Meetings, meetings, and oh I live here??

Mmm finally got to sleep in yesterday. Oh wait. Franciscan wants us up early every morning for meetings. And not interesting meetings either. After a 2 hour meeting we were given a tour of the Kartause, because our school is like a tourist destination... seriously!! We walked through the Byzantine Chapel, painted by students. The Baroque library which is stunning, the garden and mini-museum, and realized just how blessed we are to stay in such a place.

We picked up our books and I did laundry and ate dinner with my friends.
It was a pretty chill day, with the exception of another meeting explaining more rules....
Our Fitness room is pretty great though, and Lauren and I took a chance at being embarrassed by our lack of knowledge about all the machines and fit in a quick work out.

Wednesday he also had meetings, ones I literally did not listen to a word of.... oops. But the highlight of the day was walking through Gaming on the way to mass in the local parish. Gaming is adorable. It's exactly what I thought an Austrian town would look like. There's little shops, and cafes and the Church is magnificent. Seriously every church I have been in has blown my mind!

It was in English, although we do say the Our Father in German at every mass, which sound more like a cacophony of people mumbling and clearing their throats. After Mass we talked with some locals. About 7 Austrian boys around the age of 14 who were surprisingly very good at English and who were very excited to recieve an american dollar bill from me!

To end the night we had a bon fire out side the Kartause with smores! It was surreal! We were sitting by a warm fire looking out into the starry sky surrounded by mountains.