Not-so-castley-castles, long nights at museums and "achtundvierzig"

I haven't done too much exciting since my last post. This week of classes was a little taxing. I had presentations on the current economical and political climate of Slovenia and Belgium, a paper due tomorrow for my Holocaust/Literature class, and several excursions. One is tomorrow and a small group of us are going to a local youth center to meet with young Austrians. It will be very interesting, especially since none of us going have any real German language experience. However, the kids here learn some English, so hopefully none of us will be too shy about trying out the others' language.
We went on an excursion last Friday to the Gozzoburg in Kremz. "Burg" means castle in German, so I was expecting a castle. However, the Gozzoburg is a medieval palace of sorts. It's more like a manor, actually. It was a little disappointing, but I like old buildings of all sorts. Also, this building was divided into apartments as recently as 30 years ago, so the renovation is still coming along.

The "Lange Nacht Der Museen" was fun. For the price of one entrance ticket, you could keep the stub and get into any of Vienna's other participating museums (There were about 90 or 100). I went to the Kunsthistoriches Musuem, which is a huge Art History museum. There were plenty of famous painters represented, and I only walked through a few of the galleries. There was Botticelli, Brueghel, and Durer, to name a few. I forget the other ones. Anyway, afterwards, I went to the Leopold Museum and saw the Egon Schiele exhibit. I've come to really like Schiele. His work is disturbing at times, but always very potent and emotional. He acts as an excellent foil to Gustav Klimt, who is dominating our class art discussion right now. The last museum I went to was the Haus der Muzik, which is a music museum. It has interactive exhibits about Austrian composers, such as Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Strauss. There are also exhibits about how we hear sounds, how music is created, etc. I'd like to go back, when it's not so crowded.

This weekend, my roommate and some others are going to Budapest, but I'm going to stay here and explore some more. I'm super excited because Meg, my friend who's in GB right now, might come visit in November.

Also, next weekend is our 4-day long trip to Zagreb, Croatia. I'm really looking forward to it! I've wanted to explore Eastern Europe for a while now.

I'm still hoping to make it to some other parts of the continent, like Budapest or maybe Venice (some people are planning a trip there).

Other than that, I'm just focusing on school and learning German. I can count and I do it all the time. German's a really fun language to count in. Eins zwei drei vier funf sechs sieben acht neun zehn. The larger numbers are even more fun. For instance, every day, I take the 48A bus to school. In Deutsch, that's "Achtundvierzig A." 565 would be "funfhundertfunfundsechzig." 777 is "siebenhundertsiebeundsiebzig."
To a thousand is about as high as I can count in German, but I think that'll suffice for now. :)