Random Happening of the Day (IV)

The Scene: American family dinner. 7 people around the table. 1 German, 1 Brazilian, 2 Italians, 1 Australian, 1 girl from Portugal and me (an American, just in case that wasn't obvious.)

I was gonna make peach cobbler, but I didn't have the right pan so I asked my Australian neighbor, Ash, if he had one I could borrow. When he came over to deliver the pan everyone introduced themselves. After hearing all the different accents Ash asked where they were all from. His response after hearing all the answers was, "Geez, it's like a UN meeting in here."

I LOVE IT!!!

Random Happening of the Day (III)

As I've mentioned before I live in an old Queenslander house. For those who don't know, that means one of the designe features of the house is that it has tons of windows and no A/C. You just open the windows strategically to get the breeze to move through the house the way you want to cool certain rooms.

Well, none of these windows have screens so any time we pulled food out to cook all the flies started hanging around the kitchen and dinning room. It took about 2 days before I decided this was unacceptable. I did some research and it turns out flies don't like the smell of basil.

So I went to the Bunnings(Australian equivalent of Home Depo/Lowes) to get some basil plants to ward off the flies, and extra benefit, fresh basil in the kitchen! I went up to two guys standing out in the gardening section of the store and asked, "Do you guys stock any basil(bay-zul)?"

The first guy looks at me kinda funny and replies, "I'm not sure, I've never heard of it. Let me go check with my supervisor," and starts to run off.

I watched him walk away and turned to the second one thinking there is now way these guys have never heard of basil so I asked the second one, "Sorry, do you have any basil(baz-el)?"

"Dude! She's looking for baz-el!"

"Oh, baz-el! Yeah, we've got that right over here."

I can only imagine more of these delightful verbal misunderstanding will follow in the year to come.

Meet the gang:

I Can Hear the Thunder....

...but hopefully the women don't glow.

I made it a little over a year back in the US before I got that feeling like I needed walk on ground I've never touched before.

So.......I moved to Australia! I'm gonna be here for a year on a work/holiday visa.

I'm working in a hotel in Townsville for the first 6 months then off to who knows where. (Melbourne is the front runner at the moment)

I moved into a beautiful old queenslander house with a Brazilian, a German, and 2 Italians. I love it!

I'll try to be better about updating this blog then I was when I was in Europe, haha.

Bad Rosie! (say it like you would to a dog who just chewed up a Christmas present with the accusatory finger and everything)

So I lied......about keeping this blog updated in a timely manner, but it just seemed like every time I got back from a trip I had tons of homework and papers to do (And if procrastination was a sport in the Olympics I would medal =)). However! Now that I have graduated, (hallelujah!!! *doing the Snoopy happy dance*) I have the time to do all the back logged posts I wanted to do, and hopefully keep up with the blog in the future! So that means that the next few post will be dated b4 this post even thought I wrote them after, but they'll be in the right month for when they happened, so it is a little confusing but once I catch up to this post date in real life I'll delete this one and it will be confusing no longer. s'allright?

I've been out of school for 6 months now and I'm still back logged, "extra bad Rosie!"

I'm going to keep a list of the back logged posts I need to write. This is more for my benefit than yours. You can try to make since of the mess of simi-titles below, but don't say  I didn't warn you:

My past: the strange circumstances under which i was born, the Moz incident, broadreach,
japan, thialand, spring breakaway maui"we're hung like bull"

also if there is anything you want to know about me just ask and I'll try to post about it =)

Banksy: Wall and Piece

I had heard of this guy before, and seen some of his stuff, but after reading this book I really, really like him. Some of his ideas are crap, but mostly he's witty, and creative, and hilarious.  I want to own this book so bad. I never really thought of myself as a coffee table book kind of person, but I'd put this book out on my coffee table = ) . Also, I desperately want to see 'Exit through the Giftshop' now.



Can anyone say Christmas present?


http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137872/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316952771&sr=8-1

Random Happening of the Day (II)

I was on the Megabus from Liverpool to London today and while we were stuck in traffic I glanced out the window to see something so funny.

There was a cow who had spots, like a traditional black and white only he was light brown and white, and he was trying as hard as he could to scratch behind his ear with his rear hoof. Just picture it, it's hilarious.

.....well I thought it was hilarious.

National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh

If you like the Smithsonian's in DC or the American Museum of Natural History in NY then you'll like this place. It was amazing!

First you come in to see the Millennium Clock. Super cool! Then you could go back in time, technologically speaking, or see mummies, or the first ever cloned animal, or dinosaurs, or a truly spectacular two-level animal kingdom exhibit. If you're into geology or artifacts from other cultures they have that too! The best thing about this place though, is that unlike its contemporaries listed above, it isn't overwhelmingly big. It is the perfect size for one day of exploration, and has interactive activities everywhere! It is so much fun, for kids and adult alike!

http://www.nms.ac.uk/

I didn't take any pictures in this place because I was to busy having fun so get on the website above if you wanna check it out a bit more