Guten Tag!

A few of us went wandering around before lunch. We crossed the river and ran into the marionette theater. They had a performance of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) at 2 (14:00). The five of us were able to get student tickets for 18 Euros. We walked back to the college for lunch and arrived a bit early. Lunch was breaded catfish. We wanted to eat quickly because our lunch is at 13:15. It took forever for the waitress to bring out dessert (most days you get it as soon as you’re done with the meal). We didn’t want to miss dessert because they’re always so good and because the Austrians hate to waste food. As it was, a few didn’t come to lunch because it’s Friday and we didn’t have any afternoon classes. We were about to leave and head over to the theater when it was brought out.

As it turned out, 6 others joined us for the marionette Die Zauberflöte. We just made it to the theater in time for everyone else to buy their tickets and to get to our seats. The performance was interesting. The story line was there, but they cut out all the best arias (actually just about all the arias) and only kept the Papageno/ Papagena duet. They managed to complete the entire opera in just over an hour. They had supertitles in a few languages, but it wasn’t of the lyrics, it was just a one to two sentence of what was happening.

After the “opera” we girls went to Europark to walk around. We went to the “Bag Store” because a couple wanted new backpacks. There we ran into one of the boys, Ian. The six of us walked around together through Zaro and H&M. (H&M has much better clothes in Europe than in the state). It started raining when we were in the mall. We all ran to the bus. Only two of us had umbrellas so when we got off and had about a 2 block walk, Katie took Ian’s jacket and held it over her head, Megan used her shopping bad, Ian just walked in the rain, Sara and I had small umbrellas and Gwen ran back to school.

I have a couple great pics from this afternoon I’ll add later once I’ve uploaded them to my computer and then have Internet again.

Time to go home for dinner!!
Ciao!