Thanksgiving in Austria!

Hai all! 

Thanksgiving, as you might know, is not celebrated in Austria. But right now I feel as though I couldn't have celebrated thanksgiving any much more better than I did these past two days.

I'll tell you about it.

on the 22nd I hung out with a bunch of American exchange students in a German course, then afterwards I was suppose to meet up with some more friends and prance around Vienna for a couple more hours. It was a little harder to find these peeps as I had thought, so I wandered aimlessly through the streets of Vienna (it is so pretty at night) and came apon Cafe Central. 

OMGAELFAKLJH 

it's really pretty.

and kind of expensive.

but I thought, hey, it's thanksgiving. why not? So I ordered a whopping big slice of Apfel Strudel and a kleiner Kaffee, sat down with my Pooh Bear book and read. 

On the way home I came across this wicked cool dude named Flo on the train, he had the craziest dreadlocks and just seemed so chill with the world. raaasssttaaa sstttyyyllleee 

I must say, I was a little intimadated at first because when random men come up to me and start in on conversations, I am trained to try to ignore them because they will probably rape me. I need to stop doing this because the stories that come out of these random people on the train are fantasticly inspirational and they probably wont rape me. Anyway He works in a firm for people with mental disorders and loves it, he has a deep appreciation for music and art... anyway, he was rad and heard my story, too. And. was interrested in it. whoooaaaa....

then I skyped with my family! and it was a lovely surprise because it wasn't just mums and pops and sister, it was mums and pops and sister and cousin and cousin and aunt and aunt and uncle and aunt and cousin and baby cousin and uncle and cousin and VICKY LI (my dear exchange student from 3 years ago) and bird and turkey and the WHOLE GANG! (well, not the whooollle gang, we were missing those from the mid to western side of the country...) oh and friend and friend. I love them!

Today we had another thanksgiving! but this one involved real food, not just a video of my dad's super professionally fried turkey. I chilled with my Host aunt, Oma and Opa, organized a slideshow of pictures, talked and talked about family history, the different dialekts of austria, how my host Opa's grandfather dined with the austiran emperor... it was great! then we ate and it was the best that I could have asked for. I am so fortunent... 

That's ma story! 

luve ya!

oh, and don't forget to read the post that came right before this, it's a new one, too. 

LIEBE GRÜßE

Cleo