Niki, Conny and Eva :)
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Eliezer aka EZ and Dimitar... Our foreign connection from Venezuela and Bulgaria
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f.l.t.r.: Dimitar, Steffi, Cem, Toby
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Some Work and A Whole Lot of Austria

Hey all!

Well, finally the workload at Munich Business School is starting to pick up, and I find myself bound to my desk until midnight every once in a while. This certainly brings up a lot of memories from Queen's... the endless nights spent studying at the Library, or in Goodes Hall. What kind of brainwashing has Queen's done with me that I am excited about such long study nights?!?!!?

In any case, apart from more work, there's been a lot of visits to Austria lately and in the near future. Last weekend I went to see my grandparents and friends, this weekend I am going again as my grandpa is at the hospital (nothing serious though), and next weekend I will go again, because there is a national holiday, and I am meeting my aunt from Vienna. If someone would have told me a year ago that I'd return to my hometown so many times in such a short while... I would have laughed at their face. But it's great! I REALLY enjoy the proximity to my family and highschool friends!

And in other news.... I am going to Budapest, Hungary next semester!!!! For my last international exchange during my career as a student, I have decided to go to Budapest. I'll be there from January until May and I can hardly wait...

Well.. for now that's all the news.. Some pictures are attached, as usual :) This time from last night's Sushi night with my study collegues. Fun fun fun!

Fall colours along the shore of lake Starnberg
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Conny and me at lake Starnberg
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Munich...
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Look who also likes the castle's garden: CANADA GEESE! (It almost felt a bit like home)
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Botanical Garden
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Nymphenburg castle - but only a small part of it...
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Indian Summer in Munich!

While the weather wasn't great for most of September in Munich, the last two weeks have been great. Temperatures around 15-20 degrees and nothing but sunshine all day long. This means that I have gotten around a bit more lately.

Last week I have been to Salzburg to visit my cousin and other friends later that day. As always, it was wonderful to see friends and family again. My cousin and I spent most of the day shopping, drinking coffee, and dying my hair dark-brown and her eye-lashes black. A perfect girl's day out!

Unfortunately I came down with a cold later that day, and when I met up with a friend from Canada (he was on exchange at Queen's last fall) on Tuesday, I really felt under the weather. This meant that I missed several classes later that week and was bed-bound until Sunday.

However, Sunday was a great day, and I went on my first sightseeing tour in Munich. I checked out the Nymphenburg Castle and the botanical garden. Be-autiful is all I can say. The castle's gardens stretches over a huge area and all you see is green grass, flowers, and little ponds. As my friend Mary said so correctly: You feel like a princess walking around in your gardens, waiting for the knight in his shiny armor.....

Then today I had a day off and went to Lake Starnberg in the outskirts of Munich. Again, the weather was perfect for a long walk around the shore and coffee on a nice terrasse. Starnberg is a beautiful small town, it also has very rich people living there. But if you see the scenery you understand why one would like to live there.

To top off this nice week - probably the last easy-going one for the semester - I will be going to my hometown in Austria this weekend. I'm looking forward to it! So expect more news next week :)

Chapel inauguration ceremony
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My Dad was here!

Last weekend my dad and a friend of our family rather spontaneously came to Germany and Austria! The reason for this nice visit was the inauguration of a chapel, in memory of our village's fight against the construction of a highway.

After I picked them up from the airport on Friday, the both of them immediately checked out the Oktoberfest, while I sat through my strategy class. :) My dad did me the greatest favour ever, when he let me drive on the Autobahn - the first time driving a car since July 25th!!!

The weekend was short and sweet. The chapel's ceremony on Saturday, where I met all of my former neighbours and was bombarded with 100000 questions about my life in Canada, and now Munich; Supper at a friend of our family; party with my highschool friends; lunch at a beautiful restaurant; seeing my grandparents; and back to Munich.

It was fun! :)