Well everybody, I’m sure you’ve been watching your calendar closely and have seen that it has been one week since I arrived back home to Canada!! I haven’t posted anything about coming home and that sort of thing, and so I thought now would be a good time to do so! I left Vienna at…
Category: Austria
time to close
well, despite what I may want, all good things must come to an end. Tuesday was my last official day left in Steyr. What a crazy time it has been. And yes, its horribly cliche, but I felt I needed some closer. And so tuesday afternoon, Ii did this: Me, Niamh, and Hazel locked a…
for a canadian, i’m not doing so well.
So the past few days have been EXTREMELY hot in Steyr. Yesterday was above 30 degrees, and the day before was about 30 degrees. It’s been brutal to sleep in our flat because its so hot outside. I myself was awake around 5:30 sweating my face off. Not aa pleasant picture. So today we decided…
pleasant picnic
Well, after our Munich travel fiasco, I was really looking for a safe and reliable mode of transportation. And boy did I find one! 🙂 The Steyrtal-Museumsbahn. Yes dad, I did it. And on Sunday too!!! The Steyr Museum Train runs from Steyr to Grünburg, about 17 km alongside the Steyr river. It is…
this post is alive with the sound of music
And here it is! The long awaited post about Salzburg. I too was worried it might never come! Nearly all the other incomings have been to Salzburg already – most went over Easter break months ago. And so as time went on I became increasingly nervous that I would have to do Salzburg alone. And…
School Activities
This post should have been written DAYS AGO. But I wasn’t sure if it was worth a post, and frankly I just didn’t feel like writing about it. But I sat down to write about my trip to Salzburg (which will also be up today) and decided that since I’m here, I can take some…
I’m still a student
Hey everyone. Sorry my blog has been so quiet lately – I still am a students, although it may not seem like it sometimes haha. And the past couple weeks I have had to stay Steyr-bound to finish school projects, study, etc. There is less than a month of class, remember! But it hasn’t been…
nie vergessen
Never Forget. It was a struggle to get myself out of bed on  Sunday morning. I really didn’t want to see anyone or talk to anyone. However, I knew I had a commitment and I would regret not going. So I dragged myself down the hill to FH where I got on a bus with…
mountains mountains mountains
Sorry this post is very post-dated. It took me a while to get around to this post. After the chaos of International Week, I felt a detox was in order. And what better place to unwind than in the Alps? Off we go to Hallstatt! Hallstatt is definitely one of the most photographed places in…
representation
WELL. I’M EXHAUSTED. This past Monday was a holiday, so we didn’t have class, and then tuesday and wednesday we had International Week at FH! As part of getting credit for IW, we had to attend a certain amount of lectures given by visiting professors from all over the world! Lots of the lectures focused…
I wouldn’t Passau the opportunity
My title game is still going strong. #getonmylevel Weeelllll our original plans to go to Munich this weekend did not pan out. BUT we were not about to waste time. So we still went to Germany! We went to Passau, which is essentially still Austria. Even when I bought my ticket at the trainstation,…
its been tour-ific!
So titles are not my strong suit. I get it! This week I have been to 2 different tours in Steyr. The first was in “The Tunnel Of Rememberance”. You may vaguely remember this being mentioned – it is a museum about WWII in Steyr, located inside the old Air Raid shelter tunnels under Schloß…
conGraz on a great trip!
We stayed in Austria this time! This weekend was a National Holiday in Austria to celebrate the beginning of May. On friday in Steyr was the raising of the May Pole! This is a big festive event – in Stadtplatz they hung flags and banners, they decorated the bridges with small Christmas Trees, and there…
we didn’t even get ice cream?!
In the midst of many weekend trips planned for the future, sometimes its nice just to relax and spend the day wandering. There are plenty of small towns close to Steyr that offer a day worth of interest at the very least. And so, in an attempt to utilize the time available to me in…
sunday morning ponderings
The next month or so is going to be very busy for me as far as traveling. My weekends are essentially booked up until June. And that makes me feel very excited, but almost preemptively tired. And so sometimes I feel like I should relax and hang-out while I can, because I’m going to be…
this post is Lactose free!
I have never been good at puns. They are a source of humor that vastly escapes me. However, I have a couple that I will save for the end of this post. If you follow me on Instagram (@ekpattz_) then you will have already read them, and so I apologize for forcing you to read…
what are the chances?
WELL this blog has been quiet!! I haven’t posted for 2 weeks! That is crazy to me, because I feel like I’ve been doing stuff, but none of that stuff is showing up. And then I remembered: it’s because I’ve been too lazy to write it down. And I have to do that now. Dang…
a new perspective
Wells, this is my second week of lectures, which is crazy to me. And I will say that things are set up VERY differently here than at home. For starters, lectures only happened once a week. And they can last anywhere from 1-4 hours. Some lectures don’t even happen every week! Take my Austrian Culture…
I’m Not Wien-ing About It
It’s not really pronounced like that, but I’m going with it. After going to Wels on Thursday, I got up early Friday morning to pack up my things for Wien (Vienna)! I was going with a boy named Christophe, and we were meeting up with a group that had already gone to Wien on Thursday,…
Well, Wels was swell.
I’ve been waiting days to be able to type that title. Hi friends! It’s been about a week since I’ve last blogged, and what a week it has been! As a side note for people who have subscribed to my blog, you’ll notice that I will post 2 or more posts in a row, and…
Wandering Miss Emma.K 