austria - the place where i climbed from hell to heaven

we went to europe in 1997 as our graduation tour. before getting on the plane, we didnt know our examination results. we used a lot of money for this trip but we would have no money to pay it back if we failed the exam and could not work to earn money later.

thanks to our professional agents, we saved a lot of money by buying cheap flight tickets, using youth eurail passes but as a student with a debt of more than $15000 in mind, i felt very stressful then.



after taking train and reaching austria, i had no mood to see anything as i knew it is the time to release the exam results by faculty. however, during my walk from hundertwasser haus (above ) to schloss schonbrunn (below), we received one of the most important phone call for our lives. it was a call from hk classmate, he told us we all passed the exam and graduated without any problem.



suddenly i felt as if climbing from hell to heaven. my pocket can have money in the future to pay back the debt and return the money to my parents for this trip. vienna is the turning point of that european trip.



later we moved to salzburg where our moods were completely different, we started to enjoy the trip completely and started to spend money in a reasonable way...................................gunwai

(in fact, studying in school is very different from working in society, school is always a heaven and society sometimes worse than hell!)