America, Fuck yeah!

I must apologize for leaving you all in the dust in my last blog. A lot has happened since the last update. Like July 4th!!! I didn't really tell you about it yet so here are the low down and dirty details :D


Monday:
So on the 4th was my first day of Class here in Wein. It was pretty easy, and I was a little exhausted from straining to understand the teacher. She only spoke german to us. No other language.  Ugh. What a day! Anywho... We went out and bought tickets for Harry Potter 7.1 and 7.2 Double feature. I'm so terribly excited its going to kill me. The 12th is almost here. Seriously. I get to see it before AMERICA!! yayay~! SOOOO on America day I rounded up all the Americans in the Studentenheim and we all went out to a bar to celebrate! Well the original bar I chose was total crap so we just went down the street to the Austrailian bar we went to the night before because it was literally just half a block away. TURNS OUT it was trivia night. We all know how much I love trivia right? I fucking love it. I love trivia more than Hitler wanted  a master race. Seriously I love it. I'm filled with useless knowledge. Well today it wasn't so useless! All in all we came in second place. We lost by half a fucking point. Luckily we lost to an American team. I would not stand for some Austrian to win my money. It was a 2Euro buy in and we get a free shot at the end of the game. Half a point... seriously!?!?!? The question that totally fucked us? "of the original 13 colonies, which was the first to abolish slavery?" Do you know? Its Pennsylvania. We put Massachusetts. Curse you Amish land! We still won 20 Euro that we have every intention to invest into next Monday. Like hell I'm not gonna go back and throw down some serious trivia action. I'm gonna win. Whats the winning pot like? Well America day it was at about 1500 euro. Thats some serious dough. That would have sent me sky diving... That would have bought me an extra nice Dirndyl.Oh well. No more focusing on the could haves, now to focus on winning this coming monday to lay some serious smack down. Our team name was "America, Fuck yeah!" and we almost saved the day.

Tuesday:
I honestly can't remember what happened on tuesday. We went to class, and did some stuff. After class we went to Mariahilferstrasse. It was crazy there. I only had an hour to find a pillow, cause these pillows in our rooms are about the worst things I've ever slept on since the history of ever. The bed is comfy but has ZERO support from the pillow. We walked around and found some police to ask where to go. The police force out here (Polizei) are super yummy looking. For serious. Found a pillow shop and I dropped 20 Euro on a foam neck pillow. That night I had my way with that pillow. I made it my bitch and I slept sooooooo good. But after I made my purchase we went to the museum of Wein. Or more commonly referred to as Wein Museum. The bottom floor was mostly about Medieval Wein and the only super cool thing I saw were these death masks/helmets and sheilds. They were pretty badass. Other than that its nothing I havent seen before in other museums. THEN on the second floor right when you walk in there is this striking painting done of one of the Kaiserin. It was magnanimous. I seriously stared at that painting for over 20 minutes. There was a whole floor of other stuff to see but THAT was the one thing that amazed me. The insane detail, the shadows and light, the amazing dress and lifelike quality of the woman in the painting. Then there was the creepy painting of her kid up above her. Creepy baby photo I like to call it...  I was captivated by it like if you stare at Vigo too long or something. Might become possessed by a demonic painting and try to take over the city of New York. I think that was a different situation though... Afterwards everybody split up and did their own thing. I ended up going with a few out to a Vegan pub. That was an adventure in itself. I don't mind drinking there but like hell if I'm ever gonna eat there again. It tasted okay but the post traumatic event that followed was unpleasant to say the least. I had a few beers with the homies and peaced out.

Wednesday:
Started my day with some coffee and a muffin from starbucks. Total cost? 7 euro. Thats about 12 dollars. for a fucking frapp and muffin. WTF mate... Everything is about the same cost here, but the dollar to euro ratio kind of sucks. Went to class and then about 30 minutes before it was over, that Vegan food saught its horrid revenge. I was able to stay strong during the whole way home, but oh was I in pain. I walked slow, had this mutant look on my face like I was going to die (it sure felt like it). I'm just gonna say... garlic farts. It was like the scene from alien when the alien was coming out of the guys stomach. After that it was all kosher and I felt great. I even went out to somewhere with some folks. A few broke off to go to a strip club and wound up paying 16 Euro for two beers. Which beer? Corona. What a rip off. The rest of us just chilled out and had pizza, and walked around. It was an early night. Good night too. Some weird guy in the lobby complimented my eyeshadow that night. He said "I like your eyeshadow, its very elegant." First thing that jumped to mind "is he gay or something?" No man has ever said anything about my makeup before. Let alone thats the first thing someone says to me upon meeting them. I told him would even say anything like that. Seriously weird. But thanks. Weirdo.

Thursday:
Another day another Euro... Went to school in the morning and then kind of just chilled out a bit. I don't really remember doing much around town and I didn't go out that night. We did stop by the bunni+casino in the subway station. It was very unimpressive. After school we went on a walking tour of the ringstrasse stuff in the museum district. It was very educational and informative. We ended up seeing Motzart statue, and Goethe statue, and took some pics with my homeboy Freud. We were everywhere that day. After that we were all so exhausted that we went back to the studentenheim and I watched a movie with my PIC and slept through most of Sex and the City. I woke up at my favorite part though so its all good. After that I got to chat with some folks back in the good ol USA and stayed up til 2AM here. Which rolled into friday.

Friday: TGIF. School was kind of dumb easy today and we had a sub. Moseyed around and then friday night happened. It was such a fuper sun time. We went to the "Bermuda triangle" and "got lost" but in reality we knew where we were the whole time. The bars, the nightlife, the scene... totally for me. I had a blast there. I even drank beer. As of jetzt I have three more weeks and I plan on exploring the nightlife as well as the daytime. That night we drank a ton, got schnappfaced and had a blast. We ran into a batchelor party at one point and then we had drunk pizza. I may or may not have stolen a mug from a bar. I mean, I'm not totally sure how that giant mug ended up in my purse but its mine now ;) We got home by 3 and I went to bed at 4 and then I woke up at 7:30 the next morning for one of the most awesome places/stressfull days I've had thus far.

Saturday gets its own blog. I have to let things simmer before I write a scathing review.

Sunday: So I woke up at noon. I slept A LOT. Then I went out to hopefully buy my Dirndl but that was a wash. Can't buy anything except food on Sundays. What is with this city?! Don't you want my money?!?!?! Oh well. So we got some noodles and I went into the Catacombs under Stephansdom. It was very cool down there. Both interesting and temperature. That was my favorite part because there is no such thing as AC out here. nobody uses it. Just pop a window open and move along. Its hot and sweaty every day. But yeah. There were signs that say no photography, and the guide said no photography... but does that ever stop me? No, it just impairs the quality of my photos. It was really dark so the ones you see on FB will be blurry and I will have to explain each blur to you.

BUT NOW WE ARE CAUGHT UP!!!! HUZZAH! Except for the good the bad and the ugly that happened on saturday.

Auf Wiedersehen!