I'm sure you're all chomping at the bit to know my latest adventures as an official student in a European university. Well, the last 24 hours have been quite eventful, if I do say so myself. I woke up yesterday and gave myself an hour and a half to get up to school and find the classroom for my first class, Alltagsleben im Mittelalter . I was hoping it was going to be interesting and captivating and the like, and, well, the best way to describe it was the exact opposite. There are first of all a lot of older people [View Full Entry]

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Today was a LONG but AWESOME day. I woke up this morning at 6 o'clock and was on the bus by 6:30. As I rode to school, the sun was just starting to come up, so that shows you just how early it was! I made it to the Treffpunkt Sprachen by 7 and took my place sitting at the top of the stairs, #4 in line for course registration. After finding out that the workers had actually stayed open 'til 2 yesterday, thus screwing over all the kids they'd sent away, I was a little bit annoyed. A lot of [View Full Entry]

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Don't get any impressions, the title is there for irony. Today I woke up at approximately 6:46am in order to be at school for class at 8:15, giving myself ample time to get lost along the way. Well, I made it up to school at about 7:45 after being packed so tightly into the bus I was leaning on the doors. When I finally found the classroom, I was a wee bit confused. It was in the section of the university's main building for the Institut für Theologie. Even the sign above the door said it. There were, however, about 30 [View Full Entry]

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Nothing to talk about today, was really really boring and I didn't do anything. Though I did make myself a new form of pasta for dinner, which was good. However, just one quick thing, I start school tomorrow, ah! Bright and early at 8:15 I begin with, "Sprache und Gesellschaft: Sprachliche Merkmale der nationalen Varietäten des Deutschen." Or, if you prefer, "Language and Society: Linguistic Differences of the National Varieties of German." It compares the German of Austria to that of Germany and Switzerland. I'm pretty excited for it, it should be my most interesting class, but also [View Full Entry]

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Ladies and Gentlemen, it's true. Soccer is like crack to Europeans. They can't get enough of it. Since we last spoke, much has happened! At 4pm yesterday, I met up with Libor and Borja in the Hauptplatz. Borja had in tow a whole flock of Spanish kids, and Libor was quietly bringing up the rear. I soon figured out why. When Borja came up to me to say hey and whatnot, all the Spanish kids completely ignored me. None of them introduced themselves to me, or gave me the chance to introduce myself to them. Thus, I took quietly took my [View Full Entry]

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Tag! It's only about 3 o'clock here right now, and I'm inbetween the two major events of the day, so thought I'd give a little update. Today I woke up to head out to the Schokofest, a part of Graz's celebration of Steirischer Herbst. It was fantastic! After meeting up with Libor and heading to the Franziskanerplatz, we met up with Elizabeth, Meghan, and Dietlinde. Franziskanerplatz is a small little square that connects into the Hauptplatz. It's right next to a Franciscan Monastery that is actually still active. There were even some monks roaming around. The place wa [View Full Entry]

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In case you couldn't tell from the title, it's raining and pouring and the old man is snoring in Austria. I woke up this morning at 7:30 to get ready for a last-minute planned day-trip to Klagenfurt, the capital of Carinthia, the state right next to Graz. It's only about 2 hours away by bus & train, so Elizabeth, Meghan, and I had decided to go since we had nothing to do today. It was, however, torrentially downpouring, and, after consulting the weather online, we decided to take a literal rain check on the trip. It's a bit of a bummer, [View Full Entry]

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Servus. I'm currently in the midst of my lazy two weeks off between DeutschIntensiv and actual classes. Sure sure, it sounds great, two weeks to hang around in Europe, but it's actually rather dull. Not too much going on, so not too much to write about. All my friends and I start classes at different times, so we're now all over the place, so there's not much to do during the days. For instance, Libor and Elizabeth started today, but Orla and I still have another week, so she actually went back to Ireland today. Oh well. I've been finding little [View Full Entry]

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Szia! I'm sure you're all dying to hear about my most recent adventure, I would be, too. Before we begin our tour, however, I'd like to point out some aspects that will make what I say and the pictures I have a little bit clearer. #1. Hungary is a weird little place. It shares a border with Austria, so to get there from Graz is only about an hour with the train. To get to Budapest, however, is 6 hours from Graz with the train. #2. Budapest is the capital, of course. The proper way to say Budapest, though, is Budapesht. [View Full Entry]

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Szia! Yes, I know that's not German, but we'll keep with the theme. I'm going to Hungary in 9 hours! More on that later. Yesterday was a pretty good day. I had my oral exam for DeutschIntensiv, and it's still so weird to think that it's over! We were put into groups of three and had to go in together and have a 20 minute conversation with Eva. I got paired with Meghan and Libor, which was good, nice being fed to the wolves with friends. We were the 4th group to go, and each group before us used all 20 [View Full Entry]

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