Sunday to Tuesday: Planning for the future

I said the website crashed on me earlier, so this is my attempt to retype everything that I have written:

Sunday Wolf Prix hired the photographer Erwin Wurm to take the first ever Coop Himmelb(l)au team picture! All the emails we received about the weekend really stressed the dress code (titled “the Architect”) which meant that everyone had to wear black shoes, black pants (long pants, mind you), white shirt, and black blazer. It was humid and warm at 9am when I left the apartment wearing the required clothes, so by the time I got to the shuttle buses at the offices, I was as sweaty as everyone else. About 120 people showed up, and then the shuttles departed to… the middle of nowhere. They had to hire shuttles because no public transport makes it all the way out to the this random rusty dockland/loading area place that we were driven to.

Here we are everyone! Where????

And then Prix drives in. The guy on the right in the brown shirt is Erwin Wurm – apparently they’re old friends, which is why he did the photoshoot.

Ladies.

So we take three different shots: The first we are all standing in rows, like an army and the executive board of Himmelblau is looking down on us from a loading dock. The second shot, everyone piles onto this truck used for dragging three cars at three different levels across the country – we are a commodity. The final shot by Wurm made me laugh. We all had to sit on the ground in our nice clothes, with our legs straight out in front of us, and looking straight ahead. This was the only one that I got pictures of:

Again, we're in rows - this is just a picture of everyone getting ready.

It was getting really hot at that point so sitting upright with legs straight and hands and arms at your side was like doing pilates in a sauna.

Afterwards, everyone piled into the buses again and drove to a place that had prepared lunch for us, compliments of CHBL.

The rest of Sunday was pretty lazy, so I was able to get up for work on Monday pretty refreshed. Tuesday I spent in Hornstein with Omama, because it would be the last time to do so. We woke up at 5am Wednesday morning to wish the pilgrams (Hornsteiners that walk from Wednesday to Sunday to Mariazelle) good luck and say our last goodbyes. Got back to Vienna and went to work.

Tomorrow, Tyler, Maria, and I are going to Prague for the weekend…

Dear Family, thanks for calling me at 7am this morning. I love you.

EL