After our delicious Italian feast (courtesy of Belle) on Friday, we headed out to find a club. Here's the thing though: going out in Europe is exactly the same as going out in America. Everyone wants to go somewhere different, people get pissy, drinks are overpriced, and feet always end up hurting. We spent from 10pm to 1am on a quest for fun.
THANKFULLY, my friend Travis introduced me to his friend Lucas who lives in Vienna (born and raised). So by 1am I got my shit together and finally thought to text him and ask him where to go. Me, Julia, Sarah, and Katy then spent the next hour dancing our asses off in the most BADASS club I have ever seen. They had a smoke machine and a live drummer at one point! The DJ was amazing and the music was perfect (unlike the club we went to before that that was playing all R&B and 90s pop songs). We were sweaty and happy and it was a spectacular start to a partying career here in Austria.
Belle's feast
The drummer at "Lutz" (the club we went to).
Saturday it was DEFINITELY hard to wake up, but we got up early and went to an information session about Wien, followed by a 3 hour bus tour. It was actually really, really cool. The information session was extremely informative and felt like a mini History channel special (I know, I'M A NERD AND I LOVE IT). On the tour we went all through the city and even to the outskirts of it where we saw the vineyards and beautiful rolling hills. We saw landmarks and famous buildings as well as the new and modern side of things. The only downside was that the tour took place at the most AWKWARD TIME (12-3pm) and so for the entire last hour of it Matt and I could think of nothing but Kebap. Which we promptly RAN to (no exaggeration here) immediately after the tour ended.
Here are a few purdy shots from the bus tour:
Then, over the course of the next hour, winter came. It literally dropped 20 degrees and the wind decided it was going to try its best to fuck as much shit up as possible. There were a few times I actually thought I might get swept away!
And then the rain came. Sad times were had by all. Thankfully, the Naschmarkt doesn't let a little rain get in its way, so a bunch of us sweatered up and went out for some delicious chinese food. Afterwards, Sarah and I decided to just go home and veg out since we were so exhausted from the night before. And besides, I love cozy evenings in when it's raining.
Sarah pretending she knows how to use chopsticks
Sunday was a textbook definition of a Sunday. We slept in, cleaned, took out the trash, painted nails, did laundry, read, and sat a fair amount. Richard came over and Sarah and I fed him lunch. Julia, Katy, and I met up to go to a yoga class that I found online, only to find out that the studio is closed until September! So instead we took a leisurely walk to the Rathaus and made it there in time to get yummy Greek food and see Carmen! It was pretty hilarious to see an opera in French with German subtitles. If the part of my brain controlling languages wasn't fucked enough, after last night it is off-kilter beyond repair.
So then we get to today, which begins our second week here in the city. After our morning German class, Julia and I came back to my apartment and we did a yoga podcast by my favorite teacher ever, Alanna Kaivalya. It was really calming and centering and just what we both needed. See, yoga will always prevail, even when you can't get to a studio!
Tonight there's apparently a swing dancing event outside somewhere which I'm TOTALLY stoked about (except for the fact that I know nothing about swing dancing, but that's just a minor detail). Ray Charles is also playing at the film festival so I have many wonderful options for a great evening out. The rest of the week is pretty much the same, with German every morning and orientation sessions in the afternoon on stuff like my music courses, the 9-day trip to Prague, Budapest, and Krakow that's coming up, etc. The weather is supposed to stay in the 70s all week which will be a well deserved break from the 90+ degree weather we've been having. Maybe I won't have to shower like eight times a day anymore!
That's enough rambling for now, maybe I'll go the the grocery store and play eenie-meenie-miney-moe at the deli counter.
Auf Wiedersehen!
Did you go swing dancing?!? You have to tell me all about it!
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