Servus!
Hiiii I just got Internet today! I'm actually using an Internet stick so we'll see how long this works out for. Feldkirchen is quite charming. It's quite small but I think I'll enjoy living here and having the opportunity to socialize with all ages (unfortunately less of my own age since most students go back to Uni in Vienna, Graz, oder Salzburg, etc). With that said, I'm really looking forward to my conference I will be having in Hinterglemm this upcoming weekend so I can meet other students in the Kaernten area. I'll also be making plenty of trips to nearby Villach and Klagenfurt to be with the assistants there as well!
Although I've really just been here a couple days, I can already say I have already dived into the culture! The head english teacher picked me up from the Klagenfurt airport and took me straight away to her home in Feldkirchen to eat Gulasch Suppe and Apfel Strudl....yum! I must say though...their dialect is so difficult to understand! haha I'll just have to get used to it.
The day after the same family invited me over again for Mittagessen, the main meal of the day, we had Risotto. Then they asked if I would like to go mushroom picking (schwarmmel?...i forget the spelling) with their son and his girlfriend or go with them to their friends house where he has his art gallery. I chose the latter, mainly because it was harder to understand the 21year olds. Since they don’t speak much of high german around me, I was being quiet enough. The art was great though! The man's home is situated higher up on one of the tall hills in the area...the art consisted of sculpture and oil painting which was very color, religious, and expressive. They also offered coffee, wine, beer, and Himbeer Kuchen (raspberry torte/cake)! It was pretty neat. I loved that you could also smell the cows that were surrounded their home. They had a huge St. Bernard as well.
Today I did all of the necessary duties of a new Auslaender...new bank account, registering with the city, etc. I have this really cool Austrian Ausweis, identification, now!! I feel so European ;) After all of the going back and forth today, I took a break and went home to where I live with the Greschitz couple. I live right above them in their home. Die Frau, Inge, lets me pick her grapes, raspberries, and apples!! I'm in heaven haha. Seriously though, the grapes taste like no grape I’ve ever had before...you know that rich taste you have from drinking grape juice? It’s actually exists…who would’ve thought! Austria in particular is known to be one of the most organic countries in the world. My old professor said they often rank #1. After that I went wandern-hiking trying to try and explore. There's a path behind the school I tried to discover. I may have found it.
Otherwise, the weather has been great since the day of my arrival! It gets really chilly at night as the day turns out to be gorgeous….at least for this week. It already feels like Texas winter her in Austria!
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