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.
4 comments:
tell me about not being able to communicate with your roommate... mine is a chinese and he also speaks english very very badly... but ohh yeah to mexican sex traditions :)
i have bout 10 chinese in the classes on a regular basis, and nobody really expects them to talk - they literally sleep :p
but mexicans, leldii..cross-cultural friendship, he he.. :)
turpini, māsica, rakstīt! Riktīgi interesanti ;)
Z.E.
haha.. of course you look like eastern european girl. It's written on most gilrs faces from baltic states. And its all about too short skirts, too much make up and other stuff.. people from western world avoid such people... :( I know some people who had the same problem in erasmus...
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