Today our German class met at a Heurigen, a traditional wine-garden/restaurant, on the outskirts of the city (half of the adventure was getting there). Unfortunately, I got there are realized I did not have the card in my camera, so I don't have pictures to document it, but it was pretty amazing. The patio in the back opened to rolling hills covered in vinyards there's an outdoor seating area with benches and long tables and it's a sort of traditional meal. There are 3 different kinds of drink specialties that you can order - obviously wine, grape juice (called Most), and Sturm, which is partially fermented grape juice. The food was really great too. And although we all knew there would be a quiz after the meal, everyone ordered a 1/4 liter of wine. I think it was the first quiz I ever took while drinking wine.

After our adventure at the Heurigen, I had my second meeting of "History of the Hapsburg Empire," which seems like it will be a really great class. The professor clearly knows what he is talking about, and I am surprisingly finding history to be pretty interesting. The problem is, I've never quite taken a class set up like this - no reading assignments, just a list of books that he recommends consulting throughout the quarter. We'll see how that turns out.

I finally got some practice time this afternoon which went pretty well. Things are coming back quickly, but I need to get my focus back. After 2.5 hours I was spent, as opposed to the 6 I was doing earlier this summer.

Tomorrow we have a bus tour of Vienna, which should be interesting. Aside from that, I don't have any real plans for the weekend other than practicing. I will begin lessons with my new teacher next week, so I better be prepared.