Vienna

I am here in Vienna Austira as a student. I have been speaking german for one year, and it is quite a strecht to live in a country after having spoken its languadge for a mere year. I am here with my close friend Jacob, living with him, his parents, and his four brothers (the fifth is at college). We are living in a three bedroom apartment, lavishly large for Austria, but quite small to the Provo asthetic (also to the Provo family, Seven people in three bedrooms- do the math).

We attend Wassagasa gymnasium- it is a highly academic school, with a strong tradition of exellence ( two nobel prize winners have attended the school). Our school sits roughly two blocks from the appartment of the late Sigmund Freud (you may have hear of him) and a roughly ten minute strassenban(streetcar) ride from any where in Vienna. My walk to school is enough to bring me into a medative stupor, gazing at the centry old goliaths around me, buildings the kids around me seem so at home in; i do not feel out of place here, i feel like i am at another angle to the world- that i see things just a tiny bit different from the kids around me, this is inevitable, but still amazing to me.

Me and Jake attend classes in Latin (Jake takes French), Geography, Chemistry, Math, Physics, German, History, English, Ethics, Psycology. I have many interesting things to say about my calsses, but i feel that perhaps that is for another time, so- farewell.
-Jesse Nicholas Quebbeman-Turley