Started classes last week. Lemmie tell you, i had a hard time finding classes to take. Over here, the austrian students test out classes for a couple of weeks before deciding if they wanna take the classes. They will enroll for more than the amount of classes they wanna take, and then drop the ones they don't wanna take before the add/drop period, which is almost two months long. For me, i went to 3 classes, dropped all three, and added two new ones that I love.
I met a bunch of Austrian students! We were VIPs at a party, and we got free drinks, free shirts, got to dance to a really cool band, and even got to meet the band! Everyone wanted to meet the cool americans that were at the bar, so henceforth, that is how we met a lot of people. BTW, I was invited by my orientation buddy, who is quite cool, i must say.
We went to Graz this weekend, and toured around wine country and the city. It was so beautiful, and I got plenty of pictures. Check facebook for these photos later this week. Our tourguide did a lot of english/german translations, and her english was terrible, and hilarious at the same time. We went to a wine tasting, went up into the mountains and had some food and more wine, and saw so many vineyards. It was beautiful.
I started my internship! I work in a middle school helping/teaching English to classes. I range from 1st year English learners to 4th year learners. This means I speak a lot of German and English on any given day. Good practice for both, actually. There have been a lot of teachers, though, that have said, 'ok, nice of you to be here, now teach us for 50 minutes. ' Doing that without a lesson plan is terribly hard, so I have just started to come up with lesson plans incase that happens again (which it will... I know it). But hey, that's what being a teacher is all about, right?
And then there is vienna. I really love the city, cause there is so much one can do here.
And then, next weekend, i think i am going to Hungary. And then the weekend after that, I am going to Barcelona for 4 days, which we found tickets for extremely cheap! That trip is going to be very cheap. I am excited for all of this traveling coming up here. Eventually, during sometime, i want to get to go skiing, go to zurich, stolkholm, and poland. should be fun.
Well, this was short, but just letting you know what was up. Here are some awesome pictures that were taken by me and others on our program
Up on the hill in the middle of the city
This stone was expensive to cut, because it was thrust into the hot soup of our earth two times... Quote from our crazy tour guide
When renovating a building, they found a lot of different roman tombstones, which had a lot of historical importance for the people of the area (by Graz)
The drummer to the VIP band show we went to
A snowman group picture!
