Monthly Archives: November 2010

Christmas Market

Today, we went to a playground to take some pictures and video.  They will be up soon.  We also went to the Christmas Market that opened today.  There were tons of little crafty christmasy things, nativity scenes, and Glühwein.  Glühwein is a sort of hot, spiced, red wine.  Will liked it, and he doesn’t really […]

Darn It

Today was a very… domestic, day for me. I did the laundry, took out the trash, and vacuumed. That wasn’t the worst part though. Today I actually darned a sock: After that, I really did darn a sock. It’s not pretty, but it’ll get the job done. I’ve always wanted to do that (for some […]

Making Comments

I thought it might be nice if I repeated the instructions for signing up so  you can make comments.  We’d love to hear from you!  Go all the way down to the bottom of the page and click “Further Information” on the right.  More links will appear.  Click register way on the bottom.  Fill in […]

Walkin’ the Dog

Today in class, I sat next to one of the students, Michael, and he started talking to me in German (a no no).  Anyway, he was so easy to understand, I new he couldn’t be a native Austrian.  Turns out he’s actually from Thüringen,  which is a state in the middle of Germany.   He […]

Payday

Most of the English assistants got paid today (including me).  We had a little get together with the other English assistants to celebrate our new found wealth.  There were fancy hors d’oeuvres like caviar with cream cheese on crackers, pears and blue cheese wrapped with prosciutto (a kind of really thinly sliced ham).  As well […]

Museum Day Photos

This is kind of an appendix post for Mary Jo’s Class and Museums. Going from the Lentos to the castle, we found a chicken-woman statue. Also, something I’ve noticed a lot of around here: there are a ton of grounding wires. Most homes in the states have them, I think, but here they are everywhere, […]

Class and Museums

On Friday morning, I covered for one of the teachers for an hour and a half class.  It was fun.  The class is “Foundations of Teaching English.”  The teacher said I could do whatever I want, so I showed them some games they can play with their students in their English classes, and we had […]

Miscellaneous Post

This is kind of a mish-mash post, so we’ll just dive right in with a picture of the ARS Electronica center the other night: Kinda creepy. it was all foggy, so it had this weird glow it doesn’t have on clear nights. Next, we have an observation of Austrian culture. You know how in the […]

Schnittkäse

The cheese of the day is probably called Schnittkäse. It is probably also referred to as Innperle Tomate/Basilikum. It’s another cheese you find the the “specialty” section of the grocery store. As you might have been able to guess from the title, it has tomato and basil mixed in. The cheese itself is a fairly […]

Bread Ring

The other day, in a hunt for shoe laces, we went to a different grocery store called Merkur. It’s kind of like a smaller version of Interspar, but much closer. During our looking abouts and food shoppings, we found some neat looking bread, so we bought it. I was instantly enamored with the bread ring, […]