Blogs from Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Europe

It was an early start Saturday morning to get out to heathrow for our flight to Vienna, but a quick journey with quiet roads and no security queues. Although we didn't know at the time, there was a large Aids charity ball on called Life Ball, and on our flight were the Scissor Sisters. They were travelling very light on the entourage front. An exciting brush with celebrity. It was a beautiful weekend in Vienna, bright blue skies and nice and warm. We caught the airport train directly into the heart of the old city and after a short stroll arrived at the central square and church, Stephansdom. After a stroll down the main shopping street we came to the Opera House the meeting point for our afternoon bike ride. We had some time to kill ... read more

The last three days have been remarkable, but such a whirlwind that I have gotten behind In posting to my blog. I will attempt to catch up! One of the most remarkable opportunities thus far was the scheduled informal performance at Esterhazy Palace. We had secured permission to perform a short set of pieces at this hall, one that is considered by many to have nearly perfect acoustics, and, of course, was home to Haydn while he was under the patronage of the Esterhszy family. Pleasantly, this performance developed into a full conceret performance, since we were invited to continue singing on for a significantly sized audience as a result of several large buses of visitors arriving at the hall. We were thrilled to be asked to continue with our program so that the visitors could ... read more

Hey all, Spring Break 2012 has officially begun! We started our journey in Vienna. Vienna is absolutely gorgeous! I went to my first Opera which was in German so I was able to follow a good portion of it J We ran into some trouble with the public transportation system while on the subway so long story short… don’t try to take short cuts in Europe! We got to explore the city and see the Opera house, a church, and the national library, and some fresh markets. We also looked around the outside of the Spanish riding school… the only one of its kind. We’ve been very lucky with finding space on the trains so far considering we all majorly over packed! I’m going to really miss traveling by train when I get back home… if ... read more

Last night we preformed our plays for the first time. it went well i play an American tourist who flirts with this man named Novak. tonight we are preforming it again. it is fun and i do my part perfectly! ;) then me and some friends went out to a restaurnt and got something to drink. then we went home and i slept in till like 12. the teachers just say i should stay home all week so i am not too tired or get another cold... hey that is fine with me! ;D i love the work ethic here, cuz there isn't one. it is like a vacation! :) wich i think i deserve i do so much school work at home it is kinda sad :P today i went for a walk and went ... read more

hello, yes this morning i got on my computer and saw that my favorite Youtube-ist posted a new video, about how big record lables are "rubbish" that was a good funny morning. then went to school and durring mainlesson, we are working on the different structures, we had a sheet of paper with a list of words and they were the last words of each line of some poem. the purpouse was that the endings of each word were similar to either the next word or another in that stanza, so the endings would go (a,a,b,b. or a,b,a,b. or a,b,b,a...) so like imagine a= -ing (counting) and b= -ill (still) so a stanza would be like: ...- counting (a) ...- still (b) ...- walking (a) ...- mill (b) haha sorry i know i REALY explained that ... read more

Sorry everyone i know i haven't written in a while but i didn't have internet on my ski trip and i have been unmotivated recently. let me start by saying: i love tea! i used to hate it saying it had no flavor or no good flavor, but here they drink it every night at dinner so i have grown acustomed to it. i took a nap today but it was only for like a quarter of an hour so it was not very fufilling. i will try to go to bed earlier tonight. i lost the top jewl of my bellybutton ring recently and freaked out cuz it was expensive, in my distressed time the only substitute i could find was electrical tape so i used that but then the next day i was at ... read more

hello not much today. school was boring and long i think i figured out what kind of math i am doing in school, Algebra 2 no wonder it is kinda fermillar but not. can't wait to skype my class back home tomorrow! and go to my first party in Vienna! am understanding alot more now! glad the sucky phase is over! now i can have a good time and hang out with my new friends (still just Babsi, Cora, and Lelio) but i might get to know people more at the party. oh ya mom i forgot to mention it but i saw a Z3 the other day and thought of you! :) have a test tomorrow in English but i think i might do some of it in German. oh no! duhn duhn duhn duuuhhhnnn! ... read more

Hello, today my class went to a hauge zoo or "animal garden" as the austrians like to say. i saw many animals that i had never seen before like tigers, lions, pandas, penguins, white wolves, monkeys, they even had a rat room! aww i miss our rats we used to have at home! "hey mom can we get some new rats!?" after that me Babsi and her friend Lilio (a guy) went to a cafe house which is like a gourmet coffee house with mirrors on the walls, chandeliers, and red velvet seats. we all got a hot chocolate with whip. they were really big and more bitter and thick than the hot chocolate in America, the whipcream was not as sweet and they shure do pile it on there was so much! there was also ... read more

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If you haven't worked it out yet, I am quite behind in my blogs (so you aren't reading what I did a week ago, more like a month or two ago.. I am trying to catch up!). Read on for my adventures from 30 September (happy birthday mum!) until 3 October 2011.. Another city, another country! Welcome to Austria, home of where one of the greatest movie musicals of all times was filmed! I had 3 stops in Austria, and had 3 very unique experiences. First stop is Vienna. One could spend hours exploring Vienna’s museums and historical buildings by day and enjoying its musical culture by night. But with only 2 days to visit Vienna, I opted to explore the city highlights from the outside, where you can enjoy the architecture and design for free! ... read more