I have adopted the Aussie tone to my common speech. When I am at my Aussie home, or speaking with people casually the tone of my voice, the actual pattern of my speech now mimics Australia. That is, while I am telling a story, the pitch of my sentences increases near the end. Then, for the last sentence of the story if drops down. Difficult to describe but very noticeable in conversation.
I speak most like an American in the classroom. The children are very entertained by it. I was helping in a 7th grade class the other day and one girl was unable to talk to me. Every time I tried to say something to her she would burst into a giggling fit and buried her face in her hands.
So, my first week here has gone swimmingly. The only interaction I have had with spiders is seeing a dead one with a leg span the size of baseball stuck up in a ceiling light. It was a blurry view of a creature that I am sure haunts millions of peoples nightmares.
My classes are great and the children are more or less as behaved as US students. Good students, bad students. Students who put stock into academics, and students who scream for attention by beating what they think is a clever joke until it is a very dead horse. Seeing students in Australia that are so similar to students in the states has led to some thought...
My classes are great and the children are more or less as behaved as US students. Good students, bad students. Students who put stock into academics, and students who scream for attention by beating what they think is a clever joke until it is a very dead horse. Seeing students in Australia that are so similar to students in the states has led to some thought...
Before I left for Guatemala my grandma warned me to "watch out for all them foreigners." Before I left for Australia my mother told me to "be careful because there are a lot of weirdos out there."
Before coming to Australia, I was aware of the hyper-paranoia created by the media and its exceptional hold it had on my family. Coming here has continued to show me that, of course people think the world is filled with weirdos and freaks and murdering bilge rats! The students in my classroom have asked me multiple times about the celebrities and muggers.
CELEBRITIES AND MUGGERS!
That is the perception the youth have of America. That it is a nation of the famous and the desolately poor. My trip to Vegas was the same eye opening experience. Vegas is a city of people, not just a 5 mile strip of gambling and tomfoolery.
I will now stop being preachy, as being preachy is worse than Nicki Minaj.
So, my time here is going well. Things are EXPENSIVE HERE. I'm going to buy a pair of hiking shoes online as they are a quarter of the price on eBay. Wow, there is no substance to this post at all. Please don't read it. I'll try to better next time...
Here is something funny for those of you who read this post and were disappointed with it's contents.
Before coming to Australia, I was aware of the hyper-paranoia created by the media and its exceptional hold it had on my family. Coming here has continued to show me that, of course people think the world is filled with weirdos and freaks and murdering bilge rats! The students in my classroom have asked me multiple times about the celebrities and muggers.
CELEBRITIES AND MUGGERS!
That is the perception the youth have of America. That it is a nation of the famous and the desolately poor. My trip to Vegas was the same eye opening experience. Vegas is a city of people, not just a 5 mile strip of gambling and tomfoolery.
I will now stop being preachy, as being preachy is worse than Nicki Minaj.
So, my time here is going well. Things are EXPENSIVE HERE. I'm going to buy a pair of hiking shoes online as they are a quarter of the price on eBay. Wow, there is no substance to this post at all. Please don't read it. I'll try to better next time...
Here is something funny for those of you who read this post and were disappointed with it's contents.
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