3 and a half days and counting

I cannot wait to go! As much as I love my family, I don't do well living with lots of people. It's quite a change from living on my own in my apartment, being able to do what I want, when I want, and having the run of the place, to sharing with four other people (well three people, and the spawn of satan, aka my 8 year old cousin). Thankfully, I will have my own place in Austria. In Paris, I have to share at first, with a guy no less, unless I find a place of my own, which I will have to do eventually. But I guess it won't be that different from residence. I just hope there is a door on the bathroom or there could be issues, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. So I went and bought a book about Vienna. They have a little paragraph telling you where to go if you want to go to Adolf Hilter's old haunts. That's pretty controversial to put that in there I think. I am kinda curious to check it out. The book also stated the obvious saying not to joke about Hitler (he was born in Austria). Vienna has some really weird things to see, like a death museum, which has a reusable coffin- the coffin has a false bottom. Thank goodness it didn't catch on. It will be interesting to see all this stuff though. The book also says to look out for dog doo, because about 8% of Viennese households have dogs, but they don't like to clean up after them. I guess they don't have laws like we have here about that. But the pictures in the book look real pretty, but they are all taken in summer. I bought a roots backpack as for a carry on. Space is an issue, but I am doing my best. Some of my book jackets got smooshed. C'est la vie, I guess. I bought a German lingo card with essential phrases, after my mother got me a french one. I now know how to say that I don't know how to speak German, I wanted an Italian one too, for when I go to Italy, but some one stole the card out of the package. So yeah that's where things are. As far as I know my parents are coming to Toronto to see me off, since I am flying from Skids to Toronto, Toronto to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Vienna. I only have an hour in Frankfurt, so I hope the German customs aren't too rigid.