Weekend Roundup

Okay, let me catch up here...its been a little while since my last post.

Last weekend: Pub Crawl on Friday night-all of the international students sent out into the city with the goal of making it to a number of pubs around Linz...I probably don't need to go into more detail than to say it was quite crazy but very fun. Last Saturday and Sunday were slow to say the least. Everyone (including myself) was a little tired from the pub crawl...not too much going on.

Monday: should have had a class on Monday, but I didn't have to go because the University had a welcome dinner for all of the international students followed by a party in the bar on campus. The dinner was great...good food, speakers, traditional Austrian Dancers...you know, the usual. The after party was fun as well. It was pretty much just the international students and our mentors so, same old crowd in a new location. We played some...interesting games that the mentors planned. They were pretty much the kinda games you would play at an 8 year old's birthday party (relay race where you have to spin around while running, balloon popping game), but modified for older people. It was pretty funny.

Tuesday: still no classes...life abroad is good. My roommate finally moved in! Her name is Andrea and she is from Slovakia. She is a law student and this is here second semester abroad. She goes to school in Prague normally, and get this, her boy friend goes to school at the same school Rachel is at! She has offered to take me to Brno sometime when she goes to visit him. So far, she is very nice and I think it is going to be easy living with her. The only problem is that now there are three people sharing the bathroom which gets a little hard some mornings.

Wednesday: My first real classes of the semester. At noon I had Introduction to International Business which I think is actually going to be an interesting class. I have never had a business class in my life, so some things are a little foreign to me. I am trying really had not to believe that business classes are just classes in how to become The Man, but so far they are not making it easy for me. I guess my anthropology and biology classes have just trained me to look at the world in a different way than business classes do. The best part of Wednesday: my friend Jamie says that she is supposed to go to Munich this weekend to meet someone from home, but the person she was going to travel with backed out at the last minute. So, I volunteered to come along! We got our train tickets and I suddenly had big plans for the weekend. Okay, I think I will stop here for now and actually leave my Munich trip for a later post to come soon. I actually have some homework to do today and should probably work on that for a while.