today was the last day of german class. and yesterday was the last day of art class. the thought of leaving is becoming to real and i can already feel the tears starting to build up. yesterday in art we had a salon, to present the poems and art pieces we had made. it was fun i think my stuff went over good. i really enjoyed this art history class it was a blast. ps katie isaak the teacher is the bomb.
today we had the 2 german finals. i think i did rather well on them both. at least i don't think i am in any danger of failing but i will keep my fingers crossed just in case. so please also keep good thoughts for my grades with you guys.lol
today is the last group meeting in vienna. then sunday is my last one here, i already know it is gonna be a tear filled day, the people here are amazing. i am just not ready to go. this summer went by to fast.
i said good bye to my host family on tuesday, they left to go on vacation. it was kinda hard to say bye to the dad but everyone else it was ok. they are a nice family that i will miss.
2mro is the talent show at the lds institute and i am kinda excited and nervous to be in it. i am singing with anne so this should be fun and interesting.
tuesday it is off to salzburg and dorfgastein. i will be there the 4-14 of august. then back to vienna for about half a day on the 14th. then my flight back to az is the morning of the 15th.
love you guys

back from budapest.....

i left thursday night for budapest with anne and chloe two of the most amazing people on this earth. we got there at about 11pm as the train from vienna was about 1 and 1/2 hours late. we got a taxi and headed to monique's house. she is a friend of annes. her family is there because her husband works for the embassy. on the way to her house a whole new world from aladdin came on the radio.

chloe and i turned the backseat into a stage, and it was fantastic!!!!! anne thought it was the funniest thing ever and the driver didn't really seem to care. lol after we got to the house, we mapped out the next day and then it was off the bed.

all 3 of us shared a queen sized bed, it was cool we had our own bathroom and so much space, so much better then a hostel. :) friday morning the real fun started.

we had real american cereal it was great...ymmmm kix and cheerios. mo and the kids took us to a park where we got to see about of stuff about the communist fall and such. it was cool. her kids which are 6,4,2 years old got cranky so she dropped us off to take them home.

we walked around for about 4 or so hours before we were gonna meet up with mo. we saw the coolest stuff ever... budapest is a great city. while walking around i saw my friend from high schools little brother who is on his mish right now. so crazy random so we talked to him and the companions for a little then went on our way.

about 20 mins after that chloe's sandal broke, and we fixed it with a plastic bag handle to hold i ton her foot. it was the funniest yet sad thing i have ever seen. we got ready to cross the chain bridge and turned the danu into a wishing well. it was so funny and american but, hey when you have a big wish you need a big wishing well.

we meet mo at a church and headed off to the mall so chloe could get new shoes. we had some lunch, then it was off to get ice cream. not as good as vienna but it was delish. then it was back to the car so we could see the city by night.

we went to heros square and saw roller bladders practicing their tricks..it was cool.
then back to the car for some more night time tour. got some more pics then it was back home.

shower then to bed we were all so tired. the next morning we had breakfast then watched some movies with the kids until the cab got there.

on the train we had to get ready for a wedding party. our train got there 1 hour before it started and the station was about 45 mins away. people had a fun time watching us do our hair and make-up while in our seats. but the best was when i had to shave my legs in that tiny dirty train bathroom..so funny!

the wedding was fun good food and friends so all-n-all a great weekend.

this is the last week of classes and then it is off to salzburg for a few days.

PS i did see harry potter. it was good but i though they left some great parts from the book out. also yesterday i went to the leopold museum. so freakin' strange, i was happy to get done and go. they just have a very interesting selection.

Ok guys here is a quick update.

I have one day and a week left of school, and then it is off with the class to Germany. That is from the 4-14 then we are back in Vienna for a day. I am leaving for Budapest 2mro with Anne and Chloe. We will be there until Sat. then we come home and head to Anne's host mothers wedding party. It will be a busy next couple of days. I am so ready for it. I will check back with ya'll after I get home from me trip.

Ok ya'll it is Sat. night over here so here is the update from the week, before I go to bed.

This week German class was good for the most part. I feel like some of the work is getting a little harder for me but I have alot of people wanting and willing to help me. Which makes it easier for me, it helps take away some of the stress and pressure. I also have a teacher that is giving me extra credit work so I can make sure I pass with no problems.

Art class has been great. We went back to the Art History museum this week to finish up soe work, ahhhh this place is amazing. Thursday we went to the Belevedre, it is the modern or the more modern art museum here. It has things like Monet, Manet,Klimt, and so many others. It is an amazing feeling knowing that you are standing in the same room with such great works of art. I mean these are the painters and painting that helped form and change art for the entire world. It is such an unreal thing. I sometimes can not believe that it is all for real!!!!!!

FHE was good on Monday, I just love the LDS out reach center and the people that go there. Wed. at institute was great, so many people came the place was packed. Which just made ot ten times better.

Thursday and Friday night Anne stayed the night with me and we just did girly crap, and talked and messed around, it was nice. I have alot of fun when I am wit her, so it works that we are always together. I got her to watch The Pirate Movie, mom, michelle you should know the one I am talking about. She loved it just about as much as I do, which just proves we are meant to be friends.

