I Almost Fell Out of a Canoe in Austria

Hello people! So the last few days have been interesting. Like I was telling you last time I went to Vienna on Thursday. I didn't do any sight seeing though, but we had coffee with my half host sisters, (does that make any sense?). Isabel, the older one is 7 and Stephanie is 2, I think. There I learnt that the best kids games are the same in Austria (you chase them, they run away), and Jelly Beans are a new candy fad.

On Friday we dropped Julia off at the airport, and Daniela and I both cried. I'm not sure why I cried, I didn't even cry when I left, but whatever. She has made it to Huston OK, and is getting settled in.

Today was more interesting. We went canoeing with Kristien (I think I might have called him Christoff in the last post, so I'm sorry) and his two kids Dominic, and Jasmin. Me and Daniela were in one boat, Kristien and company in the other. Once I explained how to steer the canoe to Daniela we were going pretty good, that is until we passed the other boat. They then started this marvelously funny (please note the heavy sarcasm there) game of pushing our canoe off course into the banks of the river! I could have killed them. We almost capsized twice, hit the bank three times, though we never actually got stuck (but they did, hee-hee!) and hit one tree. Amazingly, since in Europe they've aparently never heard of life jackets, we all made it back safe and sound, and not even wet.

Later on we made apfelstruesel (I don't know if that is how you actually spell that). It's kind of like apple struedel. Anyway, it was really good and I didn't even burn down the house!

So, tomorrow I am off to Altmunster for language camp. Since I'm not taking my computer with me (sorry folks) I'll tell you all about it when I get back.

Talk to you in a bit (maybe in German, evil cackle)

Ellyn