Wednesday in Vienna: classes. They weren't all that interesting, honestly. That night the whole 400 of us went into the city together and sang church songs to the light of candles that we brought. It was pretty cool! I couldn't help but think about the countless hosts of people in centuries past, whose only light at night was the moon and candles.
Thursday was sport and service project day. I'm not really into sports, but I went along anyways. We also had difficulty signing up for a service project, because most of the projects required German language capabilities. Anyways... we all went to a huge park somewhere in Vienna. I don't know where exactly since we took the U-bahn and so forth. I met a lovely girl, Kerstin, who actually spoke to me in German! This is really great because most everybody spoke to us in English. I can speak German well enough, but my friends... well, not so much... So I got to talking to her, and then she had to go to her service project, which was singing and talking to people in a nursing home. I decided to go with her. We went with the group clear to the other side of the city. We sang, of course. Then we were supposed to talk with the old people. I didn't trust myself to speak with the old people, since they most likely speak some sort of dialect that I wouldn't be able to understand. And there were a few too many young people anyway, so everybody had someone to talk to. Another guy decided to refrain from talking for this reason, so we just stayed in the back of the room and talked. He's an interesting guy from somewhere in southern Austria.
Back at the hotel, my friends and I skipped out on a political presentation. It was boring, and we don't really understand the whole Austrian government and politics thing. We decided to get ready for the last dance instead. It was a more formal dance, so we took our jolly time. It was actually a really good dance for once! I don't usually get asked to dance as much as I did on that night. Can't complain :)
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