Sometimes... I like to dress cute.

I woke up this morning and thought, "Self you need to wear a cute outfit." So I did. I showered [not that I normally don't or something]. Did my hair AND make-up and picked an outfit that took more than 3 seconds. Goodbye jeans, hellooooooooooooooo skirt.

Okay bye for now.

love,
krystle

Enough.

Girls are born:

1. with beautiful gifts and burdens

2. to be taught

3. to connect, to collect, and to be perfect

4. to feel and to deal

5. to take it

6. to cry and by shy

7. to love

8. to tell

Boys are born 

1. with privileges girls don't even take into account

2. to be told

3. to be looked after, to be looked up to, and to keep the two apart

4. to be strong and to admit being wrong

5. to go at it

6. to pile and to smile

7. to prove 

8. to sell 

10.10.10.

It just so happens that today is my birthday. AND that I am turning 21. Not that it makes so much of a difference... the whole not drinking thing makes the anticipation of 21 a little less enthralling, but NEVERTHELESS. Birthdays. I LOVE them. So much that it requires an excess use of capital letters.

{my lovely friend Kayla made me this cake. she's a doll. plus it was delicious}

Here is to turning 21. Yay.

love,
krystle

Simple.

Proof that I actually love red.

Do you see this journal here? It is one of my favorite birthday presents that I gave myself this month. You can check them out here.

Today was a U-Turn kind of day and yes I am at peace with my hair. 

:]

Red.

I may be turning into a red girl.

For the longest time my favorite color has been green. I was always drawn to the cooler side of the color pallet. But now when I find myself looking at journals, or pens, trying to decide what color I HAVE to have, I am being habitually drawn to Red.

There you have it.

Red may just be my new favorite color.

Hello.

After my hiatus from the blogging world I am back. 

Ten Things I have Learned About Myself and Life:

1. I am a realist, but have romantic tendencies.

2. I could live off Gelato and candy.

3. I can't control my emotions nearly as well as I thought I could.

4. I am a lot more fun to be around when I am not worrying about what others think.

5. I choose to make situations awkward.

6. I want Prince Charming. 

7. I love walking. 

8. I write in my journal to help me figure out what is going on in my life. 

9. I become better because of the people I surround myself with not because of the places I travel. 

10. I love traveling, but that was to be expected :]

I spent the summer living in Vienna, Austria.

It changed my life. Those adventures can be read about here at www.attemptingadventure.blogspot.com.

Book.

I am about to be published :]

This is my Vienna. by Krystle Wahnschaffe | Make Your Own Book

Once.

There was a time when I blogged avidly about my life and adventures.

I think I want to start that again, but now life just seems kind of boring. Does that make me seem pathetic?

I mean I spent the summer exploring Europe, which makes my life now seem a little blah. Not that I don't love my life! Don't get me wrong, but really... how interesting can my days of watching movies and working be compared to Austrian and Italian adventures?

I NEED MOTIVATION.

I leave to go to Utah this week. Crazy how fast time goes by when you are just hanging out with your family. You know I have only been home for 3 weeks this year? Guess that means I am growing up or something.

love,
Krystle

Day 87.

So maybe there were only 87 days instead of 88. Something to do with the whole losing a whole day traveling here thing.

I leave today and while it fells like I have been here forever it just hasn't been long enough.

I want to blog about it, but if I don't then it is like it's not real.

Which is what I want. Just to stay.

Silly how that works huh?

love,
Krystle

Day 85.

Two words: SHOPPING BONANZA!

After de-registering :[ from the Austrian government Breanna and I decided that we would finish all of our souvenir/present shopping in one afternoon. Boy oh boy did we succeed. I have never spent so much money in such a short amount of time. My family better be please with their presents :]

Monumental occasion: LAST GERMAN CLASS EVER! (I am in love with the Caps as of late. Please forgive me) So nuts. I have been taking German for two hours a day as long as I can remember. I can finally form sentences and not have people laugh at me. Match Mir Spass! Gosh... I miss English. One thing about America most people speak English and I am sure excited to return to it. Our teacher this semester Sebastien is a real charmer. Is a thirty something bald Austrian man that really likes to laugh at us. He was awesome. I have a final tomorrow and then it is all over. Weird.

At the Plummers house tonight we had our final party with the Study Abroad group. We were all presented awards. I was given the INDIE/GANGSTER award. Surprising no?

