Baby, Its Cold Outside..

Yea. Its July. 9 degrees is not acceptable in the morning. But this is Austria people! It is normal? I actually have no idea. It is snowing in the mountains in the middle of summer, even the Austrians think it is weird. But while it has been raining it has been good to just sit and hang out with people who would otherwise be off doing adventurous things that you can't go with them on because you are working when they leave for the day. For instance, we watched The Emperor's New Groove - a movie that I have not viewed since I was a wee little thing - and Catch Me If You Can, which is just a very interesting movie that I have only seen once where Leonardo once again plays some mastermind smart guy. I also attempted to play this game called.. Catan something? Yea.. note the word 'attempted'. I sewed on buttons onto shorts of those unfortunate Upward Bound students who never learned how to sew, drank a lot of coffee to stay warm and awake, made many trips to Spar, painted nails and most people know that I like clouds so yea..
The UB student's tenting tour got shoved back 2 days because we know how much not fun it is to tent in the rain. So whilst they were supposed to leave on monday they instead left yesterday, on wednesday. So on monday and tuesday they got split into two groups, one going on a hike and the other doing a klettersteig.
Conveniently my day off is on tuesdays so I got to go do the klettersteig with them! It was very cool. This is how I have described my experience to those who asked me, I enjoyed myself but I didn't think it was fun.. I perhaps may have enjoyed myself more if I had had on climbing shoes rather than hiking boots because it was pretty much rock climbing. But just getting to go out and see Austria is just such a blessing. So while I am freaking out and taking pictures of like a hill, the UB students are like 'What hill?' Cause they spend their entire experience here in the mountains and surrounded by complete beauty so when I get to go out and see God's creation I am just blown away! But for reals people. This was by a water fall that was just incredible and down the valley had high snow capped mountains in the distance. I was in scenery heaven.
One of my proudest moments occurred while on that kletterstieg. Heli (the ultimate mountain guide) told me that I was a 'strong girl'. Cause there was this one difficult part and he was asking me if I needed help and I said that I should be okay so I got to the top and he asked if I still had energy and I was like 'Yea!' and he goes, "Wow, you are such a strong girl." All shocked like. It was amazing. I became a woman in that moment.
So I just finished watching Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers in German. I figured I had seen it so much in English that I should change it up a little bit. I enjoyed the different voices that they had for the characters. My favourite was Gollum's voice. It sounded like an old lady voice..
Yesterday we were cleaning in the kitchen and the girls decided to draw a smiley face on my nose. So I go chill by the bench then decide to go to Spar. They had an amazing sale on chocolate so that was great and of course I needed some coke and I get back and Kerstin and Anna just start laughing at me. So the pen was still on my nose. But I think the weirdest thing was that no one really stared at me strangely.. which is something that concerns me. Is it normal to have pen on your face in Austria?
Setting tables is so quiet when the students are gone. It is like an event while they are here. The best part of meals is the setting the tables afterwards when Brett puts on some music while chewing on a toothpick, I teach people about spoons, Luke and Philip wrestle and throw honey and containers to each other, Nat is learning German in the kitchen from Lothar and Kristi seems to always be folding napkins. Then there is the seemingly traditional towel wipping (when you twist the towel and snap it and injure people) at the end when we are all done. It is a rather exciting kitchen after meals. :D
The other night we actually had a bit of a nail painting party. So the UB people were at their team meetings and I was kicking back in the foyer painting my nails and waiting for Taylor to try and call me when the meetings finish and so people start coming through the door, so I politely offer/ask if they want their nails painted neon orange or bright blue and to my surprise four guys (Flo, Ben x2 and Ian) accepted the offer and are rocking colorful nails! I was pretty excited while others thought it was just straight up weird. I say that they are just jealous that they aren't confident enough to rock the awesome nails :D 
Well it is raining now and I can only hope that the UB students managed to set up their tents before it started pouring buckets. But it is time to go help make dinner! All the guests and students are gone tonight so it is just staff and two of the students that didn't go on the tour, Flo dislocated his shoulder on a playground after doing the Klettersteig safely... and Alex has the flu! Kerstin, Anna and I are making Thai and Kendra is making cookies for dessert. Should be a tasty night! I bid you, adieu.