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ahoi!

my name is hanna. (details? PolyWho!)

PolyPing is the documentation of my experiences in canada: 117 days = 283 blogposts. this is, at least for now, the final entry of my travellog. by now, i am back in austria (teh yurope, that is).

this blog contains my personal experiences and reflections as of this particular time, and might not necessarily represent my present perceptions (oh, the constant state of change!).

keeping that in mind, feel free to read about my haligonian life, my academic explorations as in ethics in public relations, science communication, mass media and public opinion, audiovisual communications and public speaking, my trips to montreal and cape breton, my miamian vacation, and other adventures - or simply watch some foodp0rn, scroll through a few photo/docu experiments, or listen to some of my favourite music or L. & my podcast.

comments? questions? coffee?

after leaving miami by 12:00 local time and 17 hours of travelling, we arrived in vienna thursday morning - and it was the warmest, nicest, sweetest homecoming like ever. texts, calls, messages, fb comments, and so on, and my family helping me to get my stuff from the basement back to my appartment.

plus: my sister + her husband welcoming me with sparkling wine, a fresh viennese coconut-cupcake by E. waiting for me in my fridge...

... an incredibly sweet welcome-poster by E. & R. on my kitchen wall, a decent georgian lunch in my hood at madiani including kick-ass khachapuri, some hours of sleep and an all-siblings-welcome-dinner including the most awesome vegan indian food by my sister and lots of talks and drinks. i even managed to unpack most of my stuff in the night (before falling asleep).

this morning my brother took me to his family in the wachau where i got many many kisses from all my cute little nephews and nieces and tons of even more awesome food (as always).

in the afternoon, we spent some time in their tipi tent in the DonauGarten, having yogi-tea and DIY-popcorn while the snowflakes are dancing through the night...

[wanderlust iPad cover by www.purepleasuredesign.com]

i left canada last week, it's my last night in miami tonight, we just looked up the schedule of the airport bus and stuff. 1 day + 15 hours until vienna.

i am tired and kind of exhausted (partly because of our adventurous naturalist bike trip today, details soon) - but i am also really looking forward to home by now.

besides that, i am feeling more than grateful for the many ways i could satisfy my wanderlust in 2012:

january: lackenhof (LEGEPS)

march: hochkar

april: graz

may: london & birminghamshire

july: berlin & hamburg & hohentauern

august: graz & guca & kotor & mönichkirchen

september: halifax & cape breton

october: halifax & montreal

november: halifax

december: halifax & miami & hohentauern

plans for 2013:

january: lackenhof (LEGEPS)

february: berlin (valentine's madness w/ E.)

... and potentially this spring: rome, paris/lille, warsaw, teneriffa?

... and hopefully one day soon: new york city, ghana, japan, rajahstan, bermuda, brazil, new zealand, iceland, iran, mozambique, saudi arabia, and... the world.

very short update!

THUR, 04:00pm: meet me at the rainbow!

M. and me reaching our airport checkpoint just a few minutes after each other - this awesome corridor with colorful windows and animal noises and jungle sounds at the MIA mover station (trains to the central bus station):

FRI, 11am: first walk at the beach - turquoise water!!

palmtrees:

space invaders:

epic sandcastle:

oh, tumblr, you're alive? let's see if this works...

tumblr was down the entire evening, so i had no chance to post any updates. maybe that wasn't too bad, actually, as i took the time to write a few private messages to some of the people who made my haligonia so special, what i wanted to do anyways.

the cab is leaving in 5,5 hours.

everything is packed except for my thermal flask and a towel. i just need to shut down the computer in order to carry this brick of a macbook thousands of kilometers around the northern hemisphere. nevermind.

