Tuesday

So Monday did not have any wildly interesting things, being composed of class, then a trip to the mall. On the plus side, the mall had a supermarket in it, and I bought some food. It took me 30 minutes to check out because of the (to me) odd way of weighing and labeling produce. I tried to buy a bunch of bananas and some apples and the process involved weighing the items separately, entering the code for the type of produce, and printing the sticker with the corresponding barcode to stick on the sack. Once I figured that out after two trips to the register, I checked out along with the loaf of bread. Then I did homework and went out to dinner. We went to the brewery Die Wiesse and I got some (more) Wiener Schnitzel and it came in a piece about 4 inches wide and a foot long. It was delicious and I was very full. That was about it.

 Oh, on the train on Sunday, an elderly nun boarded the bus after me and grabbed my rear end. I assume it was because I was standing near the rail and she was trying to hold onto something. However, it was for a period of around 5 seconds or so. I figure that was enough time to figure out it wasn't a metal rail. But moving onto today.

After class we went on a trip to the Festung, the fortress on a hill in Salzburg. It was really pretty neat. We learned that the city got its name from the industry of salt manufacturing which originally was the economic force driving the city. There were several other cool bits of facts, but not least was the extensive museum composed of mainly artillery and different types of swords and knives. We also rode the tram up the mini-mountain. It was raining all day today, so expect a wet quality to the pictures. After that I returned and did homework and ate dinner in the room. I really enjoyed the bread I bought yesterday. And Jeremiah, if you're reading, the apples are totally organic. There was no hint of wax on their exteriors.

With no prior music theory class, my Mozart's Final Years course involves doing analysis of scores of Mozart's compositions, analyzing cadences, scale degrees, periods, as well as sonata structure and finding out how different pieces deviate from the norm. It is definitely new, but so far it's easy enough to pick up and I'm not having much trouble. So far so good. Music History is going, and it involves mainly a lot of memorization. That's not much out of the ordinary, but I'm listening to and learning how to differentiate between different eras and types of chants, gregorian, secular, hymns, and on. Wish me luck.

 This is the tram at the top about to head down. Pretend that it's purposely impossible to tell in an artsy way.

 In the museum this guy had a mustache which I aspire to, and so I had to take a picture.  I have a ways to go.

 Ignore my finger on the left. This is the view off of the Festung on the middle level, facing towards the alps.

 See the austrian flag flying over the trumpeter's tower.

 This is on the artillery hall. These windows used to be used for gunholes, I believe.