Austria

well today has been a good day. i woke up very early, the earliest i have woken up on my trip, i woke up at 7am!! i was so anxious to go out and see Salzburg, the place i have dreamed of going for over half my life. i had breakfast here at the hostal and i was out on the street by 9am. As i was walking into the city i was looking at all the mountains around me and i started smiling to myself thinking "im in salzburg!" i walked around the city and then stopped in the information office to see about the sound of music tours i was so desperate to go on. i decided i would go on the 2pm tour, so i walked all around the city and took many many pictures. i ran into an older woman that is staying in my room, we had lunche and talked. she is a writer her name is linda, shes 68 and lives in florida. shes travelling around the world for a year. we had great conversation about life and travelling and compared cities we had been to. well it was getting close to 2pm so i went to the information office to get on my sound of music tour bus. the tour guide was absolutely fantastic cause he would kind of make fun of the fact people get carted around salzburg to see the gazeebo leazil and rolf sang im 16 going on 17. they played the whole sound of music sound track everywhere we went which was fantastic cause i was living my dream while i listened to the music that drew me to the place. They took us out to the countryside where they filmed the scenes in the beginnig of the movie. while we were drivig out i was trying to find myself a green hill to come back to to sing the sound of music on while i would twirl around. anyways after my tour i ate a sandwich and came back to the hostel just in time to watch the sound of music which they play everyday at 8pm. while i was watching the begnning where they show the scenery of Austria, i recognized all the places, i had been there not to long ago. then when julie andrews started to sing on the green hill i started to cry, i was moved for the fact that i had been there, so many years i dreamed of that and talked about it, so many, i was emotional i almost had to leave cause it was a bit much to cry over the sound of music but it was the fact i made that dream come true, i did it, after all these years. all the places they filmed in salzburg i saw, i recognized the city and places, it was a feeling of complete happiness and accomplishment, just like when i moved to El Escorial, when i became a teacher, and when i danced sevillanas at the feria de sevilla. i have many dreams, i can do them, but some or more important than others. i want to see a lion in the serengheti and go to the great wall of china, i want to see penguins in antartica and visit buenos aires. but then there are dreams which are much more important to me, like going to salzburg and singing the sound of music on a little green hill, or moving to El Escorial, becoming a historian, or dancing sevillanas at the feria, becoming a teacher, and of course going to Machu Pichu in Peru and having my own personal llama carry my things. I love making my dreams come true, even though they are very hard to do and you have to work very hard to do them, its the best feeling in the world, i recommend it to everyone, make dreams come true, i couldnt live without knowing i will make them come true. The hardest thing to do in life is to truely do what you want to do, no matter what it is.

Ten years ago when i was living with jessica nd marissa and working at Caffe D´Amor (remember girls?) there was this calendar at my desk. and in that calender there was a picture on ever month of villages all over europe. i tore out all the pictures and kept them and said to myself i would visit all of those places one day. i still have those pictures and have them with me in madrid. one of the places in that calendar is of a town called Halsatt in Austria. Gorgeous place tucked away in the moutains and by a lake. Tommorow i am going to halstatt, i am going to my first place in my calendar, even though its taken 10 years, im going tommorow, i did it, im going to one of my pictures in my calendar, that silly little dream people would laugh at and go "yeah right" i am going damn it, i was really serious about my calendar, it just took some time.

Today was a memorable day for me cause i was somewhere i had always dreamed of visiting for the silly little reson of the movie, but i dont care, its my dream, and it fills my heart, and i look forwad to seeing my penguins one day and and visiting Machu Pichu. all in good time.

Well i havent had very much time in Vienna to write. I walked all over the city and it was absolutely beautiful, gorgeous, wish you were here. i met a canadian girl in my room and we went out for dinner and went to this permanent carnival in Vienna and had a great time going on roller coasters and fun houses. Then we went out for a beer on the way back to the hostal (after we were lost for an hour and a half trying to find the right tram back to where we had to go) well we met 3 canadians at the bar and we ended up going out really late and i ended the night by dancing with a canadian flag while the sun came up in Vienna. after my performance with the canadian flag I went back to the hostal to pack then i took a train to Salzburg where i am at now and i am going to sleep and then i am going to wake up around 8pm to watch the sound of music which they play every night here at the hostal. i have 4 nights booked here and i am sooooooooooo doing the tourist sound of music thing, i am going soooo prepared with my camera and everything tommorow on my sound of music tour. i almost starting crying when i was on the bus on the way to my hostal and i saw the place where they sang "doe a deer" when they are on steps by a fountain and statues, i was like "oh my god look, oh jesus oh my god" anyway, i am doing EVERY sound of music thing i dont care how cheesy it is, i have wanted to come here because of that movie for more than half my life and i am not holding back. my new canadian friend, Cati, asked if i wanted to go to Romania with her, i told her i would love to but i have to go to salzburg, and she was like "ah its not that great, its whatever blah blah blah" i was like no you DONT understand i HAVE to go to salzburg its very important and its the only place on my trip that was a must see.

anyways one of the friends i made in Estonia (Mike) took picturs with his digital camera and has sent me the website where you can view them you have to click on "travelling buddies" there are pictures of me, Georg, Ana and Pambos. there are also pictures of some people i dont know and interesting characters from the hostal in Riga

http://www.flickr.com/photos/an_agent/sets/

its almost 4 am and im having a blast im bonding with german people´in austria and drinking beer and talking about the fermentation of beer in germany and a 86 year old grandma helped me find my hostel today!! i must go to heilderberg in germany where i have been invited!!! this guy who works reception is finding informationm for me to go to halstatt, austria where i have had a picture of for 10 years and always wanted to go anyways ill write better tommrow, right now they are playing the rolling stones "paint it black" i see a white dog and i want to paint it black!!! i ove this song!!!!!!!!!!
ausria rocks!!!