yes, i also finished the administrative nitty-gritty: laundry, dinner, packing my stuff, weighing the suitcase (19kg, sweet), weighing the backpack (8kg?! wtf! that's gonna by exciting at the baggage drop...), room check, giving away my kitchen stuff, throwing away all the rest. like my collection of coasts:

the final view of my pin board before tearing it down:

bye bye, room 306:

there was even time to say goodbye to my mexican grrrl S. and to spend some time in the kitchen, where literally every single person that walked into the room reacted to my hair - or rather, the absence of it. my dear south korean kitchen mate H. was pretty speechless, and when the K. said something and left, he translated: "oh, you are very brave, she said!". B., who i met on the 2nd floor, just couldn't stop laughing, and when i started to beat him (non-violence, sometimes, is not an option), he said: "no, no, it's sexy!" i had to beat him even harder.

but don't take his word for it:

oh well, that was the farewell from my birch 5 folks ;-) like S. puts it: "if i hadn't met any other austrian than you, i would say: all austrians a really crazy!"

however, i am still very glad that i didn't have my good bye happening on wednesday because i felt like in a bubble all day long. the walk in the afternoon helped me to get out of the sadness, and the busy-ness of the evening helped me to focus on tomorrow rather than yesterday. still weird to imagine not seeing all these new close people in a long, long time.

...

and now i guess it's time to move on.

(overused phrase, i know, but it just really hits the nail on the head right now.)

or for the very now, go to sleep.

and as in PolyPing, i will probably do some updates from miami as its part of my non-european travel experience, but i will shut down the newsticktacktimelinemicroblogotumbl(r)ing as soon as i'm back home.

what a gorgeous day full of spontaneous awesomeness!

09:00am _ i slept in and missed the first yoga class at 10:00am, and honestly - sleeping for another hour felt pretty nice after this superbusy week, especially after discovering the deep grey and rainy day outside my window. so instead of sweatening in the hot room, i wrapped my books so they're ready to be shipped by canadian post next week.

12:00am _ breakfast bagel and cafe au lait at paperchase (where else!), doing some work on my website, writing with some people to go to the TEDxPannonia together, plus lovely L. joined in and we mutually celebrated our very last paperchase get-together as she's leaving for montreal on tuesday.

03:00pm _ last yoga session at bikram yoga halifax

05:00pm _ back to the paperchase for another cafe au lait and a free (!) bowl of hot vegetable soup, plus dancing to tchaikovsky's "waltz of the snowflakes" with one of the waitresses and talking about snowflakes (they're everywhere!)

05:30pm _ helping out L. with one of her last assignments with the last 10% of my laptop battery, ranting about disorganized teachers, deciding to spontaneously catch a drink.

06:00pm _ catching t.h.e. best haligonian cocktails i ever had at the bitter end after randomly choosing it on the next street. a bar that reminds me very much of my favourite cocktail place in vienna, the hammond (all i'm saying is: "liquid sachercake!"). what i like about these kind of bars is the perfect mixture of a fancy and laid-back atmosphere, superfriendly yet unintrusive waiters plus extraordinarily well mixed drinks for a decent price ($6.50!). conclusion: drinking early is simply the very best thing to do!

round 1: "illusion" with polar ice vodka, triple sec, melon liquor, pineapple jouce round 2: "candy apple" with polar ice vodka, butter ripple schnapps, puss green apple, cranberry juice 

plus: awesome music like the smiths, arcade fire, bat for lashes, jose gonzalez, the national, florence + the machine, etc.

SUPERPLUS: REAL LIFE TOWELS! ("what's the opposite of papertowels?" - "real life towels!")

07:00pm _ starting to shop the littlest, tiniest, lightest (luggage issues!) gifts for my family at the whimsical black market, and got myself the most beautiful, cosy, soft black pashmina after losing my favourite scarf at the uncommon grounds last tuesday.

08:00pm _ whole weat carrot muffin from ubiquitious canadian cheapo coffee institution tim hortons, catching the bus home

09:00pm _ enjoying my disconnected canadian phone, working on my mass media paper that is due tomorrow at midnight, enjoying the muffin and another bottle of delightful tea thanks to some of my final tea bags, going to bed early - BECAUSE I CAN!