Today I had my first class for my teaching internship. It was a really fun class and I'm excited to start going to the schools and interacting with the kids. Today our teacher basically just told us some history of the Austrian public schools and what the teaching system is like. One thing I found interesting was that every Austrian child starts speaking another foreign language at the age of 6 in public schools. No wonder everyone can speak english here! Anot...

Today my German class took a field trip to the Naschmarkt which is a market outdoors where you can buy food. Our German teacher took us around to all the vendors to practice shopping for food. I bought some delicious goat cheese and grapes. I will be putting up pictures from the naschmarkt soon. When I got back to my apartment, I went to practice in my soundproof practice room. When I closed the door to the practice room, I realized that the door was jammed an...

On Sunday, Becky and I went for a run and then we took the U-Bahn to the Prater, a park in Vienna, which used to be an imperial hunting ground. Now it holds a funfair in the western end of the park with the famous ferris wheel (see photos). Then Becky and I went to Cafe Demel, another famous kaffeehaus to do our homework. I ordered a Grosser Brauner which is a large expresso with schlagobers (whipped cream). Today, Becky and I found out that we got the teach...

On Friday my German class went on a field trip to a very nice kaffeehaus called the Palmenhaus to practice our ordering skills. It was nice because the school paid for us to get a free coffee and pastry of our choice. So I ordered the most expensive coffee on the menu called Kaffee Coretto. I wasn't sure what it was but I figured it would be good. When they brought it to me, they gave me a tiny shot of expresso and a huge glass of rum. I wasn't sure what to do wi...

Today I had my music audition but it didn't go so well because as soon as I got up to the stage my reed cracked and I couldn't play. So I asked to re-audition on tuesday. But it's ok because it gives me more time to prepare. When I took the U-bahn back to my apartment after my audition, there was a protest going on against a political party (see photo of stage). I wasn't exactly sure what was going on but it was interesting and there were a lot of tv stations f...