Today her and I made dinner for Elder and Sister Gills. Just a simple Penne and Cheese Bake with salad and cream puffs for the sweet. It turned out great and we had a blast talking with them. Seriously just about the cutest little couple ever. Yesterday was their 45th wedding anniversary, so we made them a card and left it all secret like on the roll sheet for FHE.

Also just an FYI on Friday I played my bud Simon in darts, 4 games and yeah me I won all 4!!!!
July 31st we are having a talent show at the LDS out reach, and Anne has finally talked me into doing a duet with her. I said we had to make it funny so I will be the guy and she is the girl. It should be a funny thing to see and a painfulllllllllll thing to hear. lol

Off to bed I go, have to get up early for church. Night all. Hugs and Kisses!!!!

ok here is the long coming update........



The last time i wrote it was Monday and I have been a bummmmmmmm and let an entire week go by sorry.



As you all know Monday-Thursday I have German and Art class. All of the classes went great last week, I had a couple German quizzes, they were amazing but it is a good learning experience, I have since improved. I got back my first paper for one of my German classes. I had only about 8 mistakes, which was the best in the class. Which I am glad for seeing as I re-wrote it like 3 times and had help with the edits. I was very happy with myself.



Monday FHE was good and then Tuesday was homework at the LDS institute. Wed. Institute was great, well the lesson was long and boring but the company was good. The stake pres. taught as a part of graduation. The spaghetti was good and the dinner time convo was freakin' hilarious!! I just really love the people there especially the missionaries. well ok 4 of them. It was just a great night with some very funny word explanations. Such as Megan can you describe the word pimp? A German guy wanted to know what it was, so Elder Waldvogel asked me to explain. It was about the funnest thing ever.



On Thursday our art class went on it's first museum tour. We went to the Vienna Art history museum..they Kunsthistorisch Museum. It was amazing... I got to be like steps away from Rembrandt's and Raphael's and Durer's and so many other greats. It was a breath taking experience. I know I'm an art nerd but of I love it. After the museum it was time for the weekend.

Anne and I decided to go to Leipzig Germany, so Thursday night we got on the night train and the journey began. We had to go thru the Czech Republic to get there, ahhhhh. We got about an hour past Prague and then the real fun started. We felt the train jerking back and forth like someone slamming on brakes. Then a loud noise and a sudden stop happened. Guess what the train had broke. The conductor came over the all call and said it would be about 3 hours for the worker to get there and fix it. We sat on the train just kinda chillin, since we were not allowed to get off. As the stupid smoker had ruined that for us, by trying to open the track side doors and not the sidewalk side doors. So these people were trying to get on the tracks with train still coming. Dumb dumb dumb!!! lol

So about 3 1/2 hours later about 6 worker got there...the next all call was well it will be a little longer the worker have no clue how to fix it. 4 hours later they asked us to get off the train and get to the other side of the tracks. 5 hours later another train came and picked us. So this is how the train broke.....There are copper wires on top of the train that run along 2 sides. It helps to keep the train balanced on the tracks. Each side has about 15 smaller wires that attach to the train itself. The jerking we felt was from all 15 of these wires on one side snapping off one at a time. Then the entire support wire fell off. Then the sudden stop and loud noise was us running over something on the track. It was great...we were stuck in middle of nowhere Czech for 5 hours.

The train that saved us took us to Dresden, where our next train was leaving gin 5 mins. ahhhhh but oh yes we made it. 2 hours later we were in Leipzig. It was so freakin' cool. I already want to go back, I loved it! The train station was 3 stories, over 140 shops/eats and had 25 train platforms...this place was huge. We were supposed to get there at 7 amish and got there at 1pm ish. We walked around for a few hours looking at the great buildings, so pretty. had the worlds best ice cream, i swear it will never be topped. Thanks again for the tip Elder Tilgner. he is from Leipzig so we had some insider info. :) Enjoyed some very windy and rainy weather and just enjoyed the beautiful surroundings.

Anne and I each bought a souvenir t-shirt, some dinner and headed back to the station. Got on the night train and headed towards home once again. This time at Prague we didn't brake down but it is just as crappy. 60 new passenger got on and there was only about 10 open seats. So all the hallways and stairwells were over stuffed with people. I had to go people climbing just to get to the restroom. lol

Got home Saturday morning around 7am. Did some laundry and e-mail returning and finally had some real food and Nice bowl of muesli..aka cereal. Then it was off to Anne's to help her host family move. 9am-1:30pm that is what we all did. Rented He's just not that into you and came back to my place to watch it. Got that and all our homework done...we are so on top of things.

By 11pm it was shower time and BED TIME. Wed night-Fri night I got about 10 hours of sleep. So 3 days and 10 hours, booooo. Thanks all to homework and trains. :)

Church today was fun, good lessons and good sacrament meeting. Got to catch up with my friend Bryce who had been gone, so all in all a good day. But all I have to say is tired,sore,tired,sore! It is for sure nap time.

