It's hard to believe the end is actually here. Tomorrow I'm going back to the States.
The sad thing is, I feel like I really just started to like it here, and get used to it here.
I've made many good friends, and it was great seeing them all one last time at the restaurant where we were served the infamous "swords" dinner: pork and schnitzel skewed on swords! And I can tell I've made a reputation with a few of these people by the fact that I was called to help finish one of the remaining swords.
This was actually all after riding the famous ferris wheel as seen in The Third Man, where I got to look out upon Vienna from above for just one more time, and just ponder.
I've been pondering something for a while - whether or not it's okay to love this city. There are certainly many great things about Vienna, but there have also been a lot of bad things. I've wondered if it is okay to still like a city that has been involved in things too numerous to mention here. But in the end, the good is outweighing the bad for me. I've found so many things to like here. Even the people; I don't seem to mind grumpy Viennese at all! All I know is that I would love to be back here someday. There's still many things that I didn't end up doing.
There's no question that I love the people that I've spent this month with. That was clear as we all took shots together in the restaurant tonight. It's been such an adventure exploring this country alongside them.
This was for sure an experience that I won't forget any time soon. I am afraid I have little else to add to this sweetly sappy blog post other than...auf wiedersehen, Wien.
The last German word of the day is "fremd," meaning "foreign."
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