We made it!

I am officially IN AUSTRIA. We finally got here after three flights over 10 hours of flying and 6 hours of layovers. Obviously we were all dead after we got off our last flight around 10:30 am Austria time, but in order to get ourselves use to the time change we weren't allowed to sleep. We left straight from the Vienna airport and got on a bus that drove us an hour and a half to Mörbisch, a little town right next to the Austrian border. I tried to stay awake on the bus ride to take in all the scenery, but there was just no way. However, I did catch little glimpses of it and it is so beautiful. When we got to our hotel in Mörbisch, we moved into our rooms and had lunch. We've noticed the the food is pretty dense here and that similar foods are served for lunch and dinner.
After lunch we had a couple of hours of free time, and the professors told us that we could rent bikes and RIDE THEM TO HUNGARY. We did it and it was insane. One minute we were in Austria with all the signs in German and the next minute and horse and buggy was riding past us and the people were talking to us in Hungarian. We rode past what used to be a border control station, and now there's just a line across the road showing you where the border is. We weren't even sure we were in Hungary at first because none of the signs were in English and when we tried to ask someone people could only speak Hungarian or German. But it was so cool and the countryside is so amazing to look at. We also went to the bank and exchanged dollars for euros, and our bikes only cost us two euros which seemed super cheap to us.
There's only one main street in Mörbisch so after we returned our bikes we walked down the main street and got gelato. The buildings here are so different from anything in the U.S. because they're all connected and each building or house has it's own courtyard and huge garden. It really looks so adorable and a bit of what you might have seen in pictures of little towns in Europe but it's so different until you've seen it in person.
Today we had a breakfast of bread, fruit, cold cuts, and cheese, and then had our first German instruction. I know almost no German so I really need the help. We basically just learned greetings for hello and goodbye and also went through numbers up to 20. We also learned "bitte" means please and "danke" means thank you, and all of this we need in this little town because a lot less people speak English here than they will in Vienna. We also got our Austrian cell phones today and talked about what our housing in Vienna is going to be like, which I am super excited for. We're starting our classes here in Mörbisch and we have our first one today and it should be a lot of fun.
I've only been here for about a day but I am already loving it. Tschüss for now!