i'm in austria!

wien.

2004-12-13T11:33:00.000-08:00

i had a great time in vienna this weekend. i had been there before but never like this. we had our history professor, who is honestly the vienna expert, showing us around. i had never really thought about it before, i mean how awesome vienna is. when all the amazing cathedrals and castles were being built vienna was one of, if not the most, important city in europe. and it really shows.

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vienna is amazing. this is just a normal street. but is still just amazing.

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vienna. :)

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a street all lit up.

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karlskirche.

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karlskirche. the biggest catherdral in austria.

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for my project i had to go to zentralfriedhof (the big cemetery in vienna) where the musician's graves are.
beethoven.

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franz schubert.

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johann strauss.

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a little angel.

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my history teacher. klaus.

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me laughing.

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thomas.

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jake.

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hamilton.

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eric and i on the traid ride home.

Attracted to long voyages, to discover the unknown.

2004-12-09T08:21:00.000-08:00

vienna this weekend. pictures will follow, promise promise. hopefully i can pay attention to german long enough to learn lots of stuff. going with my history class. my history teacher is my favorite. so that's good. and austria is fine, thanks for asking. had a headcold but took a lot of cough syrup and kept tissues in pockets constantly. austria feels better now. it's keeping away from the snow though. prolly because of the shortage of flu shots.

paris, how i love thee.

2004-11-04T11:05:00.000-08:00

spent a few days in paris with my good friend sarah capshaw. we stayed in her friend alex's flat who is from london. i decided that i would definitely make it back to paris sometime in my lifetime and when that happened i would not have a chance to spend my nights hanging out with cute french boys. that is why i didnt see any sites. just french boys. we ate lots of bread with jam and that's about it. paris is very expensive. but lovely. how i wish i was there now.

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sarah and i my last night in paris. it is blurry and awful but it was walking across that bridge that i finally realized i was in paris. and it made me never want to leave.

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the only sight i really saw in paris. notre dame.

from wednesday on.

2004-10-25T05:27:00.000-07:00

i haven't updated in a while because i haven't done anything and taken pictures. oops.
i met the mayor of graz the other day, no pictures. just been going to parties and stuff. nothing interesting.
but on wednesday i leave for london! and from there i make my way to paris to meet up with sarah!
there will be plenty of pictures when i get back. BELIEVE ME.

vienna, the best trip ever.

2004-10-08T16:34:00.000-07:00

hamilton and i tried to go to vienna last night to see lightning bolt. we miss our first train then the next one comes 30 minutes late. we finally get on the train and hamilton gets fined 27 euros because he didnt have his discount card on him and by chance i did so did not get a fine. we get off at the wrong train station. finally get to the other one by pure luck. lost the directions on where the venue is. find the subway train we are suppose to take to get to the venue but dont know what stop to get off at. finally find people who tell us what stop to get off at but then can't find the subway again. finally give up and go to a bar but we're both so tired from walking around all night that we almost fall asleep at our table. decide to go to the trainstation to sleep and wait for our train that comes at 5:57am. nowhere to sleep. it's really cold. i'm hungry. and i need to use the bathroom which is locked. hamilton had many analogies and just thoughts about our trip but my favorite was 'the more we traveled the farther we got from our destination.' BEST TRIP EVER.

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we saw this sign a couple of times and have no clue what it means. it can't be german.

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we just rode on the ramps for a couple of minutes.

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this creepy eyeball was just hanging by one of the ramps. they were on both sides of it.

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a few of one of the many groups of people sleeping in the train station. we tried sleeping in many places including a phone booth but ended up on the floor.

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a display for a record store. i think the worst one ever. had to take a picture.

i'm done.

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my intensive german class is finally over. i passed. now the real semester begins.
the homesickness phase is hitting hard right now. but i'm okay. i have some really nice people here to hang out with and it really does make things alot easier. but i miss each and everyone of you.

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look at my new sweater!

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isn't it pretty?

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my friend with her band on stage.

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a little girl in lederhosen!

this weekend.

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we went to the country this weekend to see my mentor's friend alex sing with her band. first when we get there we go to buschanschank and drink some wine mixed with apple juice. mmm. buschanschank is a very traditional austrian thing and it is strange when americans show up so these austrians kept talking to us because they thought it was so neat we were there. they spoke some english and we managed to talk for a little. half english half german.
then we finally went to the place where alex was singing. as we are pulling up i hear her singing '99 luftballoons'. i was very happy. we get inside and i have never seen so many drunk teenagers in my life. it was really fun and i got free beer. her band also played country roads and dedicated to the 3 americans who were there(us). near the end a group of boys, who couldn't have been older than 16, came up and started hitting on me. one said i had a beautiful face and then asked me if i wanted a drink. it was quite funny.
we went back to alex's house and spent the night. the next morning we ate pancakes. she had brought them back from when she studied in minesota (sp?). then we walked to this cute little pizzaria and her parents bought us lunch and we ended it with a glass of styrian wine. after that we walked back to her house and her father let us drink the wine he makes at his house. he makes 1,000 bottles! we all drank 3 bottles of wine over a matter of hours and finally came back here. alex's niece was dressed in traditional austrian lederhosen. and her brother in law showed up in it too. but my picture got messed up.
it was a wonderful time.
and! they invited us to stay at their house in the mountain in the winter so we can go skiing.

2004-09-23T05:22:00.000-07:00

we went to Buschenschank last night. this is where they serve traditional austrian food and drink. they can only serve something if they make it there. so no soda, but we drank sturm. it's a young wine and it is soooo yummy and strong. ha!

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the road we walked up.

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everywhere in austria is so pretty.

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just another view.

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this is a picture of the food we ate. it was DELICIOUS.

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they have lots of cats and kittens running around everywhere. i played with them alot because i miss jorge.

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miss you guys.

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do you see the guy in the hat?!

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if you can't tell there two pictures are of a car from the driving school. and it is a porsche.

another busride.

2004-09-20T15:05:00.000-07:00

so we get on the bus to come home and its like 8 americans all sitting together and this old drunk guy gets on and starts saying stuff to us in styreish german (which is the dialect here) and we can't understand a word he says and then he asks us if we are american and we say yes and he starts singing frank sinatra to us and then pulls up his pant leg and kicking like the rockettes and singing 'no business like show business'

btw.

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i made it so ANYONE can leave me comments. so do.

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us at an irish pub... in graz.

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a view from above.

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a little of graz.

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this one is for rick.

once more.

2004-09-19T13:48:00.000-07:00

so, i'm in austria. new blog. so i can show all you wonderful people pictures....

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meredith, me, thomas and emily in pirna, slovenia.

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piran, slovenia.

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me at church in bled, slovenia.

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church in bled, slovenia.