The Hills are Alive!

My sweet t-shirt from the University of Vienna.
Only picture of the day, sorry :(

Ok, for as long as the last post was, this one is going to be very very short.
Not too much happened today. My class had one of its few sessions in an actual classroom this morning, then Paige, Rachel and I headed to Billa for lunch. The sandwich I have had the last few times at Billa is really good - it a wheat sub that has sesame seeds and some sort of granola-type stuff on the outside, then on the inside is a cream cheese, lettuce, swiss cheese, and apple slices. It sounds weird, but tastes delicious. After lunch we talked to Doc about our upcoming free weekend - I think a group of us are going to Salzburg, Austria (a 3 hour bus ride from Vienna) for the day on Saturday. Not as extravagant as I had originally planned, but it will still be a lot of fun. Then the trip of the day happened. I went to a district of Vienna that I haven't been in yet with a group of 4 girls to go to the University of Vienna Bookstore to get t-shirts. We were heading towards an escalator across the U station, when one of us noticed a flight of stairs in the other direction. We decided to go up that way instead. That wasn't the greatest idea ever. We spent the next hour wandering around, and when we finally were on Uni's campus (which was really pretty), after visiting 3 actual book stores we were told to head back in the direction we came from to the "old part of campus" a few blocks away. When we thought we got there, we found yet another bookstore that didn't have what we wanted. We were all getting really frustrated and decided to head back. As we were getting ready to cross the street to the station, one of the girls saw "Universitat Wien" flags, and within five minutes we were at the bookstore trying on the 9 euro t-shirts. It was a grand total of two minutes away from our stop! Ahh - at least we have the shirts now. After that we headed home for a quick nap then off to the Folkoper (another opera house) for the Sound of Music!! It was amazing. They had English subtitles that were a little messed up, but it was still really good and little Gretel was PRECIOUS!! At the end, they had the whole audience sing Edelweiss together - it was so much fun! Then we hopped on a brand new (!) U car to take us home.

Random things I have experienced:

• While at the opera, I had standing room tickets, but an old couple said I should come sit by them and that I wouldn't get in trouble. I ended up talking to them about the Eurocup, football and ice hockey in the US, the history of the Von Trapp family, among other things. The woman on the other side of me was from Salzburg and insisted that I go there so I could see where it all happened - it was really fun talking with them.
• The von Trapp family went to the US after crossing the mountains - I never saw Julie Andrews do that.
• Here's what I remember from the messed up German version of the song "Do-Re-Mi"
• C - like cellophane paper
• D - like the fast D train
• E - like an elephant
• F - like a fluttering flag
• G -
  
• A - like the alphabet
• H - like rose hip tea
• I rode my a streetcar today - my first time traveling through Vienna without using the U!

That's all I have for today, like I said, not much, but I'm starting to settle in more. Have a great rest of Monday and Tuesday - I'll post more soon!

Much love,
Andi