Yesterday night

Dear reader,

Yesterday we went out for (last) supper with my roommate Constanze. She's been at the Office for International Relations of the University of Graz for a practice for three months. Today she is going back to Dresden, Germany. That she leaves makes me a bit sad, because she's been a very funny person and we came along with each other pretty well! I'm very curious now, how will become my new roommate, how he or she will be and of course there's the fear that it could be a messy person.

Actually, I wanted to tell you about tomorrow night, because it was quiet awesome and that't also the reason why I couldn't really concentrate in the English and Turkish lesson this morning. First we met with Alex (from Canada) and Nina (from Austria) at "Glöcklbräu" at Glockenspielplatz. Then Alfredo ("the Spanish guy"), Basti (a friend of Nina), Johannes (my other roommate) and Helena (a Macedonian girl) arrived; altogether people Constanze met here in Austria. Ah, and I forgot Severio, "the Italian guy". We had a good time there! It's been quite an hilarious supper and also quite "multi-lingual". Alex and Helena spoke perfect German, but we all changed between English and German and no one really sticked to one language. Later on we exchanged Spanish, Italian and Macedonian insults too...

By the way, I can really recommend "Glöcklbräu" to you! They've got there own sorts of beer, which are very good, and the dishes are delicious and portions are pretty big. The dishes are typically Austrian and you feel very comfortable there. I had "Käsespätzle" I could fairly it them up, but they were great. As a desert I had "Topfenknödel" (is it quark dumplings?) with raspberry puree. I really thought I was going to burst after I ate up everything!

Afterwards we wanted to go to the Office Pub. I didn't expect it to be so big! But that was around 10 o'clock and Tuesday is quiz night so we couldn't find a place. So we went to "Molly Maloon's" an Irish pub in Färbergasse. It's a very nice location! There I also found out what a "pitcher" is... Normally I don't drink that much - I felt that very early.

I also got to know a very nice Irish guy (from Cork) who is studying Music/Guitar here in Graz. There's also two friends of him who came here to visit him: Olivia is from The Bronx, NYC and Lisa from Ireland too (Dublin). I had a very nice chat with Lisa, who is a teacher for singing. I asked her what she does and if she was teaching a show choir and if she knew the TV series "Glee". She said yes, she's having her own glee club and going to competitions with them and she started laughing, because we found out that we share the same passion for that series! She also told me that she met the Glee cast in a pub in Dublin! - Can you imagine that? She went to the toilette and when she got back she just ran into Santana! They where staying there the whole night, singing and dancing and the got really drunk!

I exchanged phone numbers with them and maybe we'll meet again this night.

We got back somewhat after midnight - so I haven't had enough sleep last night, but it was a great night and I met so many nice people!

Maybe you wanna join me.

Enough for now,

Alex

Felix is going to jump from 36 km height!

I'm know following the Mission Stratos since almost 11.30, which means I'm not sitting in front of the TV all the time since then, but because I'm not really into doing anything today it's quite nice to have a relaxed day. Although the start time has been changed very often the programme is quite interesting, because you here a lot of very interesting facts about the mission itself, as well as genaral facts about everything around it.

Now the capsule started and and Felix Baumgartner is going up.
I am so excited! Must be a great moment in Felix' life!
If you're reading this and got interested: Turn on you TV. ServusTV. Or try servustv.com for the life stream - but I think the server just shut down.
35 minutes and he has already reached 12.366 meters!
You can see the Earth is a ball!
Unbelievable!

Going to the cinema in Graz

I'm quite sure that most of you out there love going to the cinema, but what if you want to see movies in foreign languages in Graz? Well, maybe you know the KIZ Royale? This is propably the first adress to see movies in their original language. They play English movies as well as movies in Italian, Spanish, French - they even played a movie in Farsi once, if I remember correctly!! It's also not just mainstream cinema - they tend to show movies which may atract only a smaller audience.
You'll find it in Conrad-von-Hötzendorf-Straße 10, that's almost opposite the tax office and not to far from the crossroads at Grazbachgasse. 
On Monday I've been there again and watched "To Rome with Love". The movie was quite funny altough the German subtitles have been very anoying. The movie has been in English and Italian. I know both languages and I understood everything quite well, but the subtitles are just distracting!
The movie itself has been hilarious and a bit weird too. The characters are great and you just love to follow their stories in the movie. The character I loved the most is the one played by Penélope Cruz. She's playing a prostitute that - by chance - got in the hotel room of Antonio, who has just arrived from the province with his girlfriend Milly. But, as Milly got lost in Romehairdresser looking for a hairdresser he introduced the stranger to his relatives, who are very formal people. - As you can imagine, a lot of hilarious moments follow...

Then there are like four other storylines: 
There's, for example, Leopoldo Pisanello who is just an avarage, boring guy. From one day to the other, however, he becomes famous, out of nothing and he's suddenly chased by paparazzi, who want to know about every single detail of his everyday life.
Another loveable character is Jerry (Woody Allen) a retired opera director who just arrived from the States along with his wife Phyllis to meet their daughter's Italian fiancée, Michelangelo. Michelangelo's father, a mortician, turns out to have a great singing voice and so Jerry wants to promote him. And there is the famous architect who meets a young man that just lives the same youth the he lived.
Never forget Milly, Antonios girlfriend, she's got lost in Rome and found herself in the middle of a film set, where she meets her favourite actor, who tries to seduce her and then she finds herself in bed with ...
Agh, maybe you should just watch the movie, else I would end up writing this the next hours. Conclunding, I would say that the movie is very funny and a little bit confusing at the same time - which is quite normal for movies directed by Woody Allen, people told me. There's also a lot of moral in it, you'll see some places of picturesque Rome and it's always great listening to some Italian. I do recommend watching this movie!
Here you'll find the programme: http://www.uncut.at/graz/kizroyal/
Enjoy watching it!!