My Last Five Weeks in Kärnten

I've just finished the last five weeks of my assistantship and it feels strange that it's over. There were a lot of things to do after the Christmas holidays, so I didn't have time to take any trips outside of Kärnten, the region of Austria where I was working. However, I did do some more travelling around locally and saw some really nice places. Photos below!

The Amthof and tourist information centre in the town where I was living, Feldkirchen in Kärnten

The lake and castle at Velden am Wörthersee

Villach

Burg Hochosterwitz (This was so impressive to look at, but unfortunately my pictures did not come out well!)

Burg Landskron (my photos didn't really do it justice either)

So now my time in Austria is over and I'm about halfway through my Year Abroad! Doing the teaching assistantship has been a really interesting and useful experience. I'd never had a "proper job" before and I was very nervous before starting work, but I've grown in confidence over the course of the last few months. My German has also improved a lot - I'm not fluent, but I feel much more comfortable speaking now than I did when I first arrived in Austria in September barely able to string two words together!

In a few days time I am off to Chile, where I will be studying at a university. It will be my first time in South America and I'm really really excited! I hope to do a lot of travelling around the country while I'm there, which I will document here on this blog. :)

My New Town

I have been living in Feldkirchen in Kärnten for three and a half weeks now, and I have to say I like it quite a lot. There's not much going on here, but it's a nice town. It has supermarkets, various shops, cafés, restaurants and a train station all within walking distance, which is a huge improvement for me from the tiny village where I live in England!

I'm living in a very nice little apartment within a house (with a cat!), I'm finding my job as an English Language Assistant interesting, and I have plenty of free time to travel around the local area and beyond. So life is pretty good at the moment!

Here are some pictures that I've taken around Feldkirchen:

The view from my apartment

The view from outside my schools

The Hauptplatz

A pretty church

A weird but cool sculpture in the town centre

And another pretty church!


My next post will be coming soon and will probably be about Udine in Italy!