Apocalypse Now!

Rachel:

In Australia news, there was another earthquake today.  I didn’t write about the last one because it was a small one.  During the last one, I was getting ready to go out and my window starting shaking and I didn’t realize what it was until I saw it on the news the next morning.  This time it was bigger.  I was visiting my mom’s friend and I was sitting in their living room when the whole room started shaking and the walls and ceiling were making creaky sounds.          

            So lets do the figures.  Since we have gotten here we have experienced:

-         the hottest day in Melbourne history (47C)

-         the worst bushfires in Australian history and in the past 200 years anywhere else

-         two earthquakes

We’ve only been here for a month and a half… Before we came, I was reading a blog that called Australia the “Island of Terror.” I would have to agree.  In the month since we have gotten our TV we have watched about 7 news stories about shark attacks (mostly in the Sydney area), another story about a little girl being eaten by a crocodile and during the Queensland floods a boy was eaten by a crocodile that had swam in with the rising waters. Scary.

In school news, I got my first lesson plan back and my teacher liked it. Now I just have to pull myself together to teach in two weeks.  I feel totally unprepared. I’m sure there will be more about that at a later time.

Also I am addicted to “Kath & Kim.”  The show is hilarious. I need to watch every episode before I get home because I don’t know if I can get it at home. I highly recommend you watch them, but the Australian one, not the American version.

 

Aussie word of the day: “Doona” – comforter or quilt