Lets all drop a few letters

Because I am a little disorganised, and a lot lazy, we will start my little adventure to Austria on day eight.
But first, I will fill you in on the details of my last crazy, exciting, strange and a little sad, week.

Date unknown. Adelaide, Australia
This story really starts two years ago, when my sister travelled to Italy for a short exchange. I was so jealous of her that I decided then and there to do the same, but to a more exotic place, such as South Africa, Mexico or even Spain. After a few set backs and re-considerations, I ended up in tiny, tiny Austria, where everything is less than an hour away.

23rd Jan, 2010. The Airport
Is it bad that I forgot to be sad when I left everyone? Sure I was a little scared, and very tired after a sleepless night, but in the excitement of packing and leaving, being sad wasnt really on my mind. It still isn't.

On the plane
Four movies watched on the way to Bangkok. A long, boring pointless amount of time spent on my butt, staring at the tiniest of screens. No movies watched from Bangkok to Frankfurt...there was no TV. 11 hours of staring at the back of another persons chair just inches from my face, as they lay back for their comfort, and to my absolute annoyance. But what can you say to the fat snoring man in front of you?
Isle seats are great. Stretch out your legs every now and again, get hit in the head, the elbow, the knee, the eye everytime they push that oversized trolley of tasteless food down the undersized isle.
But really, it wasnt that bad.

Frankfurt
Sitting inside in the warm comfortable airport was such a relief. The ability to move whenever we want is one we forget, until we have an 11 hour plane ride.
The horror of getting on the next flight was easily forgotten, becasue outside of the plane window was snow. Beautiful, beautiful snow. Now remember, before this, I had never seen snow.

24th Jan 2010 Meeting the family
I was so so so excited to meet the family, that I forgot all of my fears. The hour long car ride home wasnt bad at all, with jokes shared between me and my host dad, and lots of conversation between my host mum and sister (in english of course)
To my surprise, we didnt go straight home, instead we went to germany, for pizza with austrian salami in a real italian restaurant. The closeness of everything still amazes me

25th Jan to 29th Jan. School
Not much to say here, I dont understand anything, have a great class with very happy people and do six lessons a day, four of which I have never done in Australia...

29th of Jan. Clubbing in Germany and Austria
Now this was a real culture shock. The club we went to was a little insane. It was ditry and dingy, with sticky tables around the edges, and people smoking everywhere (something I have to become used to here), three bars, and jam packed with people. In the middle was a tiny dance floor, with four full sized electric light palm trees on the corners, and two pole dancing poles on seperate blocks on the edges. This was where we spent most of the night.
One challenge in the diary completed, just for you to know.

30th Jan 2010. Snowboarding
This actually isnt too hard. The only difficulty i had with snow boarding was learning to stop. Most of the time was spent on my butt. It sure got cold. Once, I tried (not on purpose) to make a human snowball of myself. I dont really remember doing it at all (so i think i might have knocked myself out) but apparently, or so the story goes, I went head over heels, twice in a row. Now, I have quite a large bump on my chin, and a lot of bruises on my back, elbow and chin. Gah, stupid snow.

Nothing happens on sundays here.

I think this post is long enough, so maybe I will do todays events seperately.

I love Austria though. The snow, the cute pink, yellow and green towns, and the ever smiling people.

How about you all drop a few letters and go from Australia to Austria sometime?