Well let start off by saying this place is AMAZING. My deck has the perfect morning view. A line of mist covers the forest before me. Hundreds of cheeping birds can be heard in the distance, and if your lucky(which I have) a wallaby will come hopping down the hill and stare at you before it hops off again.
Aussies are so lazy with English and find any excuse to make things shorter or just different, such as G'day, How you goin? briekkie(breakfast), goon(wine), jumbuck(sleep), and the list goes on. Nobody says cranky here and if you do they will shake their head, know your a foreigner and say you watched to much Steve Irwin.
The change in climate has taken its toll on me for sure but the heat is always something I can get use to. It's always in the 70's-90's with humidity insanely high. It's funny trying to talk to my flatmates about temperature and what is "COLD." My roommate told me it gets down to 18 degrees here, and I looked at him with great disbelief. Then I remembered we use the Fahrenheit scale. It's been really hard to talk about other things because I'm not hip with the metric system and talking about anything requires some converting to understand on either side. I also can't read food labels very well, because everything is in killa jewls, so I can't feel that guilty eating things I shouldn't.
Believe when I say, Australians love to party, they put Americans to shame. How many colleges have a bar right on campus? Non that I know of, but here you better be at the uni bar at least 6 days a week, there might be something wrong with you if your not there. Kind of sad really. The entire college experience is totally different here, you only go to college "uni" for 3 years and when you enter school you go directly into your core classes. No generals no extra classes that don't pertain to your major. I only go to class once a week for a subject and it meets for 3 hours usually. A little hard to sit for that long.
I'm also discovering how the rest of the world views Americans and may I say it is not very good. I have had to stand up for my country on more than a few occasions because a lot of people here think all Americans are the same. We are all power hungry, love to argue politics, are very self centered people, and we think we're better than everyone else because we do things differently. One man told me we all Americans look the same, and asked him what he meant by that and was scared to give me an answer. It takes people only a few seconds to hear you speak and ask "Canadian or American?"
I'll be back soon
Aussies are so lazy with English and find any excuse to make things shorter or just different, such as G'day, How you goin? briekkie(breakfast), goon(wine), jumbuck(sleep), and the list goes on. Nobody says cranky here and if you do they will shake their head, know your a foreigner and say you watched to much Steve Irwin.
The change in climate has taken its toll on me for sure but the heat is always something I can get use to. It's always in the 70's-90's with humidity insanely high. It's funny trying to talk to my flatmates about temperature and what is "COLD." My roommate told me it gets down to 18 degrees here, and I looked at him with great disbelief. Then I remembered we use the Fahrenheit scale. It's been really hard to talk about other things because I'm not hip with the metric system and talking about anything requires some converting to understand on either side. I also can't read food labels very well, because everything is in killa jewls, so I can't feel that guilty eating things I shouldn't.
Believe when I say, Australians love to party, they put Americans to shame. How many colleges have a bar right on campus? Non that I know of, but here you better be at the uni bar at least 6 days a week, there might be something wrong with you if your not there. Kind of sad really. The entire college experience is totally different here, you only go to college "uni" for 3 years and when you enter school you go directly into your core classes. No generals no extra classes that don't pertain to your major. I only go to class once a week for a subject and it meets for 3 hours usually. A little hard to sit for that long.
I'm also discovering how the rest of the world views Americans and may I say it is not very good. I have had to stand up for my country on more than a few occasions because a lot of people here think all Americans are the same. We are all power hungry, love to argue politics, are very self centered people, and we think we're better than everyone else because we do things differently. One man told me we all Americans look the same, and asked him what he meant by that and was scared to give me an answer. It takes people only a few seconds to hear you speak and ask "Canadian or American?"
I'll be back soon
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