Tuesday we had the german course again. Nothing too new or interesting. On Wednesday though, we had our LAST german class. Quite an event, especially now that I don't have to spend four hours a day in a stuffy classroom. During class we watched an Austrian movie parodying star trek and star wars. I don't think the maker could decide on which movie he wanted to parody. After the movie we played a board game to improve our german. It was all about matching up words that would go with different ones, and finding words from a jumble of letters. Afterwards we said our goodbyes. Later in the day, after another history lesson that consisted of doing a sudoku (professional sudoku mind you), we went running again. This time I went with Seth and Rene again, but we took a different route. We went through the same town as last time, but instead of coming straight back, we went across a bridge and then along a river on the way back. This meant running through about 6 inches of snow for 2 miles, which is about as hard as it sounds. When we finally got back on the asphalt, my feet were soaked, but it still felt great running on solid ground. Once we got back inside the park walls, we took the long path around, which was also covered in snow, but trampled on, so there was place to comfortably run. When were about a quarter mile out, the chase was on. I gasped to the end where Rene was stopped, and we lightly jogged in from there. The run lasted about and hour and fifteen minutes. I have no idea how far we actually ran. When I got back I quickly showered because we had plans to see a show that night in Vienna. This wasn't actually just for shiggles, but rather an essay we had to write for a class back at West Point. The show itself though was really cool. It was held in the Volkstheater in downtown Vienna. The play was called "Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti," which roughly means,"Mr. Punitla and his servant Matti." It was about a landowner (Puntila) that struggles with alcoholism and his relationship with his friend and chauffeur Matti. He is always happy-go-lucky when drunk, but penny-pinching and mean when sober. He also struggles with whether to marry his daughter to an Attache, or his friend Matti. Overall it was a good experience, and yet another thing to check off the list of things to say that I've done. It was pretty late when we got back to the academy so I went to bed.
Here's a picture of all the snow. As you can see from the balcony, we got about 8 inches in the past few days.
Today was another work on the paper day. I didn't do much besides that. Between research and writing, I'm about 2/3 of the way done. Ratzi also helped me edit it a little to make the grammar better. He owed me since I helped him with his English homework. The rest of the day was pretty much the same. In the evening Braz, Patrick, Mayr and I went to chen's cooking, a great asian food buffet where I ate entirely too much. My last weekend here will consist of writing this paper due next week and studying for the "final exams" on monday, tuesday and thursday. I'm sure there will be going away parties during the week though, so there's no need for me to fret about a lost weekend. Until next time then. And for those keeping track: yes, only 8 days until my return.
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