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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]