I'm enjoying Vienna a lot. It's really great even though my dorm should be condemned by some Austrian Health or living standards organization. But it just gives me more reason to stay outside the whole day.
Recently we've had beautiful weather, very springlike and simply gorgeous, makes my walks around town from place to place even more enjoyable.
On friday night our macalester group saw the scandalous Arthur Schnitzler play "Der Reigen". Which translates round dance and it is. Before we saw it we read it and analyzed the play in class which made seeing it easier to understand and very enjoyable. It's a Satire that deals with social class and rolls in sexual relationships. Two older women left after the first couple of scenes because I don't think they were expecting what they sure as heck saw! aha
After the opera we had a surprise birthday for one of the girls here who turned 21. So we ate cake and made a toast in a dorm room with our professor (she left before we made the toast, just in case) and then went out for drinks. The problem is that the trains shut down here around 12:30 or 1am so it makes it difficult for some to get home without waiting for the early morning train at 4am. Luckily I can just walk cause everything is around where I live!
Saturday we went to the famous naschmarkt (about a mile of food stands, restaurants and flea markets). We bought groceries to make fresh spring rolls, vegetarian of course and called it an early night after a cup of coffee and tara's exquisite Vanilla Traum (cream sweetener that tastes like ice cream! aha
Quick turn around Sunday I went to the Augustiner Kirche. They have the best music in town except for the opera houses but definitely comparable and to bible study at Stasia's apartment in Schoenenbruennen. I go to macalester with Stasia and we somehow ended up in Vienna studying together. She accompanied to mass at augustiner kirche and invited me to the dinner and bible study later. Little did I know it was going to be 16 girls and myself, but I'm not complaining.
Then today I went to the Schatzkammer for class- a museum related to the early history of Austria's Hofsburger. It's was interesting and of course there was a ton of info; I was there for about three hours. I figured out the Vienna's everything as it grew as a city was influenced by Roman, Italian, Francophone, Hungarian, Netherlandic (ian?), Turkish (Islamic) and Germanic cultures- and then later came a large Jewish influence. It's was a melting pot for culture and art. Neat huh?

Spring Break Plans
As far as returning to Germany for spring break- My thoughts now are the following: stay in Vienna, visit all the monasteries around the area (the beer's home brewed and amazing... so I've heard) and spend time in the Wiener Wald. My thought process is so: I'm already in a place that people spend spring break in- why travel around to somewhere else on my spring break. Plus, how much time I'm I really gonna have especially when the semester is in full swing?

So I don't know. I feel like that's the deal. I'm not totally convinced yet but it sounds pretty smart right now.