Sunday, January 27, 2013


Sorry about not posting for five whole days!! This internet truly is awful. I cant believe how bad it is. They say we have internet here but I don’t believe it. Anyway, let me catch you up. On January 23rd, we visited the Central Cemetery of Vienna, which is where many famous people are buried. A unique thing about this cemetery is that people from all religions rest here. Some of the most famous people we saw were composers such as Brahms, Strauss, Schubert, Beethoven, and Mozart, although not all of their bodies are located here. However, their graves or monuments to them are. Unfortunately, most of the Jewish graves are not kept up like the Christian ones are. That is a sad reality of the Holocaust; if all the Jews are driven out of the city, then no one is there to take care of the graves anymore. A lot of these graves are over a hundred years old, and it was very sad to see many of them in disrepair. We even got to see some of Dr. Moser’s family there. Those graves were well taken care of since he visits often though, so that made me feel better. He placed a rock at the foot of the graves and explained to me what that meant since I did not know. It dates back to Old Testament times when people would throw rocks on a grave to keep the animals from getting to the body since it was buried in the desert. After this somber excursion, we then went to lunch, which is very typical of this trip. There is a lot of “hey look at this beautiful city” and then right next to that will be a reminder of the tragedy that happened there. Then, we did the Riesenrad, or giant Ferris wheel, of Vienna. We were able to see most of Vienna from the top of it, and it was very very beautiful. I highly recommend that for anyone who gets to Vienna. After this, we had a little break and discussed what we wanted to do for dinner. Dr. Moser suggested that we could eat at his apartment if we wanted, and we all wanted to do that, so we met him there at dinner time and cooked up some bacon covered bratwursts, which were to die for. I usually do not like sausage, but here it is an art. We all had a great time at his apartment, and how many people can say that they ate dinner at their professor’s apartment in Europe?

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