It's 5:30am and here I sit, wide awake. I still haven't had a big crash since I stayed awake for 24 hours flying home Friday ( Read more... )

I don't think I could have fit any more in to this week than I did ( Read more... )

Classes are all rounding up around here for me. Most every time I have a class now, it is my last time with that group. All of the 5th formers (like seniors) are finished with their classes and are in the process of taking the Matura, which is a huge series of exams required to graduate. Last week for my last hour with the 5HB we took a field ( Read more... )

Last weekend I arranged a couple days off school so that I could go to a Seminar that Fulbright was holding in Altenmarkt (south of Salzburg) on Americanism. This was the first year that second year TAs were invited to attend, and to be allowed to come we had to submit a one page essay. Other groups attending included the combined Fulbrighters ( Read more... )

Well, it seems like just one year ago that I was writing a very similar post, but I cannot say it enough: this city is amazing in the spring! The weather has just been amazing. I do not think I have seen but one morning of rain in a month (and even that day turned into a beautiful afternoon). I find myself just wandering the city. I go ( Read more... )

Sitting here at school with my laptop with about 15 minutes before I have one more class for the day. It is a class that I am not regularly in, and we are doing mock job interviews ( Read more... )

I have booked a ticket home for June 8th. Today I went into the travel agency and booked a flight which I had reserved last week. I think I got a decent flight (as good as it is going to get anyway) and am glad that I fly out of Vienna...no long train rides leading up to flights this time. And I will get into O'Hare at about 8:30pm ( Read more... )

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So, I guess I have not been a very good blogger. It seems like either nothing worth reporting about goes on, or so much happens that I barely know when to begin ( Read more... )

I giggled when one of my students confused the words rape and rapture. Apparently rapture is punishable by death.