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Road to Salzburg, the home of Mozart.

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Okay! So this is the LAST week of my blogging as my time in Austria is coming to an end very soon 🤩.  This week I have decided to record my every day movement until I fly out from Vienna Airport.  The recording will be edited and published sometime later when I get home.  I cannot believe it is almost time to go home.  This past week has been another full on funfil week. My adventure has involved a trip to Salzburg the home of Mozart and a stop over in Linz to catch up with other family members.  My host sister Ingrid invited me on semester break trip to Linz with her children so that was awesome. So because it was semester break we had a week off school and Ingrid's children came and stayed.   I spent the entire weekend with two of my host sisters children which was fun because they kept me occupied and they are very talkative even though there is the language barrier.  I must admit it has been hard and I get frustrated because they spea...

Welcome to Graz. Here comes the Orchestra.

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This is the view from my balcony. A few days after I got here, it snowed and it was absolutely beautiful.  Everything is beautiful and amazing (I think I've used those two words more than any other words throughout this journey because I dont know how else to describe it).  As Landy and Jordan says China is Wakanda welllllllllll I kinda feel the same sentiments "AUSTRIA IS WAKANDA HAHAHAH!!! You like my sexy Olaf!!!   So, this week was my last week of school for 2019.  I came from NZ I had finished school for a week and then I started at a Catholic School for two weeks.  I have had to pay 150 € a month to attend school.  Which is about $250nzd a month, so you work out the math.  I have also had to pay three months worth of bus and tram tickets for me to be able to get to school and home daily.  These were the main things I had to do when I first got here.  Mama organised everything including my sim card bless her.  I hav...