BIG NEWS

Ok so my family already knows this and quite a few other people and if you'd rather hear it from me than from my blog than you than you should talk to me more.

So as you may or may not be aware of I've been trying to get into school here and thought that I wouldnt hear from the school until the end of the month but when I got back from vacation I had a letter from the university and I got in! and into the program I wanted! So now Im a Anglistik major and Germanistik minor. Im going to take german for a semester to make sure Im up to scruff

I also went and processed my insurance and signed up for german classes and I have an appointment to get a visa in 2 weeks wish me luck that all goes well.

I love this comic.

Oh what a world we live in

Ok so just got back from another great vacation! First we went to Verona--town made famous by the tale of romeo and juliet, they have a house there that they call the house of juliet which has a statue of her and it's supposed to be lucky to touch her boob and since she's made of bronze this means her boobs are really shiny. We also had some great Italian food there and then the next night we saw aida in the arena there which is a lot like the roman Colosseum except its a bit smaller and in much better shape. The opera was really long which means it was hard for me to sit through but it was really beautiful and also it was a good thing that we read a synopsis of the opera before we watched it or I would have had no idea what was going on since it was in Italian.

While in Verona we made a couple of side trips the first to gardaland which is a theme park here and surprisingly it had several very fun rollercoasters it was a bit hot out but that was nice since its not ever very hot here in Germany. Then we also took an hour trip up to Venice!! it was fun we took the ferry on the water and got far far too many masks but they are really fun and most of them are for other people...ok well half of them are for other people. The only problem is in our attempt to find an italian soda we came across some not so good drinks. Venice was just so neat since even though its quite touristy but thats because its just so different from any other city in the world the only thing I would say is dont go on a gondala no we didnt but basically what it looked like was a really expensive boat taxi.

Then we taveled onto Vienna! after sitting in some awful traffic we got there and had a great time. We went to some very good restaurants had some amazing deserts (gah mohr in hemd--favorite!) and we went to all of my favorite places hundertwasser haus, the naschmarkt, the ring, schonbrunn and we even passed by where I used to live. By the end of the trip we were both really tired and then got to make the 6 hour drive home and then went out to dinner with some frends for one of our friends birthday. Also when I got home I got some great news that I will tell you about later :)