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Here’s Your Sign – October 19th

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Ice Cream ClosedThis is a new feature on my blog where I will take a picture of an actual sign in Vienna and comment on it’s meaning. I hope you enjoy it.

This is one of the first true signs that summer is over here in Vienna. It is the day when hundreds of ice cream parlors throughout the city close until the warm hints of springtime cause us again to crave a cold treat.

This particular sign is just a block or two from my apartment and makes the best After Eight Mint ice cream in town.

Roughly translated (very roughly), We thank our customers for buying and eating our yummy, yummy ice cream and promise to open back up in the spring with freshly made gelato for all.  Until then we hope your winter will be as nice and warm as ours is down in Italy.

Stay tuned next week for a new sign!

Spiritual Emphasis Week Videos

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My video class did a series of videos for Spiritual Emphasis Week, and we tried to do a variation on the theme of the week: Direction Determines Destination. You can decide how well we follow this theme throughout the series. In any case, my kids did a great job and we had a lot of fun with it.

Here is a link to the playlist on my Youtube account:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3E9A67CB9D3DA7E5

Or you can just watch the embedded youtube clips below. I’d recommend watching them in order. It might make more sense that way.

Vienna Night Run

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Your VCS Running Team

A few other staff members and I ran this year’s Vienna Night Run last Wednesday. It is a 4K that starts and finishes in Vienna’s Museum Quarter and follows the length of the main shopping street in the city. So you can imagine this is a street I spend a lot of time on. You know me, shop til I drop every weekend.

It was a nice, mostly flat run and a great way to motivate myself to get back into running. The one thing I found odd about this course were the post-race snacks which consisted of Krapfen, sugar donuts, and a few other assorted pastries. I don’t know about you, but pure sugar isn’t the most appetizing thing to me right after a hard run. Of course that didn’t stop me from eating a donut, but I did have to wait a little while to drop that on my stomach. Also, I’m pretty sure it’s still better than the turkey liver pate I received after the Marathon I ran a couple of years ago.

You can see more pictures by clicking the Flickr link on my sidebar or by clicking here. 

Video Class

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One of the new classes I picked up this year is a videography class. In this class I have 8 seniors and half of them already knew what they’re doing with a camera before the class even started. So one of the things they’ve been working on are commercials for the Senior Store. Here are the one’s we’ve completed so far. We also did a week long series for Spiritual Emphasis Week that we will be posting later on this week. All future videos will be posting all of our videos on this Youtube group.

Enjoy!

Staff-Student Soccer Game

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staff_student_soccerLast week we also enjoyed a Staff vs. Student soccer game. For those of you who know me, you know that soccer isn’t my best sport, though I did impress myself with a couple of good touches. Though I think those were mostly by accident.

I did have a shot on goal, though…Ok, well it would have been if the goal was about 2 times…make that 3 times as large as it normally is.

In any case, it was a lot of fun even though us teachers ended up on the losing end of this game. Of course, we’re all Americans. We’re not supposed to be good at soccer.