Work work work work work! We do a lot of it! Class class class class class! I'd like to say we have a lot of that too :) but, yes, Its pretty overwhelming to sit through 3 1.5 hour lectures in a row, two days in a row! By the end of the day i want to just go crazy! ha so I practice...not such a great idea. So classes are taking off now and I'm learning a bit of German, even though the teacher never calls on me to speak...? My other classes are quite cool. Toda...

Today was another big day of being a tourist. It is also the 199th anniversary of Franz Joseph Haydn's death. Appropriately, we tracked him down while jumping around the outskirts of Vienna. First we went to Rohrau, which, i hate to say it, was kind of boring. We saw the place where he was born, but here is the thing: there were no real artifacts from when he lived there. Even the house was new because the original burnt down in a fire. Not to mention, it was...

pre note: my hairdryer broke. thanks, austrian energy supply...thus the amazing hair in the pics. another note: ignore the photo for the day...i have to choose one. It is NOT snowing here, nor am I in the Alps (Its actually kinda flat with distant hills, we are closer to the Hungarian plane) in the morning I woke up with a trip to H+M followed by a kebap sandwich. These are amazing. It is greasy marinated chicken slices (its kind of peeled, like a potato, from...

Today was performance workshop. We had a masterclass where people could play for the instrumental students in the class and recieve feedback about their performance habits, etc... I played the Haydn again, but had a terrible memory slip, and the audience didnt like my performance at all. They found it tentative. Hmm. I dont want to make excuses, but the piano took a lot of getting used to, and when they asked me to try something different I couldn't figure out ho...

Loooong day! It's my roommate, Alicia's, 20th birthday! We celebrated with Gelatto tonight...I used my German skills, thanks to a class that moves at about a chapter every other class period. It's pretty intense for someone who's really not used to learning languages, and as you might guess, I'm not having much success! haha oh well. Everyone speaks English here anyway. Is that terrible of me? So today was a real taste of how classes are going to be. In short: ...