decided to be a little adventurous and try something new, so I asked the butcher what he would recommend. He asked what I like, and I said that I like just about everything, I just don't know what things are because everything in America has a different name, if we have it at all. He thought for a while, and then asked me if I wanted to try something really different. I agreed immediately. He sliced off a piece of some weird-looking thing called Press Wurst. It's like nothing else. It is chunks of meat and vegetables pressed together and bound in a vinegary gelatin. But its delicious. I am glad I asked the butcher for a recommendation, because I never would have tried this on my own. Here is a picture of it ready to eat back at my house.Yesterday was Fasching here, which is the Austrian equivalent of Mardi Gras. Many of the students at school were dressed up, so I took my camera to all my classes and got some fun pictures. The students made me promise to make it clear that they don't always dress like this... so... let me iterate: This is not an accurate representation of the average Austrian student's fashion taste. This is an improvement on the average Austrian student's fashion taste.
I also got to try a traditional fasching dessert, the krapfen. It is very similar to the Bavarian jelly filled donuts we are familiar with, but they are filled with apricot jelly instead of the normal strawberry. Very good. Now I can say that I ate a load of krapfen!
Check out the pictures:
This Saturday I am going snowboarding at Saalbach in Salzburg. I'm going on this trip with the HTL, and it seems like the school is going to be covering most of the costs! I'm really looking forward to it, especially since a lot of the students are younger, and I haven't met them before. It should be a pretty good chance to get to know some of the teachers and students a little bit better. This is where Saalbach is:
Stay tuned for an update about snowboarding when I get back next Saturday.
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