Culture Shock in Vienna

In case you couldn't tell, that last post was me being smacked in the face by culture shock. It's rough I'm not going to lie, but it's starting to get better.

I got so caught up in coming on Study Abroad and getting to come to Europe for six weeks that I forgot to mentally prepare myself. I didn't even thing that I was about to jump head first into a culture that I knew nothing about, I don't speak the language, and the only people I know are those in my group.

That takes some mental preparation that I didn't do, so once l got here it hit me pretty hard. I could feel my patience running thin, much like everyone else's. But I think I'm starting to get over the worst part. I keep telling myself that I'm only going to be here for six weeks, and I need to enjoy my time while I'm here, and not be in a bad mood all the time.

I'm missing home a lot too, but skyping my parents and some friends has definitely helped.

Today we went to Stephensdom which is a church from 1147. It was beautiful. I'll post pictures on Facebook soon. Then after we toured it when had to go find two more churches and an old city wall on our own. We found one church pretty easily and we got to see a huge mosaic of The Last Supper painting and it was really neat. I have a picture of that too. Then we couldn't find the other church that was close by so we went to find the city wall instead. It was pretty neat it just looked like some rocks stuck together. But it's from I think 1200. It's part of the wall that surrounded Stephensdom back in the day so that was neat. Then we went to another church that was kinda plain on the outside but really pretty on the inside. It's different going to all these catholic churches with decorations. I'm used to our boring Church of Christ churches that are all one neutral color with maybe a few decorations on the stage by the pulpit. So it's quite different.

Now I'm just hanging out doing this and journalling waiting to go to dinner with everyone. So enjoy the post and I'll post again in a few days :)