Spring Break: Vienna

Wow, I feel overwhelmed when it comes to how much I have to write about on this blog. I have yet to begin the entry about Loyola, but I have to skip ahead because this trip to Wien has been so awesome and inspiring for writing. I was extremely tired from staying up almost all night the night before leaving watching Ratatoille and saying goodbye to Marli's hermano and tia (sister really, but calls her an aunt, like dude in english). I don't know why hermano (don't know his name something like Valdicci) came because there are no jobs in Madrid, but I guess it was worth a shot in his mind. Needless to say he didn't find one and is now returning to Brasil, why Tia is joining him I have no idea, but now we will go from 9 people living in the piso to 8 and Tia won't be cleaning. It may get a little dirtier, but I think it will be nice with all Americans and Marli because the others honestly complicated things. It's not that I didn't like the hermano, but I just thought he was a difficult person to read and never quite understood him. They were leaving at 6 in the morning like us, but there wasn't enough room in the car so we ended up taking the metro. It was not a problem and I will most definitely take the metro back to the airport even though I have so much luggage. Well, maybe not because if enough of us need to go it would be 11 euros or less for van service. Anyway, we made it there fine, had some jokes with our friends on the metro because they thought we were at the terminal and we were on the same train as them, and enjoyed watching the sunrise from the terminal. I was pretty much in a daze and was so tired that I passed out before the plane got to cruising altitude. I tried to stay awake during the beginning because I was expecting a meal, but it was a good thing I ate a sandwich and a granola bar cause you had to pay for food and drinks. Very strange being as it was an Iberia flight.
When we arrived it was cold and we had to leave the plane onto the runway, experiencing for the first time winter again. Shucks. Really. Madrid has been so amazing weather wise that I decided it was normal. Wrong. Vienna has really been depressing actually. lol. I don't really like using internet lingo, but this is a blog and it was meant to be funny. I mean I'm in Vienna right? I shouldn't be complaining, but it is dreary. Constant rain and hasn't been above 45 degrees. Now I'm done complaining, because I had the most amazing night here tonight.
I'm sorry I had to jump a little ahead in my story, but I don't want to forget how this was. Short detour (like all my stories), the rest of the group (Matt Wade, Calli and Bree Walvisch, Kelcey Towell, and Rachel Dratnol) bought tickets from a street guy as soon as we went downtown the first day, but I was like no way dude. Andy and I had been through the street selling stuff enough in Paris and I knew what I wanted to do while I was there. This guy sold the others tickets for a musical performance for 20 euro or so with one free champagne drink. Now what we did. We left slightly late, but thanks to my euro book I knew about a little used service at Staatsoper. I thought our "show" started at eight and we arrived at 710, so that was a slight issue, but nothing big. Ok, so now that you're dying to know what we did... we saw an opera called Onegin. FOR 3 EURO! Amazing right?! We got there slightly late which was unfortunate, but we only missed 10 min. We had a coat check for free and saw an amazingly high quality italian opera (i think) with english subtitles. I'll admit I was not interested at first because I have been jaded by the old buildings and the things you can do in Europe. However, by the end of the first act I was amazed and very into the performance. By the end of the opera I was dying for another performance. Simply marvelous. I'll continue soon, but I wanted to get that off my chest and onto "paper".