Culture shock
Merry (Happy) Christmas…a little late
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008I’m late in posting this but Merry Christmas or as the locals say Happy Christmas!
This was my first Christmas away from my NJ home. (Look at that I specified NJ home, indicating I have 2 homes now. Boy, am I growing up.) It was a bit strange not being in NJ for Christmas. No below [...]
My peeps!
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008It was Family Date Night at a local eatery for dinner (or as the locals say, tea). As I’m trying to convince LJ to finish eating his dinner, I heard a group of people pass by yelling at each other to get in line, get a table, find out what is the roast of the [...]
Cheese!
Sunday, June 15th, 2008I know I’m going to get bashed for this but Australian cheese sucks. Wait, no that’s not right. Australian Cheddar (Tasty) cheese sucks. I miss my wonderful American cheddar.
First of all, cheddar is not white. Unless you specifically ask for white cheddar, then it shouldn’t be white. It should be [...]
Enjoying the last days of Summer…
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Well, it’s technically Autumn right now but it didn’t feel like it until today. Before today, we were having wonderful beach weather and we have been enjoying every minute we can of it. So for the past couple of weeks, we have been living on barbecues (or the way it’s said here barbies).
I’m [...]
What I’ve learned about the US
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007Unlike my wife, I’m from a fairly small city in Australia (around 100,000 people), therefore I’ve found that life is a bit different in the US.
Some of the differences that I’ve found are:
Driving:
Turn signals are entirely optional (and hardly ever used)
Speed limits are also optional
If you don’t start driving at the exact time a [...]