Man these past few weeks have been busy! Ben and I have been working on trying to get all our residency papers together, which is proving to be quite a hassle with a lot of complications with getting all our documents “authenticicized” and junk. But we still have been able to do quite a few fun things.
Mainly last Thursday we spent the afternoon at a Beer Tent in downtown Vienna. I didn’t realize that Vienna also does Oktoberfest celebrations, so instead of taking a 5 hour train ride to Munich and then back the same night, we decided to go to the festivities right here in Vienna. We ordered a liter of beer each along with pretzels, fries, sausages, and apple strudel to top it all off. We had a great time eating, drinking, listening to the music and overall enjoying the atmosphere. Then on Thursday evening we went to an Organ concert at a neo-gothic church downtown. Before it started we went to a café for some coffee, then after talking and hanging out for a while we headed over to the church. The organ concert was interesting, it is quite an instrument. The acoustics in the church were made for this kind of music so it was interesting to hear how it sounds in the church. We listened to a few more popular pieces (none of which I had heard) then the musician played his own piece, which was much more whimsical than the other pieces played.
During the weekend we really just hung out around town and walked around more. On Sunday we went to the outskirts of Vienna where the forests are. We got to a look out point and were able to see the whole city of Vienna, which was beautiful. Then we walked around in the forest a little, and headed home, stopping at a café along the way of course.
On Monday, I started the English class with my nanny family, and overall things went really smoothly. Since it was the first class, it was mainly a lot of coloring and learning in which countries English is considered the “Mother Tongue”. The kids seem to know some English but not a whole lot, and of course when I was introduced as “Katie from California” some of the boys started snickering saying “Hi Katy Perry. Hehe.” Such clever 10 year old boys… after the class was over and the kids all got picked up the mom said “I think we deserve some coffee,” so we went to a café (I just got hot chocolate) and ordered a yummy dessert to all share. While we ate and drank we continued to talk about the differences in America vs. here and I told the girl how we will have to make some American Chocolate Chip Cookies soon =)
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