group dynamics both in class and in my appartment.
i had some great chocolate.
and learned to live even more spartanly than i already did.
i believe all of these lessons will help in vienna.
i'm looking forward to going to vienna. and am only really worried about afew things
1. will my room mate be a drunken idiot
2. i have to registar with a district office
3. finding my dorm
4. my class credits transfering to central properly
5. the course load being to high.
other than that i'm confident i can make things work.
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