From fires to footy

Aussie word of the day: Crook = to feel ill, sick; "He's been crook all week."

I'm hibernating in my room tonight after a full morning of housing orientation. I know that doesn't sound like a very thrilling experience, but let me tell you, I will never die in a fire after the fire safety seminar we had. I even got to put out a small controlled fire with an ABE extinguisher (that's powder form) which are typically used to put out 4 classes of fires; wood/ paper, combustible liquids, flammable gases, and electrical. The classes of fires are identified by letters A-F and there are 6 types of extinguishers, but I won't go into that. If you really want to know just ask me in an email and I'll be happy to share my new fire safety wisdom with you.

After the enthralling fire safety demonstration, the housing office provided us with a "sausage sizzle" basically a cookout where they cook skinny bratwurst-like hotdogs, very yummy! This afternoon the rains came in with a vengence, which makes for the perfect night of watching some good old, classic Aussie rules football on TV. I'm still not a committed sports watcher, but it is interesting watching a sport that is so different from anything in the States. Actually, I would like to know what my sports-nut brother would make of it. From what I can tell Aussie rules is pretty similar to rugby, but I could be wrong. Justin, start looking at flights for next year's rugby season.. that's this time next year!

I watched some of the funniest television ever last night, a show called The Footy Show, footy being short for football (they shorten everything here). I honestly didn't think I would like it because it's a show based on a sport and the humor is different to Americans, but SOOO FUNNY!!! It's somewhere between Dave Letterman and a football pre-game show. And some of the stuff they allow on TV here would make Americans blush. They just don't care! When I was watching a morning television show yesterday, one of the hosts made a reference to balls.. those kind of balls. It's a family show! And TV commercials for Jim Beam with lipstick lezzos (lesbians).. all I could say was WOW! Bevan tells me they have an FCC here, but I'm not sure what those commissioners do all day.