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Published: October 8th 2009
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"Linzergasse" and St. Sebastian
around the corner from our hotel Day 2 (Sunday, September 20, 2009)
We slept in a little on Sunday to recover from the trip and then went down for breakfast. Breakfast included different kinds of meat, cheese, bread and marmalade, pastries, cereal, yogurt, fruit, eggs, sausage, tea, juice, coffee, etc. The weather was beautiful so we decided to sit outside again. Our hotel was right around the corner from St. Sebastian so we could hear the church bells very well. It was nice in the morning but not so nice late at night. Salzburg has hundreds of churches so you can hear different bells throughout the city. We took it kind of easy the rest of the day while we were getting over the jetlag. We walked to St. Sebastian church and walked through the cemetery. St. Sebastian was the main cemetery of the city during Wolf Dietrich's time. This is also where Mozart’s family is buried. Mozart is not buried there since he died in Vienna and was also buried there. His grave has not been identified. In the middle of the cemetery is St. Gabriel's Chapel. We couldn't go in but we managed to get a few pictures through the gates.
Maggie had given
me the name of a student who lives in Haus Mozart, a dorm near the Mozarteum with practice rooms, so I gave her a call to meet her later that day so I could practice. I didn’t think I would be able to get a room at school since I wasn’t officially a student there yet. While I was practicing my parents scouted out the area and ended up finding a couple of nice restaurants and cafes. I met up with them later for a late lunch and walked around Old Town where we came across the Easter store! The store was closed but what we saw through the window was amazing! It was a sea of hand painted egg shells! They were so beautiful and incredibly detailed. I had never seen anything like it. I knew we would be coming back. The rest of the day escapes me at the moment…
Day 3 (Monday, September 21, 2009)
The next couple of days were spent dealing with paperwork and all the government stuff. Bleh! We had to meet Maggie at her office so we could wrap up the dorm stuff and she helped us figure out where we needed
to go to get everything else done. We had to go to a different office for every little thing so we were running around the city trying to get everything done as quickly as possible. All of the offices close so early so we had to make sure to get started early. It was very tiring and stressful.
Most people here speak English so our inability to speak German hadn’t really been much of a problem….not until we went to register at the dorm office. I had to get a form to take to Mirabell Palace and then to the Magistrat to show proof of my residence and apply for my residence permit. I asked for the form and it was all in German, of course. I looked at it and knew the obvious things like name, date, birthplace, etc. but the rest I had no clue. I asked the lady if she could help me. She started to help me and then all of a sudden she pushed the form away and told me to come back in 5 min. I walked away a little confused. She came over and told me that if I needed help I
needed to come back later. Her boss had told her that she was not allowed to help me because I need to learn German. So there I was with my dictionary trying to figure out what the rest of the form said. Ugh! Once I was done I asked someone at the hotel to look it over. What could have taken just a couple of minutes ended up taking much much longer, and by the time I was done the office was closed. We had to wait another day to get everything done. Later in the afternoon I met with Radovan for a lesson. He gave us a tour of the school and then we played for a couple of hours. Afterwards, I took my stuff back to the hotel and then we caught a bus to the mall. We wanted to get a few things for my place and my mom was hoping to find a few short-sleeved shirts because she brought clothes mainly for cooler weather. We had been watching the weather before we left Houston so we would know what to pack but the weather ended up being warmer than we had expected. It was nice, just
a little too warm for what we brought. By the time we got to the mall we had only a few minutes before closing time. Stores close very early here. Most shops close between 5pm and 7pm during the week. They also have limited hours on Saturday and are closed on Sunday. You really have to get your errands done early and/or during the week. Hey, I think I could handle working here 😊
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Lynne
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How is the German coming along? I know a few things but am sure you will learn lots!