My favorite thing in the beginning of the week was food. Because I had been so sick last week, my appetite was non existent, so as soon as I started feeling better, food became a priority.
This was dinner on Wednesday! Pasta, vegetables and chicken in a garlic and oil sauce. We did very well for ourselves.
Some more food victories include that, after a few weeks of searching, I've finally found a good sushi place! It's not only a sushi place, but an all you can eat for 8 Euro buffet. I absolutely love it.
I'm probably just biased because I get unlimited dumplings, but that's okay.
It also has what they call running sushi.
No, the sushi did not grow legs! It's just on a conveyor belt and you can pick whatever you want out of the two rows. It goes very very fast.
Also it's starting to get really cold in Graz! The only reason I still have this is because I angrily sent it to my friends. They still get to wear shorts and I wore TWO JACKETS to class the other day!
I comforted myself by decorating my room (or at least finishing my decorations)
Here's the finished product!! That world map will soon be filled with flags noting the places I've traveled.
On this wall, though it looks like nothing, I'm collecting postcards from everywhere I go. So far I only have one from Vienna (not even one from Graz yet... I'm a little behind.)
Friday was the last day of my German intensive course and I had my final that day. It went pretty well!
On Saturday I left for Munich! Which if you don't know, Munich is home to Oktoberfest. I've actually wanted to go to Oktoberfest since I started taking German classes at about 12. I really got to check something off of my bucket list!!
The bus ride there was (too early but also) so beautiful!
I feel like Austria just likes to show off how absolutely beautiful it is.
And we went to Oktoberfest the next day! By the time we got to Munich (at around 5), there wouldn't have been anywhere to sit, so we decided to walk around the center of the city so that I could get myself a Dirndl. If you have no idea what that is, you'll find out in a second!
Here are some pictures I took while we were walking around.
The next day, I put on my Dirndl and headed to Oktoberfest. Here I am at the entrance. (I love my dirndl)
Even at 10 am on a Sunday, we could barely find a place to sit! Even outside the tents were very crowded but I was so excited to be there!
It was a lot more like an amusement park than I thought it would be! I'm not sure if you can see, but there were a lot of horses and also a lot of roller coasters and rides! I didn't go on any Sunday, but I did plenty on Monday.
Here's me with their famous mug of beer, called a Maß (pronounced kind of like mass) and it is one liter of beer. As my friend said, it's Maßive. I also bought bread with bacon and melted cheese. I love my carbs!
I LOVED the tent we were in. The ceiling was decorated so beautifully to make it look like a sky.
Here is something I still can't believe I witnessed. This is a man chugging his liter of beer out of his own shoe.
Everyone cheered for him but I can't help feeling like that was a bad idea. Doesn't that smell and taste really bad? Won't he have a soggy shoe now???? I guess that's Oktoberfest for you.
We went again on Monday. Here is my attempt at showing off my Bratwurst and making it look like I'm good at taking cool pictures. I definitely should have painted my nails before hand.
The tent we went to on Monday was a lot more calm and was decorated in a style that looked a lot like Christmas to me. Unsurprisingly, I loved it.
Speaking of attempts at taking cool pictures, here are the pictures I took on a Ferris wheel and then on a very VERY high swing.
I didn't take any pictures from the swing because I was very sure that I'd drop my phone!
So today, after all that fun, we woke up early to take a bus to Salzburg. More on that in next week's post but here's some of the pictures I took while we were on the way.
I just wanted to point out that there were so many farms with lots of cows on them! A lot of the cows were laying on the ground. I guess because they didn't feel like mooving.
Thanks for reading see you (hopefully on time) next week!
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