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So im reading through my journal and its a lot of bullshit about my first couple days here and its way too much and too boring, but here is the important things.
A)Julian(16) my host brother and i became good friends and then he left for america...so ein pech. However before he left some important things happened. He listens to the postal service!!!!! When i saw them on his computer i freaked out. It was quite a moment. In fact they listen to a lot of the same music as we do. I found a kid who listens to streetlight manifesto, and one reel big fish. It is not as common, not everybody knows them and stuff, but somone does. Its awesome. In addition they listen to a much wider range of music than we do. Lots of music from all over europe, and a lot of techno, but its good techno, we dont really have much like it in the states. The music in the clubs is also a lot better, you can go to a club sit and have a drink with your friends and the music is playing and guess what, its not rap, its not hip hop, and its not r and b, that is impossible to find in morgantown. Good music is played at the L where my friends chill, i heard some led zepplin, red hot chili peppers, Gold finger, franz ferdinand all while drinking beers. So musically, i give austria two thumbs up, but not just for rock and such, but they also have ass loads of classical seeing as how vienna is right there, and ive heard some cool folk music too.
B) THE FOOD HERE IS INCREDIBLE!!!! That doesnt really quite emphasize enough so im going to say it again.
B) THE FOOD HERE IS INCREDIBLE! Im Ernst
Everything here is fresh, in morgantown we have maybe one real bakery, the daily needs, and no one even goes there, well in Linz we have over 100 bakeries. The daily needs is prolly the best example of what a bakery here is like. The bread is all fresh, everywhere, any bread you eat is fresh. Every morning at home we have fresh bread, and pastries and stuff too. The grocery stores are also much smaller here, because they dont really sell bread in bags, and not much meat either, you really buy that usually at the butcher. How Cool!! My mother ´here is an incredible cook, and the food is always good. In restaurants and stuff the food is fresh too, its not shipped in by truck frozen and then heated up and cooked for your eating pleasure, it is local and certainly never frozen. As a result you go to a cafe and there are maybe only 3 or 4 menu items for dinner, yeah thats not a lot to choice from, but all of them are ....yeah you guessed it FRESH. You have to be here and eat it to understand. Oh and cafes, they are everywhere, little cafes and restaurants owned by people and not franchises, and they are just all over the place, its so cool. Austria is very earthy crunchy. Also coffee houses, the only thing we have to compare it to is the blue moose, but they have these on every street and they are always full of people. People of any age will meet for a coffee, or meet at a coffee house and just talk for hours. Austria is said to have an incredible 'coffe house culture' i dont know what that means, but they drink a lot of coffee.
C)Alkohol
There will be more on this later but just a few things. Actually a story, Here a bottle of bier is .5 liters, in america a bottle is .333 liters, well seeing as how we dont use the metric system in the good ole usa i didnt know this so at language camp when we bought a crate....yes beer comes in crates here....its just a big plastic crate full of bottles. and we went down to the lake and drank and swam and had fun for for the 2 hours between evening and mornging language class. Well i thought to myself 2 hours its not a long time and i dont want to be drunk so ill have only 4 beers, at the end of 2 hours thats 2 beers left in me and i will be perfectly fine for class. No problem at all. Well 2 beers here is 3 beers in america, so i accidently had the equivalent of 6 beers, and if you know me thats plenty. My two brasilian friends Victor and Julio drank too much too, but they cant blame the metric system, however beer comes in smaller bottles there too. Also austrian beer is 5.2% and american beer is 4.8%. Well needless to say its hard to read german, but it is even harder to read german when the words keep moving around and you cant remember what paragraph we were on and your brasilian brother keeps poking you and laughing about shrimp or something. I dont think i learned much that day, but i took a hell of a lot of notes, and the next day i found all of them and was like damn, i should do that more often i did so much work and didnt remember it. It all turned out ok though, we were always so goofy and stupid after learning so much german that no one could even tell :) so thats why it pays to act like your 5.
Well this is getting quite long so until later. Also my writing skills are getting worse since i am thinkign in two languages now, so i have to read over it and fix the simple mistakes in english that are not mistakes in german...sometimes i write like a 5 year old. Oh well. Mein deutsch werdt besser jedentag, aber jederman spricht english, so i dont have a problem if i need something.
