Täglich Wiederkehrendes Abenteuer

So I’m here at training. I was pretty nervous about making it to the place, but when I was waiting for the second train connection, I found some other people on the platform who were going to the same place as me. So we sat together on the train and chatted. Then when we got off the train and went to the bus stop, there were at least forty of us waiting there for the bus. I’m sure the bus driver was surprised by all of us, since our destination is a ski resort town and there’s not much snow yet. After that, I just followed the rest of the herd.

We got there, dumped our stuff, milled around, and ate dinner. Then we broke into groups to introduce ourselves and talk a bit about the coming week. After that, we all had a drink together at the place we’re staying and then some of us went down the street to a bar.

Today, we had a bunch of meetings to talk about activities we might do in the classroom and important things for dealing with the bureaucracy here in Austria. The food was pretty good.

Apparently Maria von Trapp is a real person. She is good friends with one of the people running the show here. He called her on Skype with all of us in the room so we could sing her a song for her birthday. She’s 96 now and she lives in Vermont. It was interesting.

Apparently the Sound of Music is not very popular around here. Many people think it’s kitschy. Or they’re unfamiliar with it. Might be an interesting topic for discussion in class.