36 Years Ago

36 Years Ago, Vienna 1971—A Student Journal

Day 154: Great skiing at Valhalla

Day 154 — Great skiing at Valhalla
03-January-1972 (Mon.)


Cable car to Valhalla
A quality day of ski lessons and skiing at St. Anton and the cable car to Valhalla. Nice.

Suddenly I'm Don Juan, meeting girls all over the place.
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Day 104: Homesick, girlsick

Day 104 — Homesick, girlsick
14-November-1971 (Sun.)


I’m tired. I’m homesick. I’m girlsick. Where is my new girlfriend?
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Day 097: Grab that shovel—Dig up your past

Day 97 — Grab that shovel—Dig up your past
07-November-1971 (Sun.)

While 1971 is a great day for music with two concerts, 2007 sees me digging up my past. I am having a blast and it is bringing up great memories, some slightly corny love songs, and a ton of music-on-tape that I haven’t heard in decades. I am so excited, that I ramble on forever in today’s posting.

I encourage you to do the same. Dig up your past and enjoy those memories.
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Day 079: John joins the Vienna Boys' Choir; Grammar Girl questions

Day 79 — John joins the Vienna Boys' Choir; Grammar Girl questions
20-October-1971 (Wed.)

John joins the Vienna Boys Choir
The big news is that I join the Vienna Boys' Choir. There is even a photo of me. I start my first day in electronic music, attending an acoustics class. And I have fond recollections of my new-found friend Alan [Civil, 1st horn of the BBC Symphony Orchestra] from yesterday.

I talk a lot about my writing style in this post and pose questions for Grammar Girl—should I be “true” to the journal?
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Day 070: Music theory, in German

Day 70 — Music theory, in German
11-October-1971 (Mon.)


Yay, I register for school and attend my first music theory class. It’s in German. Duh, what did I expect? Well, it’s more difficult than I imagined. This brings me to a discussion of foreign students in ESL classes. I can now relate.

I decide to write an opera, and some lyrics for a song for Anjali. Happy
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Day 069: The early bird gets the book

Day 69 — The early bird gets the book
10-October-1971 (Sun.)

Brass band in park
Today is such a jam-packed day—from the early-bird in line for tickets, to a morning mass, reading books, walking in the park, taking pictures, and ending with a night opera—today was, well, jam-packed.

I take a tangent on the
benefits of reading. I’ll throw in a bunch of pictures if you promise to read about reading.
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Day 032: Amusement at Prater

Day 32 — Amusement at Prater
03-September-1971 (Fri.)

The Prater ferris wheel
A day at Vienna’s Prater amusement park with Anjali. I get a little dizzy, lose in ping pong, and eat a lot. As an aside, I comment on my use of emdashes and thus address some of the grammar issues of my journal writing, and plea to Grammar Girl to set me straight.

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