Salzburg

Last Saturday I accompanied the boys and Charlotta and Emma to Salzburg. We had beautiful weather, and a lot of fun. I am going to post more photographs in a day or so. I hope you enjoy these.



Dog and girl.

Part of "Unforced-Relationships". This photograph would be so much stronger if there wasn't that HUGE block of sun in the upper right hand corner.







A family in a square in Salzburg.














This reminded me of the arch that Maria and the Von-Trap Children run through... Cliche, cliche, cliche... so shoot me.



This was in a park in Salzburg, and part of an "Un-forced Relationship" small project I did.


The Austrians Prune their trees to the extreme... But the result is that in the spring they are beautiful!

















The patterns that the leave make are really awesome.

Photographs from when My parents were here.

Sandra made a Schwarzwaelderkirschetorte. It was TASTY.


Erich looking over the castle wall down on the Kamp River.


Eva showing my mother how long the snakes are... I think my mom looks really pretty in this photograph.








Mommy, Daddy, and Eva
















Interior of Ruine Schauenstein.




















It was sooooo windy.









Looking down at the Kamp River from the top of Ruine Schauenstein.





interesting hole in the castle tower.





From Left to Right, Robbi (the dog), Erich, Eva, Me, Mommy, Daddy






The Maibaum, or Maypole, going up in Idolsberg.

Eckerd

Just heard from Mr. Keith Gauthier yesterday.

Everything is on track for Eckerd. Apparently my emails got lost in the SPAM FILTER.

No worries.

Es regnet, es regnet...

It is raining today. Blah.

We had four weeks of absolutely stunning, beautiful, warm weather. But alas, it was unseasonably warm and now we have to go back to the dreariness.

I swam in the outdoor pool on Sunday and almost froze to death. I felt very sympathetic for all the victims of the Titanic. I could only stay in the water for 20 minutes because my heart felt like it was going to explode and my teeth started chattering. BUT... afterwards I lay outside in the sun on my towel and soaked in the rays. THAT was nice.

Only 36 days left until I touch down in Washington D.C. and I am really really excited. Now that the end is in sight I am feeling slightly nostalgic about leaving... and also incredibly anxious about the state of the American Economy and lack of jobs, as well as not having heard from Eckerd in the last month after writing two emails AND calling. Grrrrr.

It will be really weird to not be speaking German every day anymore. BUT... the beaaaaaaaaaaach, omg. I can not wait to see the lovely seashore of North Carolina, attach that leash to my ankle and paddle my 9'2" out into the waves. I have been having stress dreams about surfing. Usually my board turns into a spaghetti noodle so that I sink and can't pop-up or paddle because I am trying to float on something that is not incredibly bouyant... Sometimes it turns into a wooden hot pad with holes in it and creases (where you can fold it up to fit in a drawer, see link).

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Usually there is a wall between me and the waves as well. Like literally a Clear wall. In other words, the waves can not reach me, and I can not reach the waves. SO incredibly frustrating.

I have a lot of pictures still on the memory card of my camera, but I have been so lazy ( I blame the rain and my current job neuroses) that I have done nothing with them other than gaze longingly.

Anyway. 4.5 more weeks, 36 days. But who's counting!?!?!??!

PHOTOS!

Bactrian Camels came to Wieselburg for a circus. I tried to make friends with this one, because I think camels are awesome... but I don't think he wanted to be friends with me.



These horses kept biting eachother like this. It was very odd. I think they had itches. It's kind of hard to scratch your back when you are a horse... no opposable thumbs.



Camels loving on eachother.

























Eric's hands and mine.









Eric Campbell came to visit me, and I made him model...




















more hands...
























I'm a little obsessed with hands














Sarah and I took this shot to convince people that it's not always gray and rainy in London!










Guy dancing at the Victoria Tube Station.








Sarah in the only legal grafiti street in London (or so we were told). It's a little flat, and not in focus, but I like it anyway.



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Alliteration to the extreme... notice how unhappy they are.



London Eye... way too expensive, hence the ground shot.









Sarah doesn't like pigeons... but one snuck into this shot. muahahahahhaa












Boy, Cellphone, Jellyfish












The Ray Pool. The rays came up to the surface like this, wanting to play and be touched. We got yelled at though, for sticking our hands in the tank and touching the rays.











Sistine Chapel shot.












Stingray... I am pretty sure they had had their barbs removed.



touching God



Boys reaching



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Boy at the Ray tank





Tube, Moon, Big Ben
























By Sunday we were exhausted

















Museum of Natural History















Classic Telephone Booth shot.

Spring Break

So I now have only 55 days left in Austria and it is both going too fast and not fast enough.

I had an excellent Spring Break. I saw Sarah Campbell for the first time since last July and that made me supremely happy. We wandered around London thoroughly exhausting ourselves in the two and a half days that we had in the city. Pictures will come probably next week.

After London I went to Idolsberg where I celebrated my birthday (am now 23) and worked in the forest with the Webers doing manual labor. It was a lot of fun, and I have decide that I missed my calling as a lumberjack! :-)

I then returned to Wieselburg, mildly suntanned and exhausted. Eric Campbell then arrived to visit me on Monday, and left this morning. We had a lot of fun, hiking, eating Austrian icecream... muahahahah, watching violent movies, and cooking. He left just a few hours ago, on his way to Munich and then back to Paris.

I am currently in the computer lab at school, ready to leave and get out and enjoy probably the last day of sunshine for a week or so. (sad) I am simply grateful for the two full weeks of cloudless sky and 75 ° weather we have had.

My parents will be arriving in exactly a week from today and I CAN NOT WAIT!

I hope all is well back in the states. I am coming home soon.

photos

Peace rally, march against capitalism, racism, sexism, and sexuality preference as well as against the mal-treatment of animals.






























































































































































































































The School where I teach in Wieselburg.






















I was trying to be cool like Edward Weston. This is what happens when you forget you have an onion in your room.