The Dutch book from my first course suffered a large amount of rain damage from when I carried it home after class. My intermediate book appears to be suffering heat damage from being left outside in 20+ degree temperatures that it is not used to. It is clearly not manufactured for the Australian climate. And [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 13, 2008
Splashy
My colleagues tell me that they believe Australians play a lot of sport. I don’t know many people who play sport, however most of my friends are engineers and computer scientists so that explains that. We do watch a lot of sport though. And there’s always something going on in Melbourne: the Grand Prix, AFL, [...]
March 6, 2008
Films and cinemas
Seeing as I’ve spent most of the month in cinemas or watching DVDs or cursing the fact that the Oscars were broadcast a) live in the middle of the night b) on a cable channel I don’t receive, here are some random notes on films and cinemas.
“The Dutch get excited about a lot of things, [...]
