Hello world! I just finished my second day at the "Wiener Sängerknaben" (Vienna Boys Choir School). It is very very different from school back home. It seems to start and end at a different time everyday, so I really don't know what is going on half the time. Well thats partly because its all in German. But surprisingly I can understand a little of it, however its not enough to actually learn anything. I mostly can just follow along with what the lesson plan of the day is. There are only 20 kids in each class. So it makes a total of about 60 kids in the "High School" part of the school. Everything is very relaxed. On my first day two boys were outside playing during one of our many free periods, they lost track of time and missed a whole class. They barely got in trouble. Can you imagine what would have happened in the U.S.? Yikes!
The school building itself is beautiful. It actually used to be a castle! I will have to take some pictures. I have one picture of the view from my classroom window. Our classroom overlooks the gardens. Even in winter they are beautiful.

Everyone is very nice and helps me with my German. They all speak a little English so we are able to communicate in half German half English. But because of this I feel like I'm forgetting how to talk in English like a normal person! I think in half German, and half English and speak in broken German and broken English. It makes you feel a little handicapped because you sound illiterate most of the time haha.

Unlike in the U.S. the class here that is easiest for me to understand is Math. First of all because Math is a universal language, but also because I have already done most of the stuff that they are working on. Today we did a little basic trig. SOH CAH TOA does not exist here in Austria. Instead of "adjacent, opposite and hypotenuse" they have "adjacent, gegenteil, and hypotenuse" but they pronounce hypotenuse different. Sin, Cos, and Tan are all the same words but the way they pronounce them is entirely different. But enough about Math! On to the food!

The food in school I think is very good, but I have heard a couple of the students complain about it. This is really funny because compared to American cafeteria food it is basically gourmet. I mean they actually COOK THE FOOD at the school. They don't grab a box off of a shelf, reheat it and call it a day. They have this dessert that is to die for. It is called something really weird that I can't pronounce or spell. Basically it is fruit preserve with whip cream on top. But its not really whip cream, its more like a mousse but not quite as thick. It is heaven.