Realtime post

So....

The intensive German period is almost over, with our oral tomorrow and written final Friday. It's been enjoyable, and the weather save for rain the first week has been gorgeous. I've done a lot of studying or pleasure-reading outside, exploring random parts of the city (but I can never do enough of that). Yesterday Tara (my roommate) and I got on a train and rode it to the end to Nussdorf, where there are lots of heuriges, or winehouses. It is the season for a Viennese favorite, Sturm, which is new wine that is partially fermented and therefore very sweet but more alcoholic than you realize. I haven't spent much time inside of museums because it's been so nice out and I'm waiting for my museum pass that comes with my history class.

Break begins Friday after the final. I've got a sit-down ticket to Wagner's Lohengrin, which is 4.5 hours long. Saturday I'll take the bus to the Bratislava airport and go to Croatia (except that I was really dumb and waited too long to buy the ticket and even from last night to just now it's gone up another 10 euro, dumb dumb me), where I'll hang out in Split and/or the islands for a while until I get bored and decide to take the train up through Bosnia to Zagreb (Croatia again). Then I'll go up to Slovenia, particularly the coast and Julian Alps region, and hike and perhaps look at caves and former Italian seaports and such. Then a series of trains back to Vienna. I've bought a 20 euro card that gives me a 50% off discount on trains in Austria and 25% off in/to surrounding countries, making me question whether or not my Eurail pass was actually a good deal, but alas what is done is done.

I'm a bit nervous because the MA primarly election falls while I'll be traveling, and I don't know how available the internet will be for me to anxiously follow results or more like it curse the lack of non-televised results.

Alright I ought to go somewhere nice (perhaps the Schoenbrun) and study...