I went to a concert with the choir I sing in to watch a group that does songs from the Comedian Harmonists, which was a famous group in Germany in the 1930s. They sang popular music with a comedic twist and were one of the most beloved groups in Germany (and internationally) before they were forced to break up by the Nazis (3 of the 6 were Jewish). Sad story, but some really wonderful music.
More excitingly, I turned 21 on June 23rd, and the weekend before I had a little reunion with Kate and Courtney to celebrate!!!!
We met on Saturday in Salzburg, Austria and went on the Sound of Music tour. It was not quite all it was cracked up to be, but was fun nevertheless. It was neat to get to see the different sites in real life, and it was actually pretty nice that the guide threw in some unrelated Salzburg history in between the sites, so we got a little bit of a city tour as well. The tour also included driving up into the Alps and stopping for coffee (read: hot chocolate) at a cafe with a breathtaking view, while on the way to the town nearby that houses the wedding church from the movie. Part of the damper was probably that we were with this older couple that was asking really strange and irrelevant questions (such as: Do the Germans have a theory as to why Hitler was so evil? seriously.) But we had a lot of fun with it just from being together! Not to mention the cool pictures!
After the tour we hung around for about an hour, I bought a postcard, we had dinner, and then hopped on the train to go back to Vienna (where they live). Happily, Kate's roommate was out this weekend again, so once again I got the chance to stay with a friend--fun AND free! So even though we were insanely tired when we got back, we stayed up until like 2am chatting. It was so wonderful to see them again, and hanging out was as natural as if we'd been together all along! I really hope we can keep in touch even after getting back to the States.
The next day we met up with Courtney and another of their friends, Heidi, and we went to a clock museum (which was free on Sunday, how cool is that?!). Then we walked around for a bit, went to the Esperanto Museum (Esperanto is a created language that was intended to be a "universal" language) and a globe museum. Yes, they are random, but it was pretty neat!
After that we went to Cafe Central (Vienna's most famous cafe, and where the "Viennese coffee culture" got started), which was really fancy and beautiful, and of which I stupidly took no pictures. :( Anyway, since we are poor college students we split slices of cake and drank water, haha, but we had cake at Cafe Central!!!
We later went back to Kate's (Kate, Courtney, and I) for a girls' night. We got big greasy pizzas (yum!) which surprisingly came with free cokes, then intended to watch a movie, as I had brought 4 on a flash drive to choose from. Unfortunately Kate has a Mac, and it kind of threw a fit because the movies came from a Windows computer, so we couldn't get the movie to play. But we talked and laughed for a couple hours and eventually went to bed (well, Courtney went home and then we assume she went to bed, haha).
It was kind of gross and rainy on Monday (ALL day), so we didn't do all that much. Got lunch at a little schnitzel place (local specialty!), but later that evening we did go out for my birthday! We went to LOCO, a bar/club (duh, turning 21!), where the 3 of us had cocktails (don't worry, not too many!) and had fun in our little corner booth. Some weird guys sent us drinks (we think it was grapefruit juice, lol), but thankfully didn't come try to talk to us or anything. Makes for a fun story though! Anyway, then we went home a little early (by 9, so no worries about me partying all night ;) ) because I had to get up a little early for my flight in the morning--which I made, by the way.
Here's Courtney and me at LOCO:
So yeah, that was my lovely weekend-before-my-birthday birthday celebration! The great part was getting to hang out with those girls again; I guess some people you just become great friends with almost immediately!
Oh, and I forgot to mention: We went to a burrito place where they sell DR. PEPPER!!! I have missed it, and I was really excited!
Anyway, that should cover everything up to now! I am going to keep updated better as my semester comes to a close, and it should be pretty intense: Barcelona this weekend, Dresden next weekend, my choir concert, then Paris, then getting ready to come home!! So, more to come after I come back from the sunny beaches of Barcelona!
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