Australia FAQ
My semester is over, I just walked away from my very last exam. I am leaving for the airport in only 37 hours to depart from this great nation, the Commonwealth of Australia. I feel like this would be good time to reflect on my experience, to come full circle from my first blog entry. Not that most of my entries had anything to do with Australia, but I was sort of intending for them to and I'm going to write this with that spirit in mind. I am going to write this in the form of a F.A.Q., and then I'm going to print it out and bring it with me to Thanksgiving, and the grocery store, and the hairdresser, and to my friends' houses, so I don't have to answer them over and over again.
Q:How was Australia?
A: Good.
Q:Did you have fun?
A: Sometimes.
Q: What was the best part?
A: Seeing the biggest rocking horse in the world.
Q: Did you do any traveling? / Where did you go?
A: I went to Cairns (great barrier reef), Sydney, Tasmania, Alice Springs, Uluru, Coober Pedy, Adelaide, the Great Ocean Road, Melbourne, and of course Newcastle.
Q: Did you see a Tasmanian Devil?
A: No.
Q: Can you do an Australian accent? (although I anticipate this will come as a command rather than a question)
A: No. But we can watch Australian tv on youtube if you want to hear one.
Q: Did you see Cat Empire?
A: No
Q: Why didn't you see Cat Empire?
A: I don't know, I didn't hear about any concerts nearby.
Q: Did you fall in love with an Australian boy?
A: Heavens no. OMFG, No.
Q: Did you buy me any Australian opals?
A: Only if you are my mom.
Q: Did you stand up when you went surfing?
A: Yes, followed by falling off.
Q: What was the weather like?
A: Pretty nice, interrupted occasionally by torrential downpours.
Q: Your mom told me something happened to your foot. What's the deal?
A: Yeah I dunno it's fine now except that it's all hot and puffy, and 2 of my toes hurt when I bend them. I think it needs to be amputated.
Q: Is everyone tan and blonde?
A: No, but some people are. Probably more than in the states.
Q: What was the food like?
A: Pretty much the same, except no Taco Bell, and different names for lots of foods.