Austria!!

haha. vienna was an adventure. i enjoyed it. it is so weird going to a new country every third day with people speaking a different lauguage and eating different foods and acting differently towards you. the people of vienna were not the nicest i've met but i still enjoyed it. haha i will leave it at that.
vienna is a city of music. the first night we arrived we went to a Bach orchestra concert which was really good. i LOVE music so i think that i appreciated it a lot more than most of the others in our group. haha ok so here is how vienna went- our teachers take us into the middle of the city square tuesday morning and give us a 48 hour metro ticket and 30 euros and said we will see ou al thursday morning at 830. dont be late or we will leave you. haha my jaw seriously dropped. i was like what the crap?! haha none of us knew anything about the city. we didn't even have a map. but let me tell you 30 euros plus the money in our pockets and 2 days in vienna opens up endless possibilities. i loved it. we went to this huge cemetery where beethoven is burried along with quite a few other famous musicians. there was also a large section where they burried all the jews and it was a very humbling and sacred place. the part of the cemetery that had been set aside for the jews was SO overfilled and had been vandalized under the direction of hitler and they never went back and fixed it. so they pretty much let it go and it was honestly like a forest in there. but it was VERY very beautiful and i loved the peace that i felt there.
we also went to a few palaces. there was one that had this GIGANTIC garden in the back. it was actually Marie-Antoinette's childhood home. well one of them. but the gardens i swear were at least a square mile and were so beautiful. some day i want to go back there.
i love the food in vienna. i have eaten more in the last three days than i have probably the tow weeks before i came. but it is so worth it haha. the food just keeps gettin better and better. we went to this medieval restaurant and they brought out these huge platters of meat and mashed potatoes and we were directed to eat the food using only our hands. haha it was good and a fun experience. and nelly made her baby crying noise in ther and people were staring and made it totally worth the whol night. haha i'll explain that next paragraph.
we also went to an opera last night. i know an opera in vienna!! haha but im not going to lie it wasn't the best experience. it was in a different language, s owe had to keep looking down at the translator screen so you couldn't watch the opera. and we had to stand so... we left at intermission. haha nobody liked it very much. haha funny story. someone said something negative about the opera, something i will not say on my blog haha, and nelly started laughing so hard that she was crying. and it reminded me EXACTLY of my mom. and then jordan started laughing so hard at nelly that HE was crying. i have honestly never seen him do that. it was so funny. nelly is the funniest lady i hav ever met. she can make this sound that sounds exactly like a crying baby and often does it when we are in concerts/restaurants just to weird people out and i LOVE it. hahahahaha.
well thats vienna. today we went to a place called velden. im not going to lie i think this place might top paris. for those of you who have been to priest lake it is like that but ten times prettier. i know i didn't think it was possible either. i have never seen a more beautiful place in my whole life. we are staying at a "youth hostile" which really isnt like a hostile at all. this place is a camp where kids come in the summer and there is a beautiful lake, canoes, boats, all kinds of sports courts, a pool, biking etc. when we first got here we went swimming in the lake which was awesome and then me, grace, shades, devyn, and caitlyn (two awesome girls i have met on the tour) went and rode bikes into town and all over in the forest for a couple of hours. today had been one of my favorite so far. but im pretty sure i have said that every day haha. well tomorrow is italy! shades is freaking out!! im so hapy to be there with him. i am SO excited for italy. i know its going to be over so soon and im sad but i have loved every moment of europe and am so grateful i have had this opportunity to learn and grow.