Puppy Chow and Opossums

Ring tailed possum

Hope you enjoyed the video tour of my room and building!  The past few days have been filled with fun.  On Monday, Victoria and I watched Pan’s Labyrinth (had to watch it for my class) and that was quite an interesting movie.  If you like fairy tales and goriness then I would recommend it.  After that Victoria drove me to Wooly’s because she has her car this week and we got some groceries.  And of course I wanted to get in the wrong side.  After that we stopped at Blockbuster and got Bring It On because the cheers from that movie have been stuck in our heads the past two weeks.  I said brrr, it’s cold in here….

Tuesday was a very good day.  In my Reading Stories class a man about in his late 40’s early 50’s that dresses like a hippy pulled a mouse out of his shirt…and it was on a yellow leash.  I about died from laughing and then he passed it around and let everyone hold it.  He stayed in class about five minutes and then left.  I do not know if he is actually in my class or not because there are about 50-60 students, but it was really weird.  Once my classes and tutorials were over I taught Victoria how to make a chicken quesadilla.  She had never had one and even though she added a lot of weird and random stuff (cole slaw, sweet chili sauce, and mayo) to her’s, she enjoyed it.  Then, we made puppy chow, which she had never heard of either.  They did not have rice or corn chex cereal so I had to use this honey kind that they had, but it turned out very well.  Victoria was not very crazy for it (she is not much of a sweets person), but some of our other friends really enjoyed it.  However, whenever we told them the name of it they would give us the funniest looks!  They were very confused. 

Last night as I walking to my building (there are two building where I live and I have to cut through the first one and then go across the courtyard) I ran into this big furry animal that started to come at me, but I ran away.  It looked like a raccoon and opossum and I later found out it was a ringed tail opossum.  I cannot get over how big and furry it was!  Definitely did not look like our opossums.

Random:

-They call bangs fringe

-Their elementary schools are called primary school and then in high school 11^th and 12^th grade is called college.

-There are birds here that have venom in their wings and we see them quite often.

-KFC has some very tasty French fries (they call them chips)

-There are seven states:  Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland, Northern Territory, and South Australia

-They have $2, $1, $0.50, $0.20, $0.10, and $0.05 coins and their bills are colorful and get larger in size.