Number 2: "Fasching"

According to my last post I decide to chose number 2
“Fasching is almost the same as Mardi Gras”

We have in Austria almost the same as Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It is called “Fasching” and also known as fifth season of the year. It is also combined with many customs and we celebrate with it the end of the “dark” winter season and the beginning of spring. It should also banish the winter. Fasching starts on 11th November at 11:11 AM and ends on Tuesday before Ash-Wednesday. We celebrate it every year and it is completely the opposite of lent. During the last month there are many customs and traditions. The highlight is from Saturday till Tuesday before Ash-Wednesday. At this time, we have many parades and all the people are masked. There are also parties, events and performances and you can also see some “Fasching-meetings” on the TV. In this shows; actors make sketches about the past year, politicians and some interesting things which happened. We also always put funny and colorful decorations in our homes and you also can see some in the cities and in shop-windows.

Parade in Graz

My Mindset List

I was thinking about my own mindset list and these are my results:

1.) I always have been addicted to coffee!!!!
2.) Mardi Gras has always been the same as "Fasching" in Austria!
3.) I've always liked fiction movies, as for example: "twilight", "Stardust" or "The Lord of the Rings"
4.) the next ice age is coming.
5.) Since Spring Break I have travel fever.
6.) London, Rome and Venice are amazing. You must have seen these cities.
7.) In 2050, the last glacier are melted in in the alpes.

My Mindset list 2012

These are my 5 interesting or humorous items out of 75 according to the website http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2009.php

22. For daily caffeine emergencies, Starbucks has always been around the corner. (Oh that works definitely for me I’m addicted to cafe, but why always around a corner?)
48. Snowboarding has always been a popular winter pastime. (I agree!! It is one of my favorite hobbies but I believe that skiing is a bit more common)
50. Biosphere 2 has always been trying to create a revolution in the life sciences. (But the project failed or? They couldn't create sufficiently an artificial world without any external influences.)
51. The Hubble Telescope has always been focused on new frontiers. (It is focused on new frontiers in an area without frontiers!! But the pictures are amazing and some looking partial unreal.)
54. They never saw the shuttle Challenger fly (I know from the disaster in the year 1986 and it was a bad setback for the NASA. But I think the shuttle flow or? )

Watching

My favorite view point on the campus is a window place in the café in the Davis Center. I drink nearly every day my coffee there and I love it because you have a perfect view outside and what happen around. And when the sun is shining that makes me happy. In the "rush hour" after the classes are a lot of people there and it is hard to find a place. The students and faculty meeting friends, talking, reading a book or doing their homework in the cafe. But the best time is in the early morning short after 7:00 AM. It is the time in the day which is only for me and I can relax and enjoy my coffee. I can observe how slowly the day starts, outdoor I can see the smelting ice and snow. I will go there also the next few weeks.