When European Buildings Attack!!!!!

So today has been a very eventful day, however, I need to describe more in detail yesterday's events since I failed to do so in my last post:

We arrived at Vienna, Austria around 8:30 in the morning and drove for an hour to Bratislava. We had an hour to get things situated in our rooms then we had lunch. After that it was run! run! run! to get all of our practical needs around for transportation and what not. We also got a quick tour of the older part of Bratislava. When we got back we ate a very good dinner of fried cheese with sauce (it was ridiculously delicious!) and potatoes (we have a form of potatoes with every meal. . . hopefully it won't get old). Afterwards we all went to bed early because we were exhausted. . . . and now. . . back to the present. . . .

Today was quite a day. this morning I woke up late, plugged my straightener into a converter and the straightener got fried. . . literally. . . the plastic around the ceramic tiles began to melt and smoke. . . I had to run it out onto the balcony and leave it there all day to cool down. Then after breakfast we were taking a tour of the classrooms and the area surrounding the building. While we were walking up a set of stairs, they became more narrow because a building jutted out, I was looking down, heard my name called, looked up and smacked my head into the wall. . it was quite a "me" moment.
The rest of the day wasn't quite treacherous. We spent the majority of the time at a super mall so we could open accounts with a local bank to cut living costs here. While we were there we did some minor grocery shopping then we came back for a supper of spaghetti noodles with ketchup and cheese. Surprisingly, it wasn't that bad but definitely not one of my favorites.
Afterwards we met with some Slovak students who also speak English. We had traditional "tea" together as a meet and greet. As part of the tradition, there was some wine in the tea. . . I only had a few sips because the wine made the tea taste funky and I didn't want to upset my stomach. The students were very welcoming and we all got along great. We then left and went to a local bar with the students. I only had coke but I tired one of my friend's drinks, it was a type of liquor and it tasted pretty good, like vanilla eggnog. The bar was small and we stayed until 10 then we returned, played some cards and now I am here writing about it all. . .

These blogs will probably not be as frequent from here on out because I will be beginning classes and that means homework and class time. So that's that.