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I've been accepted! Yeah! I had my interview two days ago and they wrote me today that they would very much like me to come and be a part of their March 2007 class of volunteers. =) So I am happy. My original plan has worked out. My orientation starts on March 5th, so I will be arriving in Santiago around March 2nd. The only thing that is hard is that I have to apply for my residential visa for Chile as soon as I get to Argentina...it takes about a month and a bunch of paperwork.=( At least I have Guingui there to help me. In at Lena's parents house now, about 40min train ride outside of Munich in a tiny village called Obertaufkirchen. Very cool. Her parents have been really nice to me. I really like her sweet Russian mommy. She made us golash today. Previously in Vienna, Lena and I went to the Modern Museum of Art and got to play/look at an exhibit by Erwin Wurm. When I am able to post up pics (they have dialup here....) you will understand what I mean by play. =) It was a lot of fun and I really like his work. I also made Lena, Viki and Aga Chinese food for dinner. The next day Lena and I visited the Hofburg palace where we saw the China/Silver, Royal Apartments, and Sissi Museum...talk about extravagance! It was overwhelming. We were exhausted by the time we finished. Talk about hundreds of years of lavish living. My lonely planet said that if 'New York was the Big Apple, Vienna was a big wedding cake'...well that is exactly the way I would describe it. Everything there is grand, beautiful, decadent...every inch that can be decorated is. The Sissi museum has a strange cultish feel to it too. It is completely dedicated to Empress Elizabeth, wife of Kaiser Franz Joesph. It was a really interesting story, but definitely a little strange for a museum. Anyway, we also saw Stephansdom, a very large gothic church in the center of old Vienna. Then gave ourselves a break and had coffee and sachertorte, a really sweet chocolate cake that is traditional to Vienna. After wandering around some more we found out that there were student tickets being sold at the last minute for an opera at the Vienna Opera House, so we rushed back to her dorm and changed to go to the opera. Lena still doesn't have the metro system down yet, so we got off at the wrong stop, so by the time we got to the right stop we literally had to run for several blocks to get there. We got our tickets and made it inside the doors by about 10 seconds! So we were all sweaty and out of breath as we were sitting down, all dressed up for the opera...but it was really great, I loved the music, just beautiful. It was 'Indomenico, Crete' by Mozart. They used a 'modern' set, which I was not impressed by at all, very uncreative and ugly. But the music was amazing and that is what is important. So after my first opera, I'm hooked. We went out to a bar and drank beer and danced to rock afterwards...I love being young.
On Thursday, we got a ride with someone else who was driving from Vienna to Munich, much cheaper than a train. We made it to her home at about midnight and were immediately given meatballs and potatoes and something to drink by her mom. The next day Lena showed me all around Munich. Its a very nice city. Later she took me to the English gardens where we were lucky enough to find a beer garden open in winter, so we had one of those huge mugs of beer, pretzels and obazda (trad. Bavarian cheese), and leberkäse (another trad., slice of meat). Yum! Afterward she showed me a Chinese tower that was in the middle of the English gardens...I promise I wasn't drunk, we really did go to an English garden in the middle of Munich, with a Chinese tower and an open beer garden in the winter=) After walking around some more, we finished the day off with some wine and a lot of girltalk at a student bar. Today has been very lazy, but tomorrow we are probably going to go sleding!
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