Week 2 of School

Trip Start Jan 09, 2007

Trip End May 11, 2007

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Flag of Austria Vienna, Austria
Thursday, January 25, 2007

Monday I was bored so I went to the Naschmarkt, which is this huge (mostly) open-air market just south of Karlsplatz (which is the creepiest U-Bahn station around, but also the biggest). It's the place I'd been waiting to find - I can get all my tofu products and other obscure stuff I love that until now I couldn't find. There's rows and rows of Asian markets, health-centric stores, meat-and-cheese stands, Greek and Mediterranean stands... it's fantastic.

Wednesday my art class met at the Gugging Museum. We had to take this bus form the northernmost U-Bahn stop for half an hour up northward - I'm really not sure if we were even still in Vienna by the end. Then we trudged up this hill in the snow (as it finally decided to start snowing around here), and at some point I began to notice that the buildings kept mentioning things about psychiatric wards. It turns out that this museum originally was just some patients making art as an outlet, but then it got a bit bigger and more famous

Connecting Tunnel

. The best was when I walked in a room and saw a huge painting with the initials "O.T." scawled in the corner. Suddenly it hit me that these were the Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. (Drawings of Patient O.T.) referred to in the title of Einst�rzende Neubauten's 1983 album. I was amazed.

That evening me and my friend Sara went to the Gasometer, this huge series of five solos that formerly housed some sort of gas, but are now a mall and apartments. It was pretty cool. I took some pictures. Apparently, there's a stage somewhere in there, as Nine Inch Nails is playing there is a couple months, and my friends Keagan and Niza have tickets. I took some pictures because it was cool.

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