Monthly Archives: April 2011

Beginning of the Week

Mary Jo’s parents are here! They flew in on Sunday evening. It’s now Tuesday. We have been doing stuff, but in unual Mary Jo and Will fashion, we haven’t been blogging. Expect some sort of big post later… like next weekend. Today begins our traveling around the country, so there’s going to be a lot […]

Differences

Spring Walk

We’ve been having some pretty nice weather around here lately, so on Tuesday we decided to take a little walk down south to a cemetery. I know, I know, creepy. Before we get to that, we wanted to show you a neat tree near where we live. From far off it looks fairly normal. Then […]

Update

Only a few things to report.  On Saturday, we went to a barbecue picnic thing behind the building as a celebration of a friend’s birthday.  The weather was nice and the food was decent.  We made ham pickle creamcheese rolls, which most people thought were odd, except for those from Wisconsin or Minnesota.  Everyone decided […]

Michael und Sabine

When I learned German in high school, it was all based around little stories about these two young people named Michael und Sabine.  They would do things related to the vocabulary and cultural items that people learn when they learn German.  For example, we learn about their families, they go out to eat, do chores, […]

Jenna in Vienna

You can thank Mary Jo for that title. I didn’t even realize that rhymed until she mentioned it… Anyway! We got an email from our college friend Jenna that she was going to be in Vienna for a few days. Despite the busy schedule for that week, we planned time. We left Linz right after […]