Vienna

Vienna Parliament Above and a stop that we take a lot on the undeground is Karlsplatz.

Cool baroque church!
Candles Dana and I lit!
Locked in the church haha




Vienna is really beautiful.

Dana and I have been playing the Billy Joel song Vienna Waits for You a lot. It's really fun, I like Billy Joel.

Our first day, Eugene, Scott, Sean and I went to this place called the Floh Market. It is miles and miles of pastries and eastern European clothing and bags, and basically everything you can think of. It was pretty amazing.

Then we went to the center of town to look around. We got off the underground, went straight to a bratwurst stand and got a huge brat dog. They take an entire bread biscuit, stick a hole in it, put in the ketchup and mustard, and then put the dog inside of it. It is sooo great. Eugene then showed us all around the city, taking us to a rococo style church and to the parliament building and we listened to great street music the whole way through. There are tons of orchestras and bands playing that you can go see, I'm not sure if we will get to that or not.

Our hotel is a little outside of the main city on the Hutteldorf exit. It is a nice surbarban like area, and very clean of course. From my room, which is huge, I am looking out on hills and forests. Whenever I open the window, a rush of cold air comes in. Also, right next to the hotel is a great grassy park with tons of trees. Yesterday, a couple of friends and I were throwing my Frisbee around and watching the leaves fall from the trees, and it was a perfect temperature the whole time.

Our first class was great, combining art history, photography and literature in to one. After class, we went to a huge museum in the museum square in the center of town. It was great, there was Vermeer, Peter Paul Rubens, Hans Holbien, Rembrandt, lots of roman and greek sculptures, egyptian art and lots of armour.

We were thinking of going to Budapest for the weekend, but we all love it here so we decided to stay.

Our plans for today and the rest of the weekend are to hike around, go to a couple more museums, and just relax. I'm really excited.

If you are my friend on flickr, check it out, I posted tons of pictures!

Song of the Day

Billy Joel- Vienna Waits for You



French Word of the Day


jaune- yellow