Last night after I got back from school, I looked at my mailbox and I had a note from the Doorman waiting for me, "I have for you a post." This morning, I went and paid the Doorman a little visit, and got a nice package from Nanbo & Grumpi. The part I got the biggest kick out of, though, was that on the customs declaration form, our Poopsie claimed absolutely everything inside, eliminating the element of surprise but giving me quite the laugh. Anyways, I received some small gifts and whatnot that I haven't yet opened, and Nanny also packed [View Full Entry]

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It's been a crazy and hectic weekend, but overall a good one. Friday night I just laid low. Didn't really have anything to do or anyone to play with. Thomas was off with the Frenchies , and Libor had his volleyball class and went out with some of the people from it after. I ended up going for a little tour of the city on my own, as it was heavily snowing and I wanted to see everything lit up for Christmas with the snow. It was really really nice, and we ended up getting several inches of snow. I also [View Full Entry]

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Grüßi. Though I talked to several of you yesterday, I figured I'd update this thing with some more information, etc. Yesterday in Austria was....totally normal. It was very odd because I knew it was Thanksgiving but it didn't feel like it. I slept in, hung out for the morning and afternoon, and then went to class at 3. Not terribly exciting. However, since it was a holiday , I decided to take the day off and do absolutely no homework. It was a beautiful day. As I've said before, the Americans can't play well with others. I'm conside [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, Just a quick note to update everyone on the happyhaps of Austria. Woke up today to snow on the ground, which was pretty exciting. I also had my oral exam in my German class for international students, which went well. We went in groups of threes, and I was with Elena from Espain (as she says it) and Anna from Hong Kong. We've had a few articles so far this semester and are reading a book right now, and so we could have been given the topic of any of them to chat about, and naturally, my group got [View Full Entry]

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Grüß Gott. It is officially Christmastime in Austria. As you all know, Thanksgiving is American, therefore, it is not celebrated, observed, recognized, understood, known, etc. etc. in Austria. So, while you all are stuffing yourselves silly on Thursday, I'll be sitting in class. Cheers. However, since there is no Thanksgiving, that means that Christmas comes earlier here. No no, that doesn't mean listening to Christmas carols on the radio and blah blah blah, that means real, true Christmas. In pretty much every Germanic city/town, the Hauptplatz (and subsequently all sma [View Full Entry]

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Hallo alle. Since we last spoke, it's been rather low-key here. I had my midterm for my German for International Students class on Tuesday, and that went alright. My professor had put stuff on it that we'd never learnt, which was pretty annoying, and it threw all of us off. I was sitting inbetween a friend from Australia and a friend from Spain, and we decided to make it a team effort and use each others' papers to "bounce ideas off of one another." Tuesday night, Thomas decided he wanted to cook us dinner, and Libor and I had no objections [View Full Entry]

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Ladies and Gents, it's official. I'm an Austrian. This morning I woke up at the crack of dawn to meet my friend Sophia. Together, we went to the Staatsbürgerschaftsbüro to pick up our residency permits. I am officially a resident of the Republic of Austria, and a "member" of the European Union. Jawohl! They spelt my name wrong, but oh well. I have to go back next week and pick up a new card with my name spelt right , but such is life. I also reregistered my address with the government today, so all officialities are finalized. So this is [View Full Entry]

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Servus. I have had a ridiculously busy week, and this is my first time to update this ol' thing, so I thought I'd let you all know what I've been doing. To start with, I'll answer Kristy's question from my last blog, which was something I'd thought about after I'd written it but was too lazy to go back and change it. Erasmus is the European Exchange Network. All the European kids here are here with Erasmus. Though I'm not Erasmus, as I am not European, I'm still a member of the network, as is every change student at my university [View Full Entry]

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Alright, nobody said that while we were abroad, we'd all have to actually do homework and go to school and do that stuff. Isn't going abroad about traveling and enjoying yourself and really just having a year off? Not in Austria. This has been a very academic weekend indeed. It all started....Friday.... Friday morning I had to wake up nice and early to go with Elisabeth (my advisor) and Sophia (my friend from Mexico) to go and drop off the paperwork for our residency permit. Sophia also decided to stay for the year. Thus, I was up at 6:45, and we [View Full Entry]

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Greetings all, It's been an awesome few days since we last spoke, just getting settled in here on Neubaugasse and finding ways to avoid the 100+ pages I have to read for Italian. It's a rough life. Anyways, not too much to report on, just loving life and enjoying myself. I'm feeling pretty European at the moment, as it's 8:30 at night and I just finished eating dinner. Today I also plugged in my tv for the first time and was flipping through the channels , and I found Rai Uno, which I was excited about. It [View Full Entry]

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