Bekki - Viennese Time Traveller بكي says:
what you doing at home?
[i][c=#BEA9FE][c=#8EB7F4]Jess[/c] =] [/c][/i] says:
evyerhting
and nothing
everything*
Bekki - Viennese Time Traveller بكي says:
what about school
[i][c=#BEA9FE][c=#8EB7F4]Jess[/c] =] [/c][/i] says:
what's school?
Bekki - Viennese Time Traveller بكي says:
youre confusing me
[i][c=#BEA9FE][c=#8EB7F4]Jess[/c] =] [/c][/i] says:
am i?
REALLY?"
HOW DOES IT FEEL?!?
Bekki - Viennese Time Traveller بكي says:
youre cruel
[i][c=#BEA9FE][c=#8EB7F4]Jess[/c] =] [/c][/i] says:
I KNOW......
>:
ahhh
Bekki - Viennese Time Traveller بكي says:
you sound like louisa
[i][c=#BEA9FE][c=#8EB7F4]Jess[/c] =] [/c][/i] says:
duck ruined my evil face....
grrrrrr
Bekki - Viennese Time Traveller بكي says:
LOL
[i][c=#BEA9FE][c=#8EB7F4]Jess[/c] =] [/c][/i] says:
yes......
you may laugh now...
but you just wait........
you'll see...
YOU'LL ALL SEE!!!!
Bekki - Viennese Time Traveller بكي says:
what are you, an evil genius?
[i][c=#BEA9FE][c=#8EB7F4]Jess[/c] =] [/c][/i] says:
prehaps....
i got removed from school
they saifd it was too much evil
Bekki - Viennese Time Traveller بكي says:
LOL
[i][c=#BEA9FE][c=#8EB7F4]Jess[/c] =] [/c][/i] says:
but they'll see...
THEY'LL ALL SEE!!!!
Bekki - Viennese Time Traveller بكي says:
okay....
[i][c=#BEA9FE][c=#8EB7F4]Jess[/c] =] [/c][/i] says:
would you believe me if i said....
school was abducted by aliens?
Bekki - Viennese Time Traveller بكي says:
not really... how?
[i][c=#BEA9FE][c=#8EB7F4]Jess[/c] =] [/c][/i] says:
good cos it wasnt
would you believe me if i said?
school was eaten by a pack of carnivorous sheep?
Bekki - Viennese Time Traveller بكي says:
not really
[i][c=#BEA9FE][c=#8EB7F4]Jess[/c] =] [/c][/i] says:
urm
well it wasnt :/
what about the fact that england has had a communist takeover and "friend" does not believe in school. "friend" believes that everybody should be equally ignorant....
Bekki - Viennese Time Traveller بكي says:
ook
[i][c=#BEA9FE][c=#8EB7F4]Jess[/c] =] [/c][/i] says:
yes
you cannot question "friend."
Bekki - Viennese Time Traveller بكي says:
riiight
Evil genius, much?
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- Mood:
confused
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Now tell me you didn't need a good laugh?
- Mood:
amused
Formation dancing of the mambo on Heldenplatz. Helena was in it.
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I was poking around on the tanzschule website and found pictures of the instructors. What can I say... ( read more )
So yes, those are they. I've also been trying to remember some of the tracks I danced to yesterday. I know I did Cha Cha Cha to Poker Face by Lady Gaga and I think we did Waltz to an instrumental version of Conquest of Paradise by Vangelis (totally awesome track if you don't know it). I don't remember what else we did in class though. The Tango and Quickstep music have completely disappeared from my head.
However, I know that I danced both of those in my private class before, though Thomas kept putting on different bits of music for the private class. The ones he played with the quickstep kept being faster pieces, which is good to see how the same steps fit but can be done faster or slower. However, the one piece that does stick in my head is this: Spotify or video. It's For My Wedding by Don Henley. I know it was this song but I can't remember what I danced to it! All I remember is that I danced to it, and I danced to it in my private lesson. I admit I was kinda going O_o when I realised what the song was about etc and that I was dancing to it with someone I'd literally met a few minutes earlier, especially as Ballroom hold is very... close... but it is a lovely song and I can't stop listening to it now!
