Had a coffee with E today after my German class. One of those café lattes with a huge amount of foamy milk. The café was really cozy, with plush armchairs and red patterned wallpaper that looked like some kind of receiving room from the 18th century, but the really neat part was that one wall was covered by a whole bunch of books. Just tacked up on the wall, front cover facing out. Reading suggestions for the next coffee break? It was very interesting, because along with some fairly well-known books, there were some really obscure ones…like a Canadian book that E said she read for one of her literature classes. How it ended up on an Austria café wall I’ll never know…
Tonight, we had three friends from our orientation sessions come over for dinner. They’re all from Finland. We met at the grocery store and came back to make a lovely dinner – chicken with a tomato sauce pasta with garlic and cheese and salad and ice cream (of course, all separated into their appropriate places in the meal…;-). It was great to talk outside of class, compare favourite books, discuss differences in translations, talk about traditions from home… So much of our orientation and class sessions involve introducing ourselves again and again, and it’s really nice just to move past that into a real conversation. :-)
Dinner party!
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