Have you ever been to
Vienna? You have? Oh, good for you then. So, have you been to the Haus Der Musik? No? Seriously? How can
you live with yourself?! How can you sleep at night?! Seriously, what’s wrong
with you! Anyway, here’s a chance to make up for it.
Last week our most beloved professor
Skartnitzl told us the good news. For many of us, as for myself actually,
Phonetics and Phonology has been something we have really enjoyed and have
found entertaining though we suck at it (I know I have; my performance
regarding transcribing words “anxious” and “anxiety” was rather tragi-comical
and even Mr. Skarnitzl himself laughed at me). This is the reward for us; for
those, who have tried to penetrate the mysteries of the connected speech features
and failed to understand it; for those who had suffered and still made it to
the second semester and hopefully will make it to the second year.
The whole trip will start off by
visiting the Haus Der Musik where
most of us will find out that we are completely deaf from listening to our mp3
players with the maximum possible volume. This finding will, of course, require
some liquid consolation. Though we will have some time to cope with that
information by admiring the beauties of Vienna, in the evening we will end up
back in the Czech Republic in Mikulov, drinking wine in a local wine cellar and
drinking the deaf sadness away. The supply is supposed to be limitless, so we
will have a once in a life time opportunity to drown our troubles in wine.
However, this is just one scenario.
You can also find out that you’re the next Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and that you
shouldn’t be studying the English and American Studies at all. Apparently, you
can try to conduct a whole orchestra there – good luck with that. However,
let’s not kid ourselves; the probability of you becoming the next musical
prodigy is as likely as me finally understanding what pseudoresyllabification is.
None.
Either way, whether you’ll be
drinking your sorrow away or celebrating the fact that you are The musical
marvel who has just been discovered, you’ll have the chance to escape the worries
about the upcoming exam period, also you’ll have the chance to sing the
national anthem when dead drunk; you’ll have an amazing time. So if you’re
still undecided about coming, think no more. I promise you won’t regret it.
