Heute gehen wir in den Bergen wandern! This morning we all woke up and went to IKI for interviews and class placement. I was super nervous for mine and I thought that I did horribly afterward. But then I ended up placing into A2.2 which is beginning second year Deutsch! I’m kinda scared now because I don’t know if I’ll know enough but oh well. Class starts tomorrow! From my classroom I can see the Opera House and the steeple on St. Stephen’s.
After we finished the placement tests Sophie, Winona, Mark, Anna, and I went to Café Prückel and had some coffee. I had another Milange and it was good, but it’s getting a little expensive so I don’t know how much more I will go out. Then we went and walked around the Stadt Park.
At 2 we all me back at IKI and met Brigette, our IKI liaison and took a bus to the outer city. We spent like 2 hours climbing a crazy hill and by the end we were all dying and sweaty and gross. But it was so beautiful you could kinda forget about being all gross. We wandered around several vineyards and cute little country houses and ended up on the top of this huge hill that over looked all of Vienna and even parts of Slovakia. It was gorgeous. I took a lot of really gross pictures of myself all sweaty and stuff J The view was totally worth the long long long trek to get there. We all made fun of our wandern in den Bergen. We all felt really out of shape because we kept seeing old couples walking back down the steep trail we were on. We were like “if they could get up here, so can we!” It turns out you can totally drive up the other side!! On the way back down we criss-crossed through the Weinerwald (Viennese woods). It was absolutely gorgeous. All the trees were bare but somehow it felt prettier that way. The path was all dirt with large stones scattered everywhere.
Nearly at the bottom we stopped with our professors at a Heuriger with a tree branch tied to its lamp post to signify new wine. We drink liter after liter after liter of Geweislt, Riesling, and bier. Pretty much our whole table was smashed! It was great because we were all speaking drunk German and we were actually pretty good! Well everyone else is good anyways, but I was actually keeping up! Some of the old ladies with us kept telling me stories in German, so I just had to laugh and say “Ah, ja!” and laugh a lot. There was a cute older man with us who taught us lots of drinking songs! I remember there being a cat that Sofie and I kept trying to pet. It was cute.
We had to pretty much stumble our way down the rest of the mountain. I’m sure we were really annoying to all of the old Austrian men we passed on the way down, but we were having lots of fun. I pretty much clung to Anna and Mark to get all the way down. Which reminds me, Myles promised me a piggy back ride that I never got. Lame. Well tomorrow is my first day of class. Gute Nacht!
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