Orientation Day!

Today was very fun. I had breakfast with Frau Thierry that was super yummy bread with even better cheese. Seriously, if I could just have that directly mailed to my door every day I’d be a pretty happy girl. After that I headed down to meet with our group at 10:00. I was a little late because I made the wrong turn out of the subway—oops!

After orientation, we had lunch in this really cool restaurant. I tried the Wurstplatter, which was really good, though I couldn’t finish all of it! After that Morgan, Courtney, and I chilled out and bounced around Vienna on the metro. Most of the things were really expensive (9€ for a ride on the Farris wheel?!), and we found ourself in the supermarket. 

We had a good view of the kitchen from our seats. 

Morgan and Courtney in the super awesome resturaunt

One thing that realized that I love is mineral water. I ended up buying a big bottle of some for ,75€. I think my favorite version is the “prickelnd” (sparkling). I also got this really yummy energy drink, "Wild Dragon". It's on sale, and I'm wondering about how much I can bring back with me...

I was determined to get Muffi in the picture as well, since she looked so cute. 

Because Courtney picked up some refrigerated items, and we all wanted to rest our feet/wash the sweat off of ourselves, we split ways for a while and agreed to meet at 7:30 for dinner.

Due to a slight delay on their side, I ended up waiting for a bit at the meet up place. I also ended up getting tickets to the opera tomorrow, and with a discounted price. It was great. They show up, and we went to a place called “Mama’s Kitchen-Authentic Vienna” (or something close to that). At the end we weren’t entirely sure how to get our checks. We knew what to say, but we were not able to get eye contact with our waiter like in the US. I finally had to wave him over to us, since they were closing down.

When I got back to the house, my Host-mother left me a present of cherries and a peach. I can now say that I'm a HUGE fan of cherries (and peaches, but I already knew I liked them). I would post a picture, but I ate them too quickly, haha. 

Here, have a picture of a museum I want to visit instead. 

Overall, I’d say today was a great success. Tomorrow is the Opera/Ballet, and hopefully I’ll look into getting tickets to a concert that’s playing in July. By the way, I’m blown away at how many concerts are here every night.