Oh, on a slightly different note, while I remember, one of the Austrian blokes I had been dancing with had overheard me talking English, probably in the break when I was talking to Bernard and asked me about it afterwards. He said: 'Are you American?' I was all *fail* and just said, after frowning, 'No, I'm British'. I know his English sucked but still, there is a reason why English is called English... Anyway, I do not sound American. Major fail all round.
- Location:Vienna
What else have I bought recently? Well... Thursday I had to go shoe shopping and got my hands on a rather nice pair of winter shoes. Boots. That's what I meant obviously. They're a bit pricey, but they're a good pair! Also got a pair of cheaper shoes cause mine are dying (this is in addition to the two pairs I bought last week) and Snoopy slippers cause my Eeyore ones died. Oh and a radio. I now have a radio, kinda. It's a radio/clock/CD player with a line in for MP3 player use :D Strangely, the thing I like about it most is that I can turn down the brightness on the clock so it doesnt glare at me in bright green in the middle of the night!
Also bought my dance course yesterday. Because I missed the first two lessons I paid a bit more and had a private dance lesson to catch up. On this I have one thing to say: Private dance lessons FTW!!!
It was a bit weird going to class later where not surprisingly the other people there didn't know what they were doing, when I'd had a partner who could actually lead before. Thenagain, you do kind of expect that in a private lesson! But, I was shown what to do etc and had it explained to me in English, so I know the theory of whats going on as well, and why one pushes slightly against their partner in Ballroom hold etc. I think this part about Ballroom hold was skipped over by them in class, based on a couple of the guys, but hey ho, I know it :D However, I do totally love dancing. Once I got my head around the basic Waltz steps I loved that in my private lesson, but it wasn't as much fun in class because my partner didn't know what he was doing. I know it's really bad too, but I ended up leading half of it because he REALLY didn't know what to do and we'd have just been stood there! In class, I quite like the Tango, and our instructor managed to get immature giggles from everyone last night while demonstrating one of the steps for Tango in Ballroom hold. I was also getting quite good at Cha Cha Cha until Lady Gaga got stuck in my head and then I started getting it wrong. We were doing Cha Cha to Poker Face. My partner in that one was much better though and also knew I was British and started to take the mick when I got it wrong (but in a good way). None of the others would have got away with that!
Soo before I forget, I must write this down.
Private lesson - basic steps of Waltz (English Waltz as I kept being told by Thomas), Quickstep and Boogie Woogie.
Class - Waltz, Tango, Cha Cha Cha, Quickstep (basic steps for all again).
Class is 90mins long, well, just under because we have a break in the middle. My private lesson covered the steps done in the first two weeks that I'd missed - they did it in 2 weeks, I did it in about 45mins. Yay me. Thenagain, as I said, it does make a difference having a partner who knows what they're doing, because you can follow. Nevertheless, I do totally love Tanzschule. The school I'm at now, Stanek is shiny. Literally. You go down the stairs into it and theres loads of shiny things! I also have a cool membership card. It's electronic and it's got my name on it and all. You have to sign in with them each time you're in, but they've also said to keep it and if I ever come back to Vienna in the future...
SO. Yes. Quite bouncy at the moment, despite being tired. I'll try and get pictures of stuff for another entry, but you know, things take time and I never know quite what I'm doing. Talking of which, I'm hoping to do a timetable of me so you can see what I get up to as well! Again, bare with me for that!
- Location:Vienna
Because I don't quite know where to start, I'm going to just start at the beginning.
In case you've missed it, I'm in Vienna and I've been away from LJ for a while because of this. I was offered a job as an au pair here, and well, I took it. I flew out from Luton to Vienna Schwechat on Monday 28th September and have since been trying to get in with the Viennese way of life!
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In other things, my days off, all two of them so far, have been spent wandering the city, trying to get myself vaguely orientated and just trying to get to know Vienna itself! First impressions, I like the city. In a way, it reminds me of York, and yet it is completely different.
