Muffy Toe

I got the internship at Starlight Foundation. I'm very excited that I will be working with only Australians 2-3 full days a week. I guess most internships get really old after a while, but I think it's going to be challenging too, especially if they really let me get involved in the writing and interviewing. I start this Wednesday.

It's a beautiful but hot day here. Everyone is laying outside in the common areas reading for class, listening to music, and planning trips.

This morning I had my first little culture frustration (not so much "shock"). My housemates decided we should all go in on a coffee maker and I volunteered to go to the mall to get one since I don't have class Monday. Target had about 20 kettles and no coffee maker, so I went to the Big W (the equivalent of WalMart.) I kid you not, they had THREE ROWS of kettles- plastic, stainless steel, cordless, kettles that cost 15$, and ones that cost 50$. And only one measly little coffee pot in the back, for 45$!! I kept looking and got unusually frustrated as I realized that this was probably the only coffee pot in this huge mall. But then I recognized my frustration as some kind of culture shock and that made me happy because it reminded me that I'm in Australia! =)

I forgot to say in my last post that at nighttime the Opera House looks pretend. There's no other way to describe it.