Funny story about Leipzig. I met a sparrow that knew how to beg like a dog. he landed in front of me and opened his mouth, and just looked at me. It was funny, so I fed him some of my ice cream cone. Then hod wife got involved and we decided they were not eating it, but taking ti a nest or something. It was just funny and cute.

love and miss you all

A long Monday is coming to a close. Today we had German class as always, it was good and I am started to remember alot more. It feels good to give a right response in class, so up to this point my German classes have been a good thing. Art class was way chill, she let us out like an hour ahead of schd'. A group of us were gonna go to the LDS institute but it was not open yet, so we just stayed at Kate the art teachers house and hung out with her and her daughter. It was fun they are a cool family.

Finally got to the institute and had some good chili for dinner. My friend Simon helped me with a paper and then it was time to play. I hitup some darts and pool, I still suck at poll but I am still killing people in darts. lol YEA ME!!! hahaha

Came home did the rest of my homework and got to chat to my mom and some friends online, which made this long day feel alot better. It may be over but it helped the end of my day. Somethings have just been hard the last little bit. It is nothing to worry about mom it is just life. I have a feeling it will all be getting better here real soon, I just need to talk(e-mail) with a friend. After that it will be all good.

Hey I miss you all very much, you guys are great for keeping up with me on my blog. Thanks for those that have been keepin gin touch with me over the computer, it has been a great aid for missing you all.

<3 <3 ya

A FuN sUnDaY coming to an end.....

So today at church we had some visitors...to say the least. So both R.S. and Sunday School went as normal, just nice and chill. When getting ready to walk into sacrament we found the room had been taken over.

We had the entire Mountain View highschool (AZ) there today. They are getting ready to finish up a concert tour and wanted to come to church. Lucky us they picked our ward on oh yes....fast sunday.

About 40 of their 60 people came up to bare their testimonies. Which would not have been bad, if they hadn't started an EFY show. It was a mix of girls camp meets EFY meets youth conference. AHHHHH high school kids. Every other testimony sounded the same maybe 3 of them were real and heart felt.

To top it off half my ward doesn't speak english so the testimonies had to be translated so for each person up there it was 2 testimonies really. So while it was kinda funny it was also very boring after a bit. Needles to say my church got out a 1/2 hour late today due to the overwhelming need to share today.

I think some of them forgot that this was a real ward and not their closing meeting. It was alot of I'll miss you guys and Ill miss singing with you, your all great tyoe thing. On the up side they did a musical number and it was good. So all in all church was real good today, I like my new ward alot.

Walking home from the bus today after church, I saw a guy getting arrested by some under cover police it was pretty niffty. Not sure what for but it was him and about 4 officers, two of which were going thru his car while the other two babysat the guy.

I hope everyone had a fun and safe 4th of July. Enjoy this coming week. I miss you all and loves ya.

Hey ya'll HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!

Ok so the week is coming to a close. Wed. and Thurs. I just had class so nothing uberly fun. Thursday we met the new art teacher. her name is Katie and she seems really cool. So yea all the new teachers are good, this makes me very happy.

For summer semester we don't have any classes on Friday so we have 3 day weekends every week..yyyyyiiiippppeeeeeeeeeee. I love having more time to play and get homework done, that to me is always a good thing. Wed. institute was cxl'd for their graduation, but Thurs. we still went and played for a while. While there playing we baked the largest apple pie I have ever seen. This thing could have with no problem fed like 20 or so people, it was crazy. Anne stayed the night so we were up late just playing and watching Boy Meets World. We have a goal to finish the 1st 2 seasons before we go back to Provo. Just because we are so cool at like 10pm we went to the park by my house and played on thw slides and swings, it was tons o' fun.

Friday we slept in and the got up to go out. It was a chill day, and to the shock of the group we got ready...as in we did our hair and make-up. Ok I did our hair and make-up. lol We got lunch and went to run some errands. After the funness of that we headed to the institute to make cookies before movie night.
It was great! I made the best M&M cookies ever!!!!!!! Better then anything you guys have had before. You all know how I do cookies so I think that is saying something. :) I had to use this maple gold sugar cause they do not have brown sugar. It changed it a little but they were so good. The Elders there attacked them like a Vulcher does a dead body. It was a funny sight. But the few other that got some said they were good.
Some cookies fel off the sheet and begun to bake to the bottom of the oven..ahhhhhhhh but no worries. I got it fixed very fast. Of course some M&M's stayed on the bottom so for about the next 2 trays the oven was smoken' lol and not in a good way. Then I watched the 4th Harry Potter.
I love the Elder here they are so freakin' fun and funny. As of last night they all know how bad I am at pool but how good I am at darts. After all the fun it was home for some sleep.

Today we met as a class for a group lunch. We celebrated the 4th with a tasty lunch from a Czech place. It was cool cause it was in a game/amusment park. When we were all done stuffing our faces we went to play on the rides. P.S. the place we ate at is also called a beer garden...hehehehe. Came home did all but one of my papers for homework, so some stress is gone. Know I plan on watching a movie and chillin' till bed time.

I hope you all have a great 4th, enjoy the fireworks for me. I am so sad I can't see them this year. Please remember to be safe while haven' your fun tonight. I love you all and miss you guys tons.