Dirndls and Water Slides

One of our first weekends here, we had a really unique and awesome opportunity. The school was celebrating 20 years of having an Austrian program in Gaming, and there was a special mass with the bishop at the Kartause, and barbecue. We all got to dress in the traditional Austrian outfits; the girls got dirndls, and the guys got lederhosen. Let me tell you, at first I was not going to get the outfit. Everyone was really excited about them, and literally the school had two nights when the 130 girls who live in the Kartause this semester all packed into a room and picked out their Austrian outfits. We usually only rent them at the end of the semester for the Austrian ball, and then if we want to buy them we can. I almost didn't get one, because I didn't understand the big deal, but now I am really glad I did. Almost every girl was wearing one the day of the anniversary celebration, and it was really fun seeing everyone all decked out.
It was a wicked hot day, and after the barbeque, we went to the local pool for the day, and it was CRAZY FUN! It was the very last day the pool was open, which was weird because we continued to have nice weather into the beginning of October. They had a huge water slide and a high diving board, which I went off for the first time ever. As which everything we seem to do, there were at least 50 Franciscan people that converged on the community, and it was a blast.