Green American Dream

On friday the 3rd of august, I had my fare-well party back home in upper austria. I must admit it was quite a bad time for a fair-well party, since so many people were on vacation or had to work, but some of my closest friends took the time to party with me a last time. The whole thing started at 9 o'clock with a little chit-chat and nice drinking.

A little later, they all surprised me with presents like cakes decorated with fruites like the austrian and the american flag. That was such a nice idea ... and such a tasty one too! :)
They also made a kind of a friendbook, where a lot of them wrote personal stuff in it with photos and letters and little presents. I was very overwhelmed by that, and allready read it severl times so far, and I will open it another dozen times the coming year, that's for sure.

After that the whole party actually started, we drank booz from a bucket through straws or sniffing snuff, the switzerland tradition which keeps Jonas alive. We partied untill 6 o'clock in the morning - and it was such a nice end. It really was. Thanks to all for coming, I really appreciated it.

Here, you can find the pictures of the party:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fincher85/sets/72157601208780212/

The day after, we cleaned the house and Astrid drove Manuel and me to the train station in Linz, since he was going to London this day and I drove to vienna for a last night out. I met Michael there. We watched the Simpsons movie, in english of course, and went out in vienna - unfortunately I was pretty tired from the party last night, that we went home at 2 o'clock am and went to sleep in order to be full of energy for the journy to the United States of America the next day.