Finally. We’ve been relying on the local grocery store for food. We’ve been relying on Ikea for bedding and kitchen stuff. We’ve had no idea where to get anything else, like duct tape, or tools, or croutons. Today, that all changed. I did some extensive looking and found a store called Interspar (English translation… good […]
Mary Jo has her teaching, but my job search has not been going well. It’s either “We love you, but you don’t know German!” or “We love you!” and then I never hear from them again. It’s been a bit of a bummer. Anyway, part of the way I’m keeping busy with with a podcast. […]
I’m sure you’ve noticed the issues we’ve been having with the blog the last 2 days. I’ve got a post up on my blog explaining the situation, for those of you that are interested.
Well, the day finally came. This morning I went over and got my hair cut. This was a rather trepidacious event for me. I’m always just a little nervous about haircuts. I never fully recovered from an “incident” when I was younger. Mom nearly sliced my ear off. Needless to say, she’s on the haircut […]
Today we had a little walking tour of Linz. It was arranged by the Austro-American Society, which is an Austrian/American club thingy. All the teaching assistants are being invited to join free. I paid 10 Euro to join. It’s actually a pretty neat thing with weekly discussions and intermittent events, like city tours and Halloween […]
I’ve been taking this German class at 4PM everyday. Yesterday we started the class with a module on telling time. I’m not sure why, but I found it pretty amusing when 3 people came in 15 minutes late. Late to time! Hahahahaha! Moving on. Telling time is basically the same in German. You can say […]
We’re going to get signed up for a local gym, but before that we need to prepare ourselves…
Today we went out and did a little shopping. The primary goal was to get a toaster oven, which after some trouble, we managed to do: We decided to do more wandering, which is becoming a theme, and found something pretty neat: The first words out of my mouth were “Boy, that’s for a baby […]
Today’s cheese is the Möhren Eko. It’s a hard cheese that, unlike most cheeses here, has a slight orange/yellow color to it. This is also the first cheese we’ve encountered where the outer layer is actually not edible. I discovered that quite… accidentally. On to the cheese itself! The outer edges are slightly hard and […]
Over the past several days, we’ve started exploring along the river. The first instance was the walk over to the fair. Today we looked over a different area. We didn’t do much exploring really, but we did find a nice park with a fountain. We sat on a bench for a bit. I took a […]