Brief week description involving Vienna

November 10-16. Monday I had my normal classes except we went to Central European University to hear a lecture by one of the professors there. It was interesting to see another college in Budapest, even though we have seen 3 already, but we did find out that this one was more Americanized than the ones we attend. Tuesday for culture class we went to a Philharmonic Orchestra Concert at the Opera house. It was pretty cool to listen to and to see all of the instruments. If I can recall correctly I believe they played some Mozart and Beethoven and someone else that I forget at the moment. Then Bree, Stephanie, and I left for Vienna the next day where we stayed until Friday. We took a train to get there and it took about 3 hours. When we got there we checked into our really cool hostel and then walked around the city at night to scope out what we wanted to do over the next few days. While we were there we saw some Hapsburg palaces, some great art by Gustav Klimt and others, checked out some cool shops, ate some good food-traditional Austrian food and other types, saw some traditional Austrian clothing, took a tour of the Opera House, and saw where Mozart lived when he was in Vienna. We probably did other things, but I cannot recall them at the moment. Saturday and Sunday were spent catching up on homework and resting up from our busy week.