FRIENDS!

It's Sunday. I have just got back from Bad Ausee where i was visiting Alaina and Nichol... they are real people... i promise.
This visitation was agreed mid-week and for that reason by friday i was DESPERATE to get out of school, get on a train, go to Bad Ausee and feel (marginally) less like "that nobhead from england".
So... you can imagine the sense of acute distress i felt when i returned from Liezen and logged on to OEBB.at and found that NO train existed between Schladming and Bad Ausee. I knew at once that the website was lying to me because there are several students that come from Bad Ausee and go skiing in Schladming but no matter how many times i put it in it still came up with "the search you have entered has found no results"....

However being the level headed and calm person i am................... i promtly began hyperventilating, stopping just long enough to see through the growing black dots in front of my eyes to punch in Alaina's number and subject her to a bout of verbal diarrhea.
She, being the (actual) level headed person she is, logged on to OEBB.at and within seconds found the train i was supposed to take, you'd think the story ends there, i would realise the mistake i made and all would be in order... you would be wrong.

Even though i was being telephone coached through (one of the simplest) websites in online train booking history, i still could not find ANY results for my search and my anxiety was growing with every click of the mouse and every very politely written refusal to let me go to Bad Ausee... just as i felt sure i was going to keel over and die from the stress being put on my brain Alaina sent me a link to where she was looking and i found the train times... Thanks Alaina!!!!

Sturm was on my mind for the ENTIRE 2 hour journey there and when i got to the station Nichol and Alaina were waiting on the platform... love you bitches xx

We walked to Alaina's having great chats all the way there! i was relieved to learn that Nichol also has a highly unprofessional crush on several of the students she is teaching AND that Alaina has encountered quite a severe lack of enthusiasm on the part of her older students.... both of these were a source of much worry for me as i thought i was the only one, but no we are all as incompetent and unproffesional as eachother! yipeee!

Once we got to Alaina's (which, by the way is the cutest little appartment of all time), we proceeded to DEMOLISH three bottles of Sturm and a couple of beers before we decided, yes, its time, the diskothek awaits! We tried to look it up on the internet but couldnt get into the site and in our semi-drunken state definately couldn't navigate our way thrugh google maps and the such like.... Just as well the Salzhaus had strobe lights beaming into the sky then isn't it!!!
So off we trotted following the lights and eventually came across what looked like a scene from an 80's snuff movie, drunken austrians adorned the car park, blasting techno from their cars whilst "chillin" on the bonnet, chain smoking and stumbling around clearly thinking they were acting entirely normal, cue hysterical laughter from all three girls.

However there was one very "special" drunken austrian, who i think i will remember until the end of my days.... Mike, ahhh Mike. I think Mike deserves an entire paragraph, he was truly dancing to his own soundtrack in life. Our first encounter with Mike was whilst we were hanging around outside (i was smoking), Nichol turned around and said, "wow that guys hammered".... Mike was lying on the floor in the foetal position, all alone. When he finally got up, he staggered over to waiting car, which we assumed was his (much needed) lift home.... wrong! He was snubbed by his mates who drove off at top speed leaving Mike looking rather forlorn at the side of the road however, he only stayed looking forlorn for a couple of seconds before he directed his attention towards getting back inside the club, he took a cigarette out of his packet (which took a good 3 - 5 minutes), staggered past us and swifly fell asleep with his face pressed against the glass of the main entrance to the club.... errrrrm JOKES!
We collectivly decided that this guy was comedy value and invited him to have a drink with us, he accepted, many many funny things were experienced (mainly at mikes expense) before he flitted out of our lives and into the crowds of Slazhaus....

Saturday was the BEST sleep in ever! we just monged out all day before going to the supermarket to buy food, it took us a good 30 minutes of wandering around the supermarket aimlessly before buying a lettuce, some ice tea, 2 bottles of wine and a pear.... productive shopping trip eh?
On arriving home we experince flash backs of the night before, i had revealed at some point in the night that i have a cheese diary and that i am, in fact a massive cheese geek... i was about 80% sure that i had just ruined any chance of keeping these two ladies as friends after this revelation BUT amazingly, both of them are massive cheese geeks too! They can't get enough of the stuff, Nichol is actually such a hardcore cheese fiend that even though she is LACTOSE INTOLERANT she still munches away on cheese without any thought of the consequences!

Cue return trip to the supermarket, or to be more specific, the cheese counter! We buy looooooads of cheese, a baguette (and another bottle of wine), go home, get in our PJ's, put on a film, crack the bottle and STUFF our faces with cheesy goodness..... i am serious when i say that this combination might just be the most succesful "happiness formula" i have ever lived through... i was in heaven!

We stayed up till about midnight watching stuff on tv and drinking wine, then we all fell exhausted into bed... another great nights sleep and another great lie-in!

Sunday we just got up and lazed around, had a shower, watched spongebob, then Nichol left and me and Alaina just did more of the same really. Vroni was in Bad Ausee for a wedding and when i called her she said she'd give me a lift back to Schladders... SCORE! £7 saved on train fare and i just have to sit in the back of a car instead of on a stinky train!

I have just got back from Theres's house (the girl i think i'm going to live with), and have planned all of my lessons for the next few days so... all good in the hood!
Also we think we might have found an appartment! Going to view it on tuesday but defo not getting my hopes up, as you can read from my previous blogs, i do not seem to inspire people to a) tell the truth about the appartment or b) see any problem in making RIDICULOUS demands or offers in relation to living, furniture or price so... we'll see how it goes!

Going to bed now, i am one big fat Austrian granny since i moved here and seem to be incapable of keeping my eyes open after the strike of 10.30!

Tschuss xxxxxxxxxxxxx