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an open letter [incomprehensibly Australian terms painstakingly transliterated into Japanese]
Dear G'day, teacher who is still convinced I'm American even after one term,
I lived in Florida for a year and worked there on break. This does not make me American.
I'm as Aussie as you are. No, you're a second generation Greek immigrant; I take that back: I can trace my family back to one of the first bloody convicts1; I'm more Australian than ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Who: Ash and Pukamon
When: April 25th 2011, dawn (EST)
Where: A friend's apartment, Winter Garden, Florida
What: Two Australians in Florida remember.
Notes: One F-bomb. "Advance Australia Fair" by Peter Dodds McCormick; "In Flanders Fields" by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae; the "Ode of Remembrance" from Laurence Binyon's "For the Fallen"; " ( Read more... ) -
Maybe we should have stayed in Puerto Rico; it was warmer there
Just kidding. I'm back in the capital with my best friend who's a local here, and after coming here in summer it is weird seeing it so empty by comparison, not to mention actually snowing. Sure, I've seen snow before, but usually in the mountains, and always on the ground already, not in progress. And of course the state I left is the only one in ( Read more... ) -
My Tweets
[ENGLISH]- Fri, 12:02: http://bit.ly/aGrkrU I'm pretty sure @hoshinjuku's room looked like this when she was little, eh, neesan?
- Fri, 12:05: I really do like this series, though, even if I don't really do portraiture myself (just for work and when people ask nicely).
- Fri, 12:13: I want to say ( Read more... )
- Fri, 12:02: http://bit.ly/aGrkrU I'm pretty sure @hoshinjuku's room looked like this when she was little, eh, neesan?
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at least there'll be no more vuvuzelas
I know I just posted earlier, but my disappointment cannot be confined to Facebook:
I can't believe we didn't get the '22 World Cup. Only one vote?! How did this happen?!
Where the hell is Qatar? (Yes, I can work Google.) I would have been happy for Japan to host if Aus couldn't but QatarI can't even look forward to '14 because if I have to hear ( Read more... ) -
hard to believe I've got two months left
Since my friends kindly kidnapped me for my birthday, my family celebration got combined with my little sisters'. I don't feel twenty, but I'm more shocked the twins are fourteen. Aren't younger siblings supposed to be eight forever ( Read more... ) -
MY NIGHTMARE
One night at work this week I had an Australian guest who wanted a DVD. As we were waiting for it to burn, we got to arguing about AFL, as you do, and eventually she tells me that my Aussie accent's worn off and I sound American. My older sister confirmed it, saying she didn't want to tell me while she was here ( Read more... )