my mind is overflowing right now with all of the culture i have been exposed to today and my entire homestay experience. there is way too much to tell on just one blog. Today i woke up early and went to the supermarket with tina and Hans (homestay family) and they had never tried peanut butter before so they bought that and tried it like a sandwich-i think they liked it. lol. this morning for breakfast they gave me a hard boiled egg with the shell still on it...little did i know i wasnt supposed to peal the entire shell off, instead only the top and spoon out the rest...so they thought that was very funny. also they thought it was funny that i dont eat the yellow stuff (that was still liquid) inside the egg. they are learning a lot about Americans as we are learning a lot about them...so cool. then tina, elise, and i made weiner shnitzel for lunch and also apfel strudel...very good...wish i could bring some home to you all. :) then we went to watch some volleyball matches...but it wasnt professional or anything-just people who wanted to play for fun. OMG then we went speed gliding down a mountain...WOW definite highlight of my trip-you were in this bobsled thing and pulled up the mountain on this track, then you just slide down on the track-i think it goes up past 45 mph -wow that was SOOOO fun. Then Tinas parents picked us up and we went strawberry picking. Then Regina (mom) took me to church-ok that was a bigger highlight of my trip so far. it was amazing. of course i didnt understand anything because they spoke german but the mass was pretty much exactly the same Catholic mass that i attend at home...so it was cool i knew which prayers they were saying and stuff...so i said them in english. :) then i experienced more austrian culture later this evening and overall it was a super day-i am going to really miss Austria-if i could go back to one place it probably would be here. My homestay family is so nice and the people here seem nice too...and of course it is a beautiful place to live... the only thing that bothers me is that everyone smokes (luckily not my hostfamily)...but everyone else does. its part of their culture i guess. i am learning a ton!!!!!!
tomorrow though i am going to Mauthausen (sp?) ...the concentration camps. Then we have one more day in Austria, and then we are going to Italy!!!!
"Grews Goht"
(God greet/bless you) which you would normally say at the beginning of a conversation but oh well :)
love Emily
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