Hey, guess what. Today marks us being here for 1 month. I’m using the “moved in to the room” metric as “being here”. This puts us about 1/9 of the way through our time here. It seems like we’ve been here longer than that, but the time has gone really fast. It’s rather odd. For […]
We’ve got neat hallways here in Austria. Check it out:
This evening after my German class, we went over to a fair that Mary Jo learned about from her new students. We actually walked along the river a ways first, stopping at a couple of parks (oh man – we need to go back for pictures! *tease), and a small outdoor amphitheater. The fair itself […]
Not sure why I find this interesting, but here’s a breakdown of how expensive gas/diesel is here. Current Diesel Price: 1.124 Current Gas Price: 1.184 There are more diesels here, so that’s the most common fuel. Now, those are in Euros. The current conversion rate is 1.3702 dollars per Euro, so factoring that in, we […]
Man, toys here rock. So much so that your average toy: Even includes IT’S OWN TOYS!!!!!!! How cool is that? Also, these Austrians love their puns. Here’s an ad for “Der Big Texas Bacon”. Yeah, “kau” means “chew” in German. How funny is that? That’s not all though. Here’s a different one for the “New […]
So, by now you’ve figured out that the video blogging was kind of… um… fake. I’ve been keeping track of my week day by day with real events. So, now that it’s all over, here’s The Real Alone Week: Monday Mary Jo left this morning. I went down to the main train station with her […]
Buying things over here is much easier than in the States. The reason being that all tax is included in listed prices. If that toaster is listed as being 39.99 Euro, that’s what you pay. There is no tax added on. As such, most of their prices tend to end in a 5 or 0, […]