i picked up emily and leah from westbahnhof in the evening. after getting them to their hostel, we went out to several places! the first was the final event of cultura wien, the heuriger party. the heuriger (a wine garden) was far north and we had to take the strassenbahn to get there. after some lost/confused in the rain times, we eventually arrived near the end of the event. while waiting for the strassenbahn outside of the u-bahn, i had the amusing experience of seeing almost everyone i know in another strassenbahn going the opposite direction at the stop. hehehe

we had a glass of wine each and i met some people from other classes that i had seen a lot but never talked to. one was ixchin (?), a guy from china who goes to school in france, and a guy from turkey whose name i never really got (he was rather drunk). the former talked about racism against asians in france (who knew?) and the latter talked about his long trip to NYC/ocean city/virginia beach.

then we met up with jessica, anne, and two düsseldorfers they met on the u-bahn at the prater to go ~dancing~. it was fun and very different in mostly good ways from clubs in the U.S.
#1 - no cover! interestingly, to pay for drinks they gave everyone a card to use at the bars. to get out, you had to pay your whole tab at the exit. i'd never seen that before, but i don't go to a lot of clubs/buy a lot of drinks anyway so maybe it's not that special.
#2 - more dancing space! i actually had room to move around and didn't feel like i would die if i slipped or anything. also when someone wants to dance, they don't just come over and grab your hips immediately.
#3 - more attractive people! although not by much.
i had an interesting experience with talking to some guy completely in german! absolutely no english was used in this conversation and i only had to ask him what he meant a few times. unfortunately he got a little creepy by the end, but he helped us get home on the night bus.

we got back around 4:30 AM. anne and i ate her delicious delicious magnum ice cream bars as the sun rose. that was a good night.