Because today is such a historically significant day, I feel like I should have celebrated it somehow...
It's actually pretty hard to remember that I'm in Austria. In a lot of ways, it's similar to the U.S. The cars aren't that different, although you do see about three times more smart cars and fiats, they drive on the right side of the road (my mother just informed me that the only people who drive on the left side are English, or once ruled by England... Am I the only one who thought it was all of Europe?? Shoes what I know...) however, a main difference is that Europeans don't believe in showering every day like Americans do. Oh well, ways of life!
Church.
Everything is in German, so it's safe to say that I caught maybe one in twenty words..
After church was lunch, and guess what we had?? WEINER SCHNITZEL! It was good :) just like the one the night before.
Anyway, we went to the YsA ward located in Vienna, but I guess it was a big day because it was the opening social or something, and since there were lds youth there from Graz, Salzburg and other places everyone was scoping the field... Trying to find that "other half", you know? Well, since our group was from America, we weren't in the pool. We definitely weren't options, so we weren't spoken to much...
However, after the lunch and everything, we went on a scavenger hunt around the city, and we got to meet some really fun people! There were four girls from ByU in my group, then we had a boy from Taiwan, Kai, that was just visiting, and we had Rachel (pronounced Ra-hell) and Baldur (a couple. Very funny), Stefan, and David. They were super patient with our extremely broken German and our terrible pronunciation, but all of them knew English, so a few minutes after we had gotten past "(in German, of course) hi, my name is Kendal, I have two brothers and a dog. My dad is an engineer and I don't speak much German" we basically dropped it while conversing. I learned a few more words that I don't know if I will use frequently (for instance, they taught us how to say the word for a squirrels tail... I can't spell it, or really remember it for that matter...) but it was a blast to run around the city that they know basically everything about.
Tomorrow is the first day of school!
Wow. School in Austria...
Location:Vienna, Austria
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