Steiermark is a very nice part of Austria and it is known here as the “Green Heart of Austria” because of its many forests, farms, orchards, and vineyard. It’s lovely here in the summer and I am sure that autumn here will be quite as lovely. I’ll have my camera ready and I’ll take photos of the country side.

Austria is incredibly beautiful and sometimes I wish that I could contain some of its beauty in a bottle and bring it home to the Philippines to show it to my love ones (then bring it back of course). I love its rolling hills and well kept meadows. I love its looming mountains along with its countless lakes and streams. I love its century old cities and the old architectures therein. I am glad that I am able to see and appreciate such place.

And if I’d have to say something I don’t like about Austria… it would just be then the fact that Austria is not blessed with an ocean and all that comes with it like fresh salt-water fishes and lovely beaches. But that’s ok because my country has those. For me it’s like Philippines and Austria complement each other and I am glad to have found home in both countries.

I remember he can draw well at a very young age but there was something about his drawing that made the other pupils including me think that he is stupid. He was the only non-Filipino pupil in the class so when he drew a landscape with orange and yellow colored trees, all the Filipino kids laughed at his work. Why would he draw a yellow tree when everybody knows it’s supposed to be green?

Autumn was not a reality for me (and for most of the Filipino kids in that age) until I’ve seen it in the movies and learn about it in our Science subject. Winter is another story. I think every kid in my country has an idea of what winter is because of the “snow” in Christmas stories. We were all “would be nice to have snow here” because the idea of playing in the snow appeals so much.

Had I known that there’s autumn, I would have wished to have autumn instead of winter because of the colors and what it does to the landscape. I would have wished to play in the heaps of dried fallen leaves instead of snow. Autumn is beautiful!