On a nice but a bit coldish Thursday's evening one extremely lucky Estonian guy (you should know why:) arrived to Austria - the land of Wienershnitzel and Apfelstrudel. So, I had an exciting chance to see some of the coolest places in Vienna and in the nearest distance already for the second time. But I didn't get too sad because 1)I will have one more chance to see it all when my parents come 2) it's not that bad after all :D
The first night we stayed in Vienna and our host was Jakob - Ultimate Frisbee player from my team. He had quite an impressive collections of Frisbee discs. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of them. As we stayed to sleep longer than everybody else, he told us that we can leave the door of the house open as he does it himself quite often. But I couldn't sleep because of this as I seemed to hear some noises from the possible burglars all the time :D Our first sightseeing stop was Schönbrunn palace. It is the most visited place in Austria, so we could not miss it! It is quite impressive and has a very nice garden!
Afterwards we visited some more nice places.
And in the end we just went to play Frisbee :)
The next day we went to Krems and some nice places around it like this one
and this one :)
Then we took a ferry trip back to Krems which allowed us to enjoy the beautiful sceneries of Austria.
The next day we went for a walk in the hills around Krems. Some devoted themselves to eating activities...
But some had more sport related activities...
As you can see, I'm not into writing mood :p
Bridzitta iet uz chuchumuizju... zzz...
Monday, September 24, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Servus in Austria!
Due to overwhelmingly many requests I have decided to start writing a blog so that everybody who is interested can follow my activities in Austria... :D Yes, Krems is in Austria, although some people for whatever reason thought I'm in Spain :)
I have spent here a little more than a week and today I will attend my very first lecture - Austrian culture and civilization which is a special subject for exchange students. And exchange students here are many - around 90 or so... Most of them come from Spain, there are many French and Russians. Two people have already asked me if I'm from Russia and when I asked them why, one of them said I look like one... Do I? :D I live with a Turkish girl who doesn't speak very good English and doesn't speak German at all, so our communication is quite limited. And she speaks with her boyfriend for at least 5 hours per day! But we have very nice and very loud neughbours from Mexico! I have communicated with them quite a lot and I assure you that Mexican culture is very interesting, especially regarding relationships and sex! So, my Mexican friends as most of the other people from Mexico do not have sex before they get married which is when they are around 24-25 years old! They are also quite jealous, so if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend you can't for example dance with other people. Well, we're having a lot of interesting conversations here! :)
I live in dormitories. I get breakfast every morning and they clean my room, so it's quite ok. The only problem that I have is with Internet. My laptop seems to have something wrong, so I cannot access Internet in dorms, but hopefully it will be fixed till the next week.
School is situated in a former monastery, it's quite beautiful but it's terribly cold in here even when it's 25 degrees outside! And it is on a hill, so every morning I have to climb some 90 steps which makes me quite tired once I get there! :D
Generally, Krems is a very beautiful city in wine growing area, so when I'm taking a walk in hills it's all just very tasty grapes around me! :)
I went to Vienna once to play Frisbee. Frisbee people are really cool, and in the weekend I already went to a birthday party with them. So, I have quite a lot of contact with Austrians, also in dormitories.
I don't have a camera yet, but somebody is gonna it bring from Latvia tomorrow :) So you will see some visual materials after tomorrow.
I have spent here a little more than a week and today I will attend my very first lecture - Austrian culture and civilization which is a special subject for exchange students. And exchange students here are many - around 90 or so... Most of them come from Spain, there are many French and Russians. Two people have already asked me if I'm from Russia and when I asked them why, one of them said I look like one... Do I? :D I live with a Turkish girl who doesn't speak very good English and doesn't speak German at all, so our communication is quite limited. And she speaks with her boyfriend for at least 5 hours per day! But we have very nice and very loud neughbours from Mexico! I have communicated with them quite a lot and I assure you that Mexican culture is very interesting, especially regarding relationships and sex! So, my Mexican friends as most of the other people from Mexico do not have sex before they get married which is when they are around 24-25 years old! They are also quite jealous, so if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend you can't for example dance with other people. Well, we're having a lot of interesting conversations here! :)
I live in dormitories. I get breakfast every morning and they clean my room, so it's quite ok. The only problem that I have is with Internet. My laptop seems to have something wrong, so I cannot access Internet in dorms, but hopefully it will be fixed till the next week.
School is situated in a former monastery, it's quite beautiful but it's terribly cold in here even when it's 25 degrees outside! And it is on a hill, so every morning I have to climb some 90 steps which makes me quite tired once I get there! :D
Generally, Krems is a very beautiful city in wine growing area, so when I'm taking a walk in hills it's all just very tasty grapes around me! :)
I went to Vienna once to play Frisbee. Frisbee people are really cool, and in the weekend I already went to a birthday party with them. So, I have quite a lot of contact with Austrians, also in dormitories.
I don't have a camera yet, but somebody is gonna it bring from Latvia tomorrow :) So you will see some visual materials after tomorrow.
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