The Clarion November 13, 1989 Pages
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Brevard College students spending the semester in Austria include, left to rt^ht: CatherineEngstrom,
Mylene Thomas, Jennifer Walaitis, Susan Budan and Hideko Ariizumi.
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Scenes here show them in Salzburg and on a mountain outing.
Greetings from Austria!
BC students enjoy Austrian life
Hello Brevard!
It’s your friends from Austria. Boy, do
we have news!
Over the last three weeks we have been
more than busy. After we arrived, we were
informed that classes start right away. We
began German lessons the next morning.
We haven’t slowed down since then. In ad
dition to German, we have History, Ethics,
and Life and Culture, all of which keep us
busy from seven to four everyday. We all
thought that Brevard was tough!
Every week we go on a hike, or we go to
visit the many sights around Austria. A
week ago Sunday we hiked up a mountain
call Sonnstein. The people in the villages
go there on cloudy days because at the top
of Sonnstein the sun is always shining. We
began the hike at 1:45 p.m. One hour and 45
minutes later we arrived at the top. It was
a spectacular view of the area in which we
live. We could see for miles all around. We
stayed for an hour and then began our trip
down. This took us one hour and 30
minutes. One of us had a pedometer, and
we figured out that we had gone: 6.4 miles.
You can imagine how good we felt.
We have also been to Salzburg. Last
Saturday we went with our History
teacher, Konrad, and our journal teacher
Briggite. We walked through the city and
up to a fortress on the other side. This
enabled us to get wonderful pictures of
Salzburg. The highlight of our day was the
fact that we got to eat at McDonald’s!
None of us ever thought that those fries
and Big Macs would be so terribly missed.
It proved to us that there are things in
America we should not take for granted.
Well, that’s all for now. There's more to
come next week.
Auf Wiedersehen
Good-bye!
Jenny Walaitis