I think I am getting all nostalgic. I mean I have spent the whole summer thinking that this study abroad would never end. Three months seems like an eternity at the beginning and then it is over... like it never even happened. Tomorrow is the last day. Whoa. This whole thing has changed me. I feel like a better person. The people that I have been surrounded with this whole summer have helped me to become more of who I want to be. I am so lucky to have them in my life. I can't imagine what it is going to be like not seeing all of them all day everyday.

Well. Here goes nothing. 36 hours left.

love, Krystle

Day 84.

Today we started off at Schonbrunn. I have been there lots before, but today was the decided day that we would tour in the inside of the palace. I wish that I could say that I enjoyed it but as a matter of fact I HATED IT. Why you may ask. Well I will tell you... TOO MANY PEOPLE. I am using the CAPS for emphasis because it really was terrible. I hate feeling like a tourist. I live here for goodness sake and the palace was packed like sardines. William, Chip, and Kayla all had to listen to my rantings after we exited.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE... TODAY I GRAFFITIED A WALL IN VIENNA!

Yes yours truely was involved in an act of defacing public property. Cross that one off of my bucket list. There are tons of pictures on Facebook if you feel like stalking me.

I think I missed my calling in life. 

School was intense. German will be over in a mere 2 days. How stoked am I? For dinner we headed over to the Rathhaus. It has turned into a routine of sorts. There are so many places to choose from that everyone gets to eat exactly what they want and we can all still sit together.

Have I mentioned that I love Vienna? I love it here. I am excited to return to the U.S.A. but I am mighty sad that I have to leave.

Day 83.

My last Sunday in Vienna.

I went to Church.

Ate my last meal with Frau.

Maybe I cried a little bit.

Pocket Full of Sunshine.

So Kayla and I have a lot of fun together doing random things. One of which is watching Youtube videos. Maybe you won't find this nearly as funny as we did... but that doesn't mean that we didn't watch it about 12 times in a row. Enjoy. :]

Day 82.

One Word: JONSI.

Today I went to the Jonsi concert and it changed my life.



Here is just a taste of what it was like. I was there. In Vienna. Seeing it Live. And I am pretty sure that Life really can't get any better.

Sleeping Beauty

I.

Year after year unto her feet,
She lying on her couch alone,
Across the purple coverlet,
The maiden’s jet-black hair has grown,
On either side her tranced form
Forth streaming from a braid of pearl:
The slumbrous light is rich and warm,
And moves not on the rounded curl.

II.

The silk star-broider’d coverlid
Unto her limbs itself doth mould
Languidly ever; and, amid
Her full black ringlets downward roll’d,
Glows forth each softly-shadow’d arm
With bracelets of the diamond bright:
Her constant beauty doth inform
Stillness with love, and day with light.

III.

She sleeps: her breathings are not heard
In palace chambers far apart.
The fragrant tresses are not stirr’d
That lie upon her charmed heart.
She sleeps: on either hand upswells
The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest:
She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells
A perfect form in perfect rest.

Lord Alfred Tennyson 

Day 81.

I went to Mauthausen today.

No words I write can do the experience justice.

For more information go here.

Day 80.

Oh gosh guys. This time next week I will be on a plane to America. Holy heck.

Went to the Kuntshaus Historics Museum today where I had the privilege of seeing some Caravaggio. Also. Went to the Vienna Film Festival. Gay version of swan lake anyone? 

I love Vienna. 


Love,
Krystle.

Day 79.

Well in case  you were wondering... the heat is back. Oh joyous occasion.


Lets see today was spent dong things to prevent heat stroke. For example-


*Milkshakes at Einsteins*
*Reading under a tree in the park*
*Gelato at Zanoni*
*Bench Camping on Mariahilfastrasse*


Ya know. Just your average avoid the heat things except oh wait- I am in VIENNA.


Maybe my life is cool. Maybe.

Day 78.

One word- CREPES.

Thank you Jenny Pate for making my life. 

Day 77.

This is the last full week that I have in Vienna. Gosh. Time flies. 

Today I visited the old Hoffburg Palace and learned a lot about Elisabeth of Bavaria. I think I want to read her biography. 

Right now I am reading Anna Karenin by Leo Tolstoy. It is hard to stay motivated in German when all I want to do is read. 

I am itching to play the guitar. That is one thing I am looking forward too back in the states. 

Such is my life. 

{A poem for you}

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

-Robert Frost.

Love,
Krystle