So all the Pepperdine International Programs have a week-long Educational Field Trip (EFT) each semester. Ours was Vienna, Austria (next semester we're going to Madrid!) and it definitely had the most E of any of the other programs. So while some programs we're on 8 day cruises around the Greek islands and others were climbing the ruins of Macchu Picchu, we were exploring museum on top of museum in Wien. Not that I'm complaining, because I for sure loved the Van Gogh exhibit at the Albertina. It was a great experience to see how his work progressed from his earlier days to the ones nearer his death. And the Hundertwasser and Belevedere museums were great too. I was not, however, a fan of the Third Man museum, which was really more of one man's collection of everything he had ever found related to The Third Man movie.
The first night we got there we all went out for real wienerschnitzel since "wien" is Vienna in German, so it makes sense to eat a food that originated there. Ha. It was sehr lecker! We also tried gluhwein, which is hot spiced wine.. But I'm still sticking to my favorite neue wein which is cold and sweet. Mmm.
We went to a monastary and the best part was the amazing library. It looked like the one from Beauty and the Beast. It was awesome. We also went to a palace that had gorgeous grounds to walk through and the Hundertwasser museum was really interesting too. I'm pretty sure the fancy tourist-attracting toilets I saw in New Zealand were designed by Hundertwasser. We also went to a Bach/Mozart concert one night. It was fun to get dressed up for once. We all joked about how nicely we clean up since we've all seen each other looking pretty rough (one of the side effects of traveling with and sharing a house with 51 other people).
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