Sorry about the lack of posts, life just passes you by without your permission. This may be a giant post, but I'm hoping to touch on some of the highlights that happened this last week.
In between homework, classes, and internship stuff, we're constantly exploring and trying to fill our time with mini adventures. One of the big adventures we had this week was on Wednesday. A bunch of us had bought tickets to the Circus. After seeing Madeline as a child, I was a little hesitant to go. For all of you that haven't seen Madeline, it's a girl that attends a circus in Europe and ends up getting kidnapped... yay for giving me things to fear!
But the circus was absolutely amazing! It was so much fun! All of the acts were extremely impressive, plus we got our tickets for a great price! Win win! But it definitely was worth going to, we all were so happy we went!
The next day, a group of my friends had been planning on surprising me with an outing. They told me to meet at the main U-bahn station at a certain time at night. All the instructions I got was to dress warm. I showed up to the stop a little early and started noticing that there were more people there then usually and they were being quite a bit louder then usual. But I didn't think too much of it.
Then all the boys showed up, Brock, Garen, and Brayden. Brock put an Austrian scarf around my neck and announced we were going to the Austria vs. Wales soccer game. It was such a fun surprise! The game was so fun! It was kind of odd to sit on the Austrian side of the stands when I was secretly cheering for Wales. But it was so fun to be in that atmosphere and be with friends!
The next day, we took a day trip to Melk, which is a little over an hour out of Vienna. We visited a Monastery there which was extremely pretty. Unfortunately pictures weren't allowed, but I think it had one of the prettiest churches I have ever seen in it. If you want to literally have your breath taken away, visit this church! It's incredible.
After that we all rented bikes and road from Melk to Kerms. ... That's about 22 miles. 22 MILES. It was incredibly pretty though. We rode through multiple little villages and vineyards which were incredible. I had gluten free cheesecake on the way, so I'm not mad. Haha! It was definitely a fun day!
Today is Sunday and I have never been more grateful to go to church. You really start to feel it when you're not able to take the sacrament for awhile. We went to the International ward which was in English and it was so good! It was so fun to meet people from literally all around the world. They even had a gluten-free tray for the sacrament bread! Tender mercy for sure!!
During our religion class today we had a speaker come and talk about his life. He's 91 years old and he's lived in Vienna all of his life. But he lived through WWII, he became a German Solider and everything. He spoke about his experience and the hardships he went through. He also spoke about how he joined the church and how he met his wife, which was fun. But hearing his story really put a new perspective on that war, I think we forget that some of the German soldiers rebelled and they didn't want to be part of Hitler's army. There were a lot of sacrifices made. It was so amazing to be able to hear his story and get a glimpse of what he went through.
I'll try to be better at uploading more often than just once a week, this week it just escaped me! Hope you are all doing well!
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