Au-ddly Australian

Well friends, I have completed my first semester.  It was not a good semester by any means.  It was mainly full of classes I was not particularly prepared for or particularly interested in.  Next semester will be better, and hopefully going half way around the world and not doing so hot in classes that were a stretch caused by poor degree management isn't frowned on too much.  Because next semester I go back to designing ships.  And this time they are painted gray and have Mk40's on them instead of plain old 40's.

The final Au-ddly for the semester will be:  exam time!

The World Cup - Australian Style

Of course, the World Cup is currently underway.  Here down under the games take place overnight, with a 9, 1130, and 4 game for the majority of group play.  Its a nice way to spend the evening before heading off to bed in the slow days of exams.  The bars stay open late, some even serving for the 4am'ers.  There are some 6 oclock games coming up soon because of the way SBS is televising the games but more on that later.  Rundle Mall has a big screen which they broadcast the Socceroos games on.  Its probably a pretty fun time.  The soccer team had a function with drink specials and such at our pub sponsor for the second Australia game.  In which they once again disappointed.

Au-ddly Australian - Bonus I Forgot Edition

The mountains got some more snow, and some of the resorts are having opening day tomorrow.

But the point of the post is that its winter in Australia.   Is it summer yet where you are?  Well its warm and sunny and pleasant but its not summer.  Summer comes on the solstice.  Of summer.  Which is when the earth is all tilted.  And winter solstice is when its tilted the other way.  So, one would think that, when you have a summer solstice, I will have a winter solstice and it will be winter.  But you are wrong.  Australians don't believe in that mumbo jumbo.  Australian winter begins on the 1st of June.  A full three weeks before you all get to summer.  Wikipedia has informed me that this is because of a shorter temperature lag in the southern hemisphere.  And that the summer/winter solstice as the start of their respective months is a US (and Canada) mainstream media conspiracy.  It also tells me that there are two additional seasons here.  It once told me that emperor penguins reach a height of 40 feet and that fortress Webb was guarded day and night by the class of 2009.  Clearly only some of these things are true.  So it has a mixed reputation for accuracy as far as I am concerned.

Au-ddly Australian

It's finals time in the Land Down Under.  So I haven't really thought of much lately.  Plus Andrei was here.  Perhaps next week, when I understand have experienced the finals process down here I can write about that. 

There was a news report yesterday of snow.  The resorts in Victoria received some pretty heavy snowfall the last couple nights, with another 5-10 cm expected.  Which is a little strange.  It is winter, but being in Adelaide, I haven't really though about snow.  Instead we just get rain.  And the police put out a warning to all motorists the other day:  If its raining hard enough that you can't see the road, you should pull over.  Ohhhhh.  Thank you police.  Apparently there was a pretty bad accident north of the city where someone didn't think to do that.  This was right after the snow report from Victoria.  It was a little like DC news casters giving you snow driving advice.  Except in South Australia, the driest state in the world, where it rains every other day, people need instructions on wet weather driving. 

Au-ddly Australian

Its early I know.  But I am feeling extra bloggy tonight!

I have a dream....

Actually I had a dream.  Normally I wouldn't do this.  But I know there are some readers of this blog that will enjoy it.

Au-ddly Australian - Bonus One Liner Edition

A preview of the Scripps US National Spelling Bee made the world news report tonight.

Au-ddly Australian

Some more random fun things about the Land Down Under.

LOST........with cats

Adventures in Alternative Soccer Training

This post will be appreciated by all.  But especially so by a couple of people.