Farewell Fest... Let the tears begin...

Even though I'm writing this 3-4 months after this actually happened, I still can't help but to get really, really sad and choked up when thinking about how sad I was... After the German final, IES students fled to the U4 to head to Hütteldorf out in the 14th district.  From there, we get on shuttlebusses to bring us to a heuriger, a family-owned winery.  Here we were treated to delicious wine and food, and were shown the end of the semester video that two students (shout outs to Catherine and Chris!) made.  The video was amazing and the start of many, many tears.  I said goodbye to some friends at the heuriger, and it was very, very sad.  That night my friend Grace hosted a bunch of us at her house in the 18th district, where she and two other girls had been living in a MANSION.  Not a joke, this thing was huge.  That's when the real tears began... After all the goodbyes and no sleep I had a very hassled trip trough the airport and boarded the plane back to JFK, and cried a lot of the way there.

Rieglerhütte was owned by the Prilisauer family

"Terrace service is reserved for the IES Student Services BBQ in our garden today"

Kent, Pete, and Jack digging in to ribs, potatoes, kebabs, and more.

Me and Allison with Tobi, one of the IES Student Service people.

About the begin the movie!

Jared and Eric, my favorite traveling buddies... we went to Florence, Paris, and Munich together and had SO MUCH FUN!

Nick and Nick... we had so much fun in our Fin de Siécle class.

Me and Carrie

Me and Ben

Me and Pete, lovingly known by all as Payter (that's how Frau Summesberger says his name)

At Grace's house, being comforted (?) by Nick and Jared

Nick and Carrie saying goodbye  

Eric and I were on the same flight home so we spent the night walking along the Ringstraße 

Saying goodbye to the Rathaus was surprisingly really, really sad.

My last look at the Rathaus 

Me and Ellison in front of our apartment 

Auf Wiedersehen Schlafzimmer!

SO.... That's Vienna.  I have one more post coming that I started writing in Vienna that I need to finish up, and then my blog will be done.  Weird.