A Cold City

Every day it gets a little colder here in Vienna, and in a rather suprising display of its latitude the sun sets a little earlier every day as well. Right now the average time for sunset is somewhere around four o'clock in the afternoon. The wind here makes me wish that I had chosen to bring long underwear, but in just 25 days I will be back in a similarly freezing Indiana, the long-johns close at hand. Today is Thanksgiving, and in an hour or so our group is meeting together in a Church Basement near Thaliastraße for a "pitch-in" with our host families and a few other people not on our program but somehow related to it. Seeing Wien from the 23rd district is very different than my previous experiences, which focused on the 16th, 1st and 2nd districts almost exclusively. There's a very different feeling in Vienna than in Berlin, and for some reason the Austrian capital city feels much larger, much grander than Berlin. The buses, however, are sadly not as reliably as in Germany.