Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Only One Week Left!

With only one week left, I have really been wanting better weather but weather really hasn't been cooperating too much. though it has been sunnier, we have only had one full day without any rain (Monday) and I don't like this whole teasing game of it being sunny one minute and then raining five minutes later. The temperature has gone up quite a bit though - it has been in the mid to lower 70's the last few days. So hopefully the trend continues? (I'm crossing my fingers!)
As for the day yesterday, it was still fairly warm and nice outside. I had class in the morning and then grabbed some lunch because my class when to the Arsenal museum in the afternoon to see some interesting historical elements of Austrian history. We first saw the car that Francis Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in during the tour through Sarajevo (in Bosnia). This basically caused the start of WWI. We also saw an exhibit on armored materials and different signs and other memorabilia from WWII in Austria. This part of the exhibit was interesting because it really showed how much control that Hitler had on everyone in Austria, There was even a square that was refereed to as Adolf Hitler Square. Ugh Creepy.
After the museum, Molly and I went home and went to a little bakery by our house that was cheap and SUPER delicious. We got a loft of bread and then some pastries that were so good. We are defiantly going back soon (we are only in Vienna once right?). After that, we went out for a run - one of which where it was sunny but raining on us for about 20 of the 30 minutes we ran. Then we came home and went out to eat downtown with some of the girls. The picture is of Mols and some of our friends but it shows that we got to eat outside in the middle of one of the busy pedestrian streets in Vienna - it was really fun!After dinner, we went out got gelato then walked around the city for a while before all going our separate ways. We got home and just spent the rest of the night finishing up homework and doing laundry.
Today I went for a tour of the Jewish area of Vienna and visited a Synagogue. That was very interesting and the synagogue we went to was the only one to survive the Nazi occupation during WWII. The rest of the day we spent exploring a little, grabbing lunch downtown and then coming back home and talking a walk and exploring our neighborhood in a direction we haven't traveled as well yet.
As of right now - the weather prediction is light rain all day -but I am going to hope for a Michigan weather forecast here and say that it will be wrong and be sunny. I feel like its a little bit of wishful thinking...but oh well - Im desperate for some consistent sunshine!

Until something semi interesting occurs (or just not wanting to do homework...)
Amanda

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