catch-up

busy as usual. i will post more about DEUTSCH (for frau lonnes) soon.

montag:
woke up not-so-rested after the bike trip. we took a test. my potential friend from this class has not been here for almost an entire week. oh well.

i didn't know we had the stephansdom tour after this and regretted my choice in foot attire. i had already been in the cathedral, seeing as it's right next to the u-bahnhof we go through all the time...i was pretty tired, so i didn't understand a lot of what renate was saying about the cathedral. then that lovely surprise hike up a really narrow staircase in a tower! climbing any stairs after a long bike ride is the last form of exercise i want, but before we knew what was happening we were climbingclimbingclimbing... it was different from the church in Brugge, because there were open spaces to take breaks/breaths on the way up. in die turm, we were trapped! it was a nice view at the top though. i saw hundertwasser's apartment! so many interesting rooftops in wien. there is so much more green up on top than there is on the ground.

then it was pretty much time for abendsklasse. one of our group members was in some sort of a grump mood and acted immaturely and rude towards steffi, which just is not cool because steffi doesn't deserve that, especially because she puts up with us (mostly this person) so well. it's so embarrassing to be forced to be associated with that attitude, because it's really like the worst-case american attitude manifesting itself.

after class, my friend amber and i walked around in search of the johannisbeere ottakringer bier, which was a sad failure. but we got some gösser radlers which were good anyway. just after we bought them from some random wurst stand, amber ran into her biology teacher or something from her high school on the street! it was pretty crazy, especially since he is from seattle. if we hadn't turned onto that street (at random) and stopped to buy the radlers, that never would have happened. even more amazingly, this is the second time she's ran into a high school teacher in wien in the last month.

eventually we wandered back and she showed me her apartment in the 3. bezirk. my first austrian apartment! i love seeing apartments. i wish i could see every apartment in this city, but i probably won't. hers is really huge, and really cheap for a one-bedroom (at least by our standards). she has it under weird circumstances though, so i don't know how normal that is.