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As of 10am Friday (that's 3am for you central time folks), I have been in Vienna, safe and sound. I'm going to move to a different computer. brb
Okay. There is so much different here. I made a list: light switches, toilets, computer keyboards (z and y are switched, among other things), the language, subway etiquette, obsessions with Mozart. I could go on, but I won't. How about I describe the past four days?
Thursday: 10am: Went to the airport with Mom and Dad, talked after checking in. Got a sticky roll. Boarded the plane to Atlanta. Talked to the nice dude I was sitting beside. He suggested I go exploring where there are no tourists or cities. 2:30pm: Arrived in Atlanta, read, and got dinner. I was halfway through my burrito when the plane people announced that there would be dinner served on the plane. So, I wrapped it up for later. 5pm: Boarded the plane for Vienna. Dad, you are completely right about the legroom of an exit row, thanks. My seatmate this time was a nice lady named Olga. She was on her way to Czechoslovakia to show her niece around where she grew up. We talked a bit, read a bit, ate dinner and watched "Mad Money" ('twas pretty funny). Then we tried to sleep, gave up, and read some more. I finally tried using the eye cover thing the airline gave us, it worked pretty well...for an hour and a half, and then they were serving breakfast. 10am/3am(c): We arrived in Vienna. Thank you to Olga for telling me that bathrooms are called water closets in Vienna (abbrev. WC). Then another IES student, Brooke, randomly found me at the bus, and we found our way to the IES office. I was existing purely on backup energy at this point. There was meeting other girls and walking up and down the street to pass time. Then orientation happened, and we chose/were assigned housing. I now live in an apartment with four rooms and seven people that is about 30 minutes away from IES. We took a taxi there, talked to the landlord (Elinor from NY), went to the grocery store, unpacked, and crashed. Jet lag is like an anchor, dragging me down.
I need to go practice and register for classes, more on everything later.
Greenz.
Okay. There is so much different here. I made a list: light switches, toilets, computer keyboards (z and y are switched, among other things), the language, subway etiquette, obsessions with Mozart. I could go on, but I won't. How about I describe the past four days?
Thursday: 10am: Went to the airport with Mom and Dad, talked after checking in. Got a sticky roll. Boarded the plane to Atlanta. Talked to the nice dude I was sitting beside. He suggested I go exploring where there are no tourists or cities. 2:30pm: Arrived in Atlanta, read, and got dinner. I was halfway through my burrito when the plane people announced that there would be dinner served on the plane. So, I wrapped it up for later. 5pm: Boarded the plane for Vienna. Dad, you are completely right about the legroom of an exit row, thanks. My seatmate this time was a nice lady named Olga. She was on her way to Czechoslovakia to show her niece around where she grew up. We talked a bit, read a bit, ate dinner and watched "Mad Money" ('twas pretty funny). Then we tried to sleep, gave up, and read some more. I finally tried using the eye cover thing the airline gave us, it worked pretty well...for an hour and a half, and then they were serving breakfast. 10am/3am(c): We arrived in Vienna. Thank you to Olga for telling me that bathrooms are called water closets in Vienna (abbrev. WC). Then another IES student, Brooke, randomly found me at the bus, and we found our way to the IES office. I was existing purely on backup energy at this point. There was meeting other girls and walking up and down the street to pass time. Then orientation happened, and we chose/were assigned housing. I now live in an apartment with four rooms and seven people that is about 30 minutes away from IES. We took a taxi there, talked to the landlord (Elinor from NY), went to the grocery store, unpacked, and crashed. Jet lag is like an anchor, dragging me down.
I need to go practice and register for classes, more on everything later.
Greenz.
