Have arrived, exhausted and sick, but on the mend hopefully. Am learning yet another keyboard arrangement after Ive learned the Italian one: i.e. Sorry for the lack of apostrophes. I cant get over how beautiful the IES palace is in Vienna. Ceilings, floors (thought of you, mom), staircases, everything. And then of course the city itself is beautiful in a kind of delicate, fairy-tale, royal, and above all CLEAN way. I had to laugh when I got here and started walking around, realizing how incredibly different from Milano it is. And then I tried to stare down traffic and cross the street, as Ive learned to do so well, and nearly got mowed down. At least they dont seem to have as many Vespas. I dont have enough digits left to count my near-death-by-Vespa experiences. Now
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