My experience in Vienna, Austria has set the tone for what I want the rest of my life to look like. While living in Vienna, I had the opportunity to travel to (Budapest) Hungary, (Zagreb) Croatia, (Munich) Germany, (Paris) France, (Florence and Venice) Italy, and extensively within Austria (Graz, Wachau, Hallstatt, Innsbruck, Salzburg and Zell…
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Note to Self
One thing I’ve gained while living in Austria is a better of sense of what it means to ‘be an American’ from an international perspective. Before leaving home, I thought that I was well-aware of how other countries viewed America and Americans. Fat, lazy, uneducated and self-focused. I really believed that it was all…
Lessons Learned: 2 months in Vienna
The soft skill that I am developing the most throughout this program is patience. Despite living here for 2 months and feeling well adjusted, I still find that simple, daily tasks take me much longer to complete here logistically than back home. For example, something as simple as grocery shopping, getting medicine, ordering food…
Adapting to Life in Austria
Despite the rest of this blog post, I want to start by pointing out that, overall, assimilating to life in Austria has been less difficult than I expected. Almost everyone here speaks English fluently—thank god—my A1.1 level German hasn’t been getting me very far. The first thing that comes to mind that I’ve had trouble…
Academics in Austria
Hallo blog! Wie gehts? Danke, sehr gut! Und ihr? I just finished my first German class! The A1.1 level within the pre-semester program for exchange students. I can’t believe how much I learned within just 2 weeks. Inspired by my progress, I signed up for a semester long class- level A1.1+, in addition to the tandem…
First Week in Vienna, Austria
Hello! My name is Frances (Franny) Adams and I am a Junior majoring in Finance and Business Analytics and minoring in Economics! This semester I am studying abroad in Vienna at WU or the Vienna University of Economics and Business. I chose to study at WU largely because of its location in Central Europe and…
First Week of Classes
This week was the first week of classes for me. Before coming to Vienna, I knew their semesters would have a different schedule than I am used to, but even so, starting school in October felt pretty late. Another thing that is quite different here is the course schedule. I have some courses that meet…
The Bumps in the Road of Living Abroad
As I sit in the airport about to leave Vienna, I am reflecting on my semester abroad. There were definitely some challenges I faced when between language barriers and cultural differences. There were a few weeks to adjust to the new norms, but after no time I seemed to fit right into the Viennese life….
The Moment Vienna Became a Reality
Being abroad has been a total adventure. Every day is something new and exciting. There are two unique moments that bring abroad became very real. The first was when I was sitting with all of my new friends on one of my friend’s terrace playing card games and I was surrounded by all of these…
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