Day Nr. 2 - A pleasant surprise

Today, Saturday, was the second day of my new life here in Austria. It was a fairly casual day until the evening. Dad, the two small guys and me went shopping together (Grocery shops are definitely smaller here)
We had to go to the next town to do that (which is 10 minutes by car) and I drove. It was quite interesting, since I had driven only about 5 times during the last 2 years, but it came back quite quickly, especially since I drove the car I made my driver's license with. (A Skoda Felicia, an eastern brand that does not exist in America)
In the afternoon we celebrated Dad's birthday and for the evening my sister invited me to go to Vienna with her, just to hang out. Well, we went, but in truth she had prepared a surprise party for me, where surely 15 friends of mine had shown up. I really had no clue and was quite speechless. It was very nice to see so many of them again. With most I had had a hard time staying in contact with over the two years. Probably since we both were busy and had full lives (Especially my last semester was quite overloaded) The more I was surprised that so many came just for me.
A note for all you people from other cultures that read this blog: It might be hard to make Austrian friends, but once you have them, they are very loyal/faithful.
To welcome me back and to fully integrate me back into the Austrian culture my sister had chosen a quite famous and traditional "Schnitzel" restaurant. The food was delicious indeed, not even anywhere close to that stuff they call food in the cafeteria. (Thank you Jesus! No more cafeteria)
Here is a picture of an average "Schnitzel" (A typical Viennese dish)


Since I now came back to stay in Austria they in a joking way naturalized me as Austrian citizen. (Just for the record: I am still Swiss :-P )
I got a T-Shirt with the Austrian flag on it and everybody signed on it. My friend Markus (whom some still might know since he visited me at CFNI in spring 2008) even gave me an Austria scarf, like the soccer fans take them to the stadions. And to top it off my other friend Lydia had brought some face paint, with which she painted an Austria flag on my cheeks.
Well, here's the proof picture:

I took it just about half an hour ago in my room. it shows the T-Shirt, scarf and face paint.