Day 28- the zoo
I forgot to mention, that I went into the opera toliet yesterday, and it was a big disapointment, you can't even hear the music, and it is not all that clean, and there is no hot water. Not worth the 50 cents.
Also forgot to mention that I got hit on yet again, when I was waiting for Sarah yesterday, but the guy got the hint that I wasn't interested. Speaking of would be suitors, the turkish guy called me today. Ick. Why oh why did I give him my number?
The debit card problem was fixed, it was as I suspected, there was no plus logo so that's why my card didn't work.
So today, I went to the zoo at Shönbrunn. There was an Akin (native support group) event there, and after a bunch of us just walked around. It used to be the Hapsburgs private zoo, and it is the worlds oldest zoo. It was built in the mid or late 18th century. It was fantastic. Omg. The best zoo I have ever been to in my life. It was just beautiful, and had some species I had never seen before, like a really small monkeys that just wandered around above your head. The aquarium was really cool too, there is this one part where water is there is a tunnel built in the middle of an aquarium. The tanks with australian fish were amazing, and looked like you could be in a reef.
I was hanging out with Michi, Guy, her dad Johannes, Gawan and his mother. Johannes asked me and Guy if we had ever seen a giraffe before. I was surprised to see a lot of tropical animals outside (flamingoes). It is one of the colder days we've had here, there was frost on stuff, although still no snow.
Michi and company left, and I ended up walking around the zoo with Gawan and his mother. She is so nice, she invited me to come to their house before I leave. Gawan and I did the double cheek kiss thing, three times. Hehehe. (Once when we saw each other, and once when we thought I was leaving with Michi, and then once when I really did say good-bye). He suggested that we get together before I leave.
I was playing up my girliness, like when zoo staff had -Heids brace yourself- a dead rabbit on like a clothes line, and they were making a cheetah chase it back and forth. It was pretty gruesome. When we were in the reptile cage, I for some reason decided I wanted to have a staring contest with a snake behind glass. I was right in front of it, staring it right in the eyes, and the damn thing started snapping at me. I jumped back, and moved away after that. It was fun being a girl though, Gawan is so knowledgable!
Polar bears in German are called Eisbär (Ice bears), and bats meants flyingdog. A turtle is a sheildtoad. The direct translations are pretty funny.
I don't know if I am going to Bratislava tommorow, because when I was at the Akin thing, I think that was when the Australian girls tried to call me. It was so embarassing, the phone in the back and I was sitting up front with Michi. I released to late that I had left my phone on, and then I heard a phone ringing, and Michi was all is that your phone, and I was no, mine has Beethoven's Fur Elise. Sure enough 10 minutes later, a muffled version of Fur Elise starts playing. Michi was all I hear beethoven, and we started to laugh.
So that was the day so far. It was pretty fun. The Akin stuff was boring, because they had to translate German questions into English, and English answers into German, most of it was in German. Michi tried translating some of it for me, but her dad was getting annoyed. But I got the jist. Today made me realize how rusty my notetaking skills are. I haven't written a covered a story since the summer. I need more practice.
Also forgot to mention that I got hit on yet again, when I was waiting for Sarah yesterday, but the guy got the hint that I wasn't interested. Speaking of would be suitors, the turkish guy called me today. Ick. Why oh why did I give him my number?
The debit card problem was fixed, it was as I suspected, there was no plus logo so that's why my card didn't work.
So today, I went to the zoo at Shönbrunn. There was an Akin (native support group) event there, and after a bunch of us just walked around. It used to be the Hapsburgs private zoo, and it is the worlds oldest zoo. It was built in the mid or late 18th century. It was fantastic. Omg. The best zoo I have ever been to in my life. It was just beautiful, and had some species I had never seen before, like a really small monkeys that just wandered around above your head. The aquarium was really cool too, there is this one part where water is there is a tunnel built in the middle of an aquarium. The tanks with australian fish were amazing, and looked like you could be in a reef.
I was hanging out with Michi, Guy, her dad Johannes, Gawan and his mother. Johannes asked me and Guy if we had ever seen a giraffe before. I was surprised to see a lot of tropical animals outside (flamingoes). It is one of the colder days we've had here, there was frost on stuff, although still no snow.
Michi and company left, and I ended up walking around the zoo with Gawan and his mother. She is so nice, she invited me to come to their house before I leave. Gawan and I did the double cheek kiss thing, three times. Hehehe. (Once when we saw each other, and once when we thought I was leaving with Michi, and then once when I really did say good-bye). He suggested that we get together before I leave.
I was playing up my girliness, like when zoo staff had -Heids brace yourself- a dead rabbit on like a clothes line, and they were making a cheetah chase it back and forth. It was pretty gruesome. When we were in the reptile cage, I for some reason decided I wanted to have a staring contest with a snake behind glass. I was right in front of it, staring it right in the eyes, and the damn thing started snapping at me. I jumped back, and moved away after that. It was fun being a girl though, Gawan is so knowledgable!
Polar bears in German are called Eisbär (Ice bears), and bats meants flyingdog. A turtle is a sheildtoad. The direct translations are pretty funny.
I don't know if I am going to Bratislava tommorow, because when I was at the Akin thing, I think that was when the Australian girls tried to call me. It was so embarassing, the phone in the back and I was sitting up front with Michi. I released to late that I had left my phone on, and then I heard a phone ringing, and Michi was all is that your phone, and I was no, mine has Beethoven's Fur Elise. Sure enough 10 minutes later, a muffled version of Fur Elise starts playing. Michi was all I hear beethoven, and we started to laugh.
So that was the day so far. It was pretty fun. The Akin stuff was boring, because they had to translate German questions into English, and English answers into German, most of it was in German. Michi tried translating some of it for me, but her dad was getting annoyed. But I got the jist. Today made me realize how rusty my notetaking skills are. I haven't written a covered a story since the summer. I need more practice.
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