Kalamity Kat hits Austria

OK well it's not exactly much,and it's also pretty much melted now - but it's the first bit we've had since I've been over here. It was kinda annoying though as most of the people in my halls got a tad overexcited and spent all night screaming and having snowball fights outside etc. which just happened to be under my window Heavy snow is forecast for monday though so it could get a little worse.
No matter - it means more excuse not to go out (coldness) and instead more time to do work!! of which I am definately not short of! There is clearly more to be done here than in Lpool but I think that's mostly because we have lots of smaller projects going on at the same time instead of one big one - although all these smaller ones assumer we're going to be putting the work of the big one into each one - obviously not going to happen as there aren't enough hours in the day or week.
Yesterday I spent about 5 hours teaching myself a CAD programme as one of our projects requires the technical drawings to a given building to be presented in CAD format, something we don't do in England...so that wasted a lot of time....and will be wasting more today and tomorrow and there are some things that it is really refusing to do grrrrr. tbf I am just glad that it's even on my laptop and working! Along side that I have an assignment for a computer class to do - another CAD based programme, my design project which is a swimming pool and azora (yup sounds exactly like West Kirby to me) and brick wall to design and model...amongst other things. and no the brick wall is way not simple. for a start each layer can't have any joints in the same place...fair enough....but when the wall has to be a metre thick to support itself and the other walls, then you start having a problem with the joints plus the fact that there have to be 4 layers which alternate all the way up (having 2 would be so much easier)...so i finally worked all that out last night....then had to work out how the corners would work which took a good 3 hours....in short..they don't work but I've sort of made them work! So OK that's all well and good....but now I have to have an opening in the wall and it must only be brick (no concrete or steel supports or lintels) oh dearrrrr that's my job for today. But first I'm off to church for the 1st time in 2 weeks - bad I know. The fact that it is a good 30 minute walk in the freezing cold is not appealing
So that's about it for now I think - thought I'd just have a little bit of an update

So a month after the last post....I finally get round to posting again!
Since then I've been to Croatia with Entwerfen 1 (my design class) for 3 days which was really fun - not only was it pretty warm and sunny.....the place we stayed - Novigrad, a harbour town - was really really beautiful. Photos are on facebook if you want to have a bit of a look.
And since then if I'm being really honest - not that much has happened. The weather here is still pretty good - although it is starting to get colder now and has rained a bit.
The work load atm is pretty huge. Some of our tutors don't seem to think we have a. a life and b. other classes whichis pretty rubbish - and then we have to do stuff like make huge 1:200 site models which are costing us over €30 grrrrrrr. The whole structure of the architecture course here is different - it's more of a sort of lucky dip - choose this and that...but they are all worth virtually nothing in ECTS credits meaning that we, as erasmus students, have to take a million and one as we have so many credits we have to take out here. The austrians on the other hand can take as many or as little as they want - there are some students here in their 26th semester of architecture (yeah they work in semesters out here not years when counting....so 3rd and 4th semester are second year etc.etc.) which is absolutely ridiculous because clearly they're going to be studying for the rest of their lives at this rate!
Anyway...as you've probably gathered I really don't have that much to say....this was more to please people who keep saying "you haven't written on your blog for ages"...i won't say names.....Helen....Mum