Last Day of Intensive!

I had my final this morning...it was quite easy. Most of the fill-in questions and sentences were directly from our homework, so it was really very easy. After the test, I went home and made lunch, then I went and walked around the Mariahilferstrasse, which has tons of stores and things. First I stopped by the Mariahilferkirche, which is right by the little pedestrian street I use to get to the Mariahilferstrasse. It was a nice church, and I think I might go hear the Schubert Mass in Eb next month.....I went into H&M, where they had some pretty cool clothes which were fairly inexpensive. They had some nice button-up shirts which I think I might go back and buy. I also wandered down to the Neubaugasse stop to figure out exactly where the Merkur is and what the fastest way out of the station is. Down by the Merkur there's a cheap shoe shop....I guess it's like Payless. They had some relatively interesting shoes, but I don't think I need any more shoes at the moment! I went into this other shop called A1, or something, which was a very fancy, modern-looking technology store. There were a whole bunch of computers, and there were rectangular prisms of glass that were in a bin with a shopping cart label....I guess that you can take them and store info on what you want to buy on them, like little shopping carts. The place was really futuristic and cool.....there was a bar on the upper floor, but I didn't go in. The other cool store I found was this place called "Allerlei." It's hard to explain exactly what it was....they had cheap, 99¢ store-style stuff, but also lots of fake ethnic stuff, like african masks made in Indonesia and drums and things....they even had a whole wall of wooden penis sculptures and metal tribal figures in exotic sexual positions.....I took pictures! I bought a few things....including a couple of gifts for friends (so I can't post them here! ;), some cheap headphones (my cheap ones that I use on the U-bahn broke...) and some vanilla wafers. Like I said, this store had an amazing variety of useless crap....fuzzy handcuffs "for those you love" cheap, bagged spices, lots of glasses and cheap little crappy things.....it was quite possibly the funniest thing that I've seen here. I took some OK pictures, but the higher resolution makes 'em look way better. I also took some pretty snazzy pictures from our apartment.