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Evan
A)Julian(16) my host brother and i became good friends and then he left for america...so ein pech. However before he left some important things happened. He listens to the postal service!!!!! When i saw them on his computer i freaked out. It was quite a moment. In fact they listen to a lot of the same music as we do. I found a kid who listens to streetlight manifesto, and one reel big fish. It is not as common, not everybody knows them and stuff, but somone does. Its awesome. In addition they listen to a much wider range of music than we do. Lots of music from all over europe, and a lot of techno, but its good techno, we dont really have much like it in the states. The music in the clubs is also a lot better, you can go to a club sit and have a drink with your friends and the music is playing and guess what, its not rap, its not hip hop, and its not r and b, that is impossible to find in morgantown. Good music is played at the L where my friends chill, i heard some led zepplin, red hot chili peppers, Gold finger, franz ferdinand all while drinking beers. So musically, i give austria two thumbs up, but not just for rock and such, but they also have ass loads of classical seeing as how vienna is right there, and ive heard some cool folk music too.
B) THE FOOD HERE IS INCREDIBLE!!!! That doesnt really quite emphasize enough so im going to say it again.
B) THE FOOD HERE IS INCREDIBLE! Im Ernst
Everything here is fresh, in morgantown we have maybe one real bakery, the daily needs, and no one even goes there, well in Linz we have over 100 bakeries. The daily needs is prolly the best example of what a bakery here is like. The bread is all fresh, everywhere, any bread you eat is fresh. Every morning at home we have fresh bread, and pastries and stuff too. The grocery stores are also much smaller here, because they dont really sell bread in bags, and not much meat either, you really buy that usually at the butcher. How Cool!! My mother ´here is an incredible cook, and the food is always good. In restaurants and stuff the food is fresh too, its not shipped in by truck frozen and then heated up and cooked for your eating pleasure, it is local and certainly never frozen. As a result you go to a cafe and there are maybe only 3 or 4 menu items for dinner, yeah thats not a lot to choice from, but all of them are ....yeah you guessed it FRESH. You have to be here and eat it to understand. Oh and cafes, they are everywhere, little cafes and restaurants owned by people and not franchises, and they are just all over the place, its so cool. Austria is very earthy crunchy. Also coffee houses, the only thing we have to compare it to is the blue moose, but they have these on every street and they are always full of people. People of any age will meet for a coffee, or meet at a coffee house and just talk for hours. Austria is said to have an incredible 'coffe house culture' i dont know what that means, but they drink a lot of coffee.
C)Alkohol
There will be more on this later but just a few things. Actually a story, Here a bottle of bier is .5 liters, in america a bottle is .333 liters, well seeing as how we dont use the metric system in the good ole usa i didnt know this so at language camp when we bought a crate....yes beer comes in crates here....its just a big plastic crate full of bottles. and we went down to the lake and drank and swam and had fun for for the 2 hours between evening and mornging language class. Well i thought to myself 2 hours its not a long time and i dont want to be drunk so ill have only 4 beers, at the end of 2 hours thats 2 beers left in me and i will be perfectly fine for class. No problem at all. Well 2 beers here is 3 beers in america, so i accidently had the equivalent of 6 beers, and if you know me thats plenty. My two brasilian friends Victor and Julio drank too much too, but they cant blame the metric system, however beer comes in smaller bottles there too. Also austrian beer is 5.2% and american beer is 4.8%. Well needless to say its hard to read german, but it is even harder to read german when the words keep moving around and you cant remember what paragraph we were on and your brasilian brother keeps poking you and laughing about shrimp or something. I dont think i learned much that day, but i took a hell of a lot of notes, and the next day i found all of them and was like damn, i should do that more often i did so much work and didnt remember it. It all turned out ok though, we were always so goofy and stupid after learning so much german that no one could even tell :) so thats why it pays to act like your 5.
Well this is getting quite long so until later. Also my writing skills are getting worse since i am thinkign in two languages now, so i have to read over it and fix the simple mistakes in english that are not mistakes in german...sometimes i write like a 5 year old. Oh well. Mein deutsch werdt besser jedentag, aber jederman spricht english, so i dont have a problem if i need something.
Tschau
Evan