Guten Tag from Vienna!
We have been here four days now and our trip is almost over. The time flew by and we have been super busy, hence the lack of posts here!
How to summarize our myriad adventures: we went to many sites related to the Hapsburg family from the Kunsthistorisches museum (the Louvre of Vienna) to their summer residence called Schonbrunn with a zillion beautiful white and gold Rococco rooms to wander through. On Wednesday we went to Slovakia to visit Bratislava, a town about an hour from Vienna, which has not quite made itself ready for tourists after their "Velvet Divorce" from Czechoslovakia in 1993 and the ending of the communist era in 1989. Perhaps one day it will be as splendid as Prague as it certainly has the ability to do so.
Yesterday we had a special tour of the Theater an der Wien, one of the oldest theaters in Vienna, and some of us visited Sigmund Freud's house as well. Later in the afternoon, we had a "breather" from history and visited the Vienna zoo, one of the oldest in Europe, and with three special Pandas, one baby Panda to awe at. A great break!
An excellent addition to the program has been the cooking aspect. Here in Vienna we have been staying at a hotel that is more of mini apartments with a two-burner stove, a microwave, and frig, and small kitchen. Students have, in small groups, cooked together, a sort of progressive dinner for the past two nights and we've had excellent excellent meals. One of our students will definitely be a pro chef in the future, Mason Awe, and last night he made gumbo from scratch. Delicious delicious!
Okay we are off on our last day's adventure here. More tonight. I am having trouble posting pictures from my IPAD here but I will try to find a regular computer and post more soon!
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