Last Sunday I went wandering, and getting lost, and saw sights such as the Hotel Sacher (where the famous Sachertorte comes from) and St Stephen's Cathedral. My U line goes directly to the city centre so I could see the Cathedral pretty easily! It's quite impressive. Last week I also found somewhere recommended by
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lutitia - Haus der Musik. I had a feeling that I'd like it there, and bought a years pass before I went in (it's 27€ for a year's membership there, and for it to pay for itself you only need to go 3 times). It wasn't long before I was loving the fact that I'd bought a years pass to it. I literally spent hours in the Haus der Musik and didn't see it all! I skipped out some parts because I was running out of time, so the year pass is definitely a good thing. I will be spending a LOT of time in there. It's like music geekiness heaven. It really is. If anyone comes to see me, I will be taking you there! When my membercard comes through (they said it takes about 3weeks) if I take a companion with me to the Haus der Musik, they get in for half price, so it makes it even better :DThroughout the week I've been going to Donauzentrum mostly. I did spend a couple of days in the city, but I've been to Donauzentrum a lot. Donauzentrum is a shopping centre on this side of the river. It's quite good, but I keep getting lost in it! Sabrina likes to have lunch at the Sushi Restaurant there too. I like Sushi but trying to order it in German is... interesting. Normally at home I have the vegetarian one, because I prefer it, but as you can't get Sushi much at home, I don't really know what they do, so going to a Sushi Restaurant in England would be quite bad. Going to one in Vienna is... terrible. The first time I had no idea what I ordered/what was ordered for me, but it was all fish, bar 2 cucumber rolls. I'll post a picture of what I had left (that Sabrina had put in a container for me to take away for later) further down this post. Surprisingly, I didn't eat it. However, the other times I've been there for lunch I've been ok. I tried something with Noodles last time and it was so good that I went there by myself and had it again the day after! Obviously I didn't take pictures of that... (they'll be below..) It was cool sitting where I did though, because I could see the man making sushi while I was waiting for my food.
Skipping a bit, I met up with
randomizemylife on Wednesday. It was really good to see her again, and Vienna is rather a bit of a different venue to meet than London! Thankfully, randomizemylife was able to show me a bit more of Vienna, places that I didn't even know existed, and gave me a few tips on things too. She showed me the palaces, and let me in on a bit of history of them. I still love how there are identical palaces, the one made just to be an exact mirror image of the other (though looking at it, it would look strange if there was just the one there now!) It also amuses me that the first palace was built as a holiday palace, and that it's across the road from the original palace... though, apparently there were actual city walls at one point, and the new palace was outside the city walls, so therefore not in Vienna. Vienna now, however, is much bigger (and doesn't have a wall enclosing the first district) so it seems a little strange now. Strange, but good.Back to business,
randomizemylife and I ended up at the MQ (which I rather like, thanks!) and had waffles :D Yum! Waffles and tea, to be exact. It was good, though I think we actually melted that day. It was about 26C, and we were sat outside in the sunshine. Yes, 26C. In October. I have tan lines from that day. Nevertheless, it was good, and will have to be repeated sometime soon. Perhaps not an exact replica, as it's a bit colder now and will continue to get colder still as Winter draws near, but repeated in a form :)Today I went wandering around the city again, and ventured out of the first district, taking in some of the sights
randomizemylife showed me on Wednesday. This time I took a camera and went out purely to take pictures, and take pictures I did! I'm currently just uploading them to Flickr at the moment and I hope they will be finished by the time I'm finished with this!Some of you will have also seen me commenting on Twitter about Viennese me. Viennese me will end up far girlier than I am now! Sabrina and Michael decided that maybe it would be a good thing if I learned to dance whilst here. They asked me if I danced, and I said a bit, which is true, but I do English folk dance, not proper waltzes etc like they do here, though I have always wanted to learn to dance. After a little searching, they found me a course at a dance school in the city centre. This particular dance school is the best in Austria: Tanzschule Elmayer. They've found a course which is an intensive course for the military academy (so they needed ladies). For 80€ one gets a 1hr lesson a week for 10 weeks and learns, as the site states "Wiener Walzer, Langsamer Walzer, Foxtrott (Quickstep), Tango, Polka, Cha Cha Cha, Rumba, Samba und Boogie Woogie". For a normal course where you might learn that lot at this school, you could easily be paying over 200€ so it's a very good opportunity. Also, normally these courses can be hard to get on because they get booked up quickly, but there was a space on this one, so I have to go there on Monday *scared*.
