Graffiti in Vienna. 'Wir greifen immer mehr und begreifen immer weniger', translates as 'we want more and more and understand less'.
It's 10pm and I still have my bikini on under my vest and shorts, got a few tan lines after spending 5 hours at an outdoor swimming pool in 32 degrees heat (we applied suncream by the bucket load!) It should've been more exhausting, constantly going up the stairs to slide down various slides with the 5 year old as well as teaching him how to swim, but I think my inner child came out to play and I had just as much fun as him! The most tiring was trying to get the 2 year old to not try and escape from me and find his Mum... I keep worrying when he screams for his Mum and pushes away from me that people will think I'm kidnapping him, especially as he has bright blonde hair and doesn't look like mine!
Also today, one of the parents' friends, Tony, a farmer (very jealous of his tan from being outside all day!) came over today and asked me to give him English lessons. He speaks the dialect and not Hochdeutsch so it's gonna be interesting!
I go through phases of wanting to be more chatty/confident and thinking about what I 'should' be, when all I really 'should' be is me, maybe a bit on the quiet side, or maybe just a good listener?! Though I would often think that wasn't good enough. Good enough for who? As we all know "those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter" and I am coming to the realisation that you can't really change some people's opinions of you, especially if they take a dislike to you for no reason!
Tomorrow I don't need to work so some exploring in Vienna is on the cards! Really need to make some friends though, I am going to exhaust all Couchsurfing and Facebook options!
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