It's been a little while

Wow—it’s been a while since updating this blog. I won’t go into too much into detail over the last few months, since that could probably fill a novel. Instead I’ll just provide a few highlights.

I will be staying a second year in Austria! More than that, I’ll be spending a second year in Villach at my same school. I will be back in the States for 3 months in the summer between.

I visited lots of cool places including:

-Ljubljana, Slovenia

-Croatia (especially Pula and Rovinj)

-Munich to see Amelia

-Lots of cool sites around Villach including:

                -celebrating Faschings (their version of Mardi Gras) which fell on my birthday)

                -The Bauernmarkt or summer evening market just out of town

                -several lakes

                -small villages—regardless of what side of the Austrian border they’re on

                -and a river that shares my name

Though the travel has been especially fun, it’s the connections I’ve made in such a short time that makes this year even more special. Little moments of shared coffee or collective hours spent cooking cannot be easily put into a list. Nor can birthday parties or being there for those you care about recovering from illness. It’s this opportunity to get to know people still living in Villach even better that motivated me to stay right here for one more school year.