Sabrina keeps telling me that people in Vienna, and a lot of people that go to this dance school like to see other people, and to be seen themselves, if that makes any sense. They apparently like to look down on those who don't fit in so well. Because of this, she has insisted on giving me a makeover of sorts and now me, who rarely wears makeup, now has a small collection of things that she's showing me how to use etc. Thankfully she's very good and it looks natural but who knows if I can do that or not! I will try! I've also had to go shopping with her to make sure I have the appropriate clothes for the first time there. Subsequent times you can tinker etc cause you know what others are wearing, but she doesn't want me to stand out as 'the English one'. I can do that all by myself when I go all O_o over being told what to do in German and just being O_o over actually learning dance steps!
One of the cool things about this though is the fact that I'll get to dance at the Hofburg (and, as I believe it, open the ball at the Hofburg [don't ask which one etc, I can't remember]). I had a better look at the Hofburg earlier (from the outside obv) and it does look rather nice! In case you're wondering, this is what I'm doing at Tanzschule Elmayer and here is the website in German and English. If you've not seen it before, it's worth having a quick look at both homepages because they have different pictures on them.
I can't think if there was anything else I was going to put but this is more than long enough and the Haribo have addled my brain now. So... I will finish here, with some pictures for your pleasure and/or amusement. Don't say I never give you anything :P
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Tomorrow's to do list: Brushes for makeup, tights, Bob mobile. Don't think I'll get them all done tomorrow, especially not the latter, but I need to get one of those sooner rather than later!
- Location:Vienna
- Mood:
accomplished - Music:The World Is Not Enough (dubbed in German)
I am still alive, I just have like no energy (that's what looking after a 2yr old will do to you!) and no real internet at the moment, as
randomizemylife will testify!I hope to be back soon but can't promise anything yet. I will do a proper update when I'm back online. Talking of which, if there's anything I need to see, linky me. I don't have the time or energy to do anything else at the moment.
Talk to you all soon :)
A few observations:
My German sucks
I have no sense of direction
I am confused by buses
With two of those there, I may well be The Stig (see the TG race across London).
I also have no internet at the moment (am currently on Sabrina's laptop now that she's back from hospital). I would say that if anyone has any thoughts as to how to get me online (I've tried the usual) then let me know, but as I have no internet, that might be a little tricky... They have wireless internet here but although I use that at home, my laptop will not recognise the wireless internet. Normally it will recognise even secured wireless internet and will ask for a password... but alas, no. I've tried turning my wireless internet off and on and thus doing the same with their modem but to no avail. I may try again shortly but I need to go spy on buses soon, so I can work out where on earth to get on it tomorrow! I know roughly where it is but I don't exactly know where it stops! This is a problem. If you have any ideas on the above, please text me. Thank you
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I know I'm still going to be around online from time to time, but I just want to take this opportunity to say that I have some really good friends on here, and that I am glad to know you :) Obviously I can't say truly that I will miss you, because you only know me online, but I will miss you. I assume that the next couple of months will be a LOT busier than my recent months, so I will miss posting on here, and reading my friends page et al. I know I have lots of things to talk about (namely Germany) and I will get around to it at some point. Pictures are all uploaded now, so it shouldn't be so hard to talk about it all, when I find real time.
In the meantime, while I am not so active on here, I am still active on Twitter, for it is easier to do quick updates there, and reach lots of people at once. However, I will be back soon, I hope.
I hope to make it on here and post again before I head out to Vienna, but if I don't, I will see you all there :)
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13:19Rebecca
what
13:19Jess
ur face!
13:19Rebecca
wtf like you can talk
13:19Jess
ooooo bad man!
13:19Rebecca
WTH
13:20Jess
soz pro.
13:20Rebecca
donkey testicles!
13:20Jess
yeah mayteeeee!
13:20Rebecca
you want some?
13:20Jess
innit
13:20Rebecca
i hear theyre a delicacy
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