August 27
After going to bed late last night I slept in this morning until 10:30am. Another hour or so of work after I had been refreshed by a full night's sleep resulted in a completed draft of my film review. Oh, I don't think I mentioned it last night, but The Castle is a comed
y with almost the kind of humor found in Napoleon Dynamite or Monty Python. I enjoyed it, but I think I would enjoy it more and laugh more the second time I watched it. It's just that kind of movie, I guess. Different type of humor than is typical of most hollywood films. Also, interestingly, the acting wasn't as good (but that's ok.. it was a comedy), and the film quality made me think it was made in the 1980s, even though it was actually produced in 1997.
This afternoon I went for a walk before supper to stretch out from being inside and doing homework. I took my camera and was really pleased to notice five Australian Pelicans floating on the water and even sitting on rocks near the area of shoreline where people often feed the ducks! I walked closer and managed to get some nice photos of these beatiful, and huge birds! Aussie p
elicans make the local black swans look small. I don't know how a bird like these pelicans can handle flying around with such an enormous bills either!
Tonight Amanda and I went up to the pick-up spot in front of International House and hoped that someone would come by and pick us up for Uni Church (a university church service) at Australia National University. After waiting about 40 minutes, Dan and his wife stopped by and we got our ride. Apparently due to helping out setting up at church sometimes, Dan said the time they get there to pick people up is variable, and can be anywhere as early as 6:30ish to almost 7:00. Dan had a Toyota Echo hatchback version (they never sold that version in the US), and the speedometer was really weird. It was like looking through a magnifying glass into a tunnel in the dashboard that was slanted towa
rd the driver's seat. It was all digital, and the speed numbers were huge. There was also RPMs and fuel, etc. down that tunnel. It was such a different setup for the dashboard guages. Pretty neat though, I guess.
Church was nice. Amanda and I were discussing on the way back how the worship is very different here than back home. None of the songs had been previously heard by either of us, and we noticed how they all sort of sounded the same, and were pretty much just some music and some words, and the words were sung along to the music. They mostly don't have a distinct sound or catchy rythm or even rhyming words. It kind of reminds me of a musical, where the monologue is just sung along to music, whatever the words and music happen to be. I'm not really that great at describing it, but it is definitely different than what I'm used to. Why can't they just import all our songs? ;)
y with almost the kind of humor found in Napoleon Dynamite or Monty Python. I enjoyed it, but I think I would enjoy it more and laugh more the second time I watched it. It's just that kind of movie, I guess. Different type of humor than is typical of most hollywood films. Also, interestingly, the acting wasn't as good (but that's ok.. it was a comedy), and the film quality made me think it was made in the 1980s, even though it was actually produced in 1997.This afternoon I went for a walk before supper to stretch out from being inside and doing homework. I took my camera and was really pleased to notice five Australian Pelicans floating on the water and even sitting on rocks near the area of shoreline where people often feed the ducks! I walked closer and managed to get some nice photos of these beatiful, and huge birds! Aussie p
elicans make the local black swans look small. I don't know how a bird like these pelicans can handle flying around with such an enormous bills either!Tonight Amanda and I went up to the pick-up spot in front of International House and hoped that someone would come by and pick us up for Uni Church (a university church service) at Australia National University. After waiting about 40 minutes, Dan and his wife stopped by and we got our ride. Apparently due to helping out setting up at church sometimes, Dan said the time they get there to pick people up is variable, and can be anywhere as early as 6:30ish to almost 7:00. Dan had a Toyota Echo hatchback version (they never sold that version in the US), and the speedometer was really weird. It was like looking through a magnifying glass into a tunnel in the dashboard that was slanted towa
rd the driver's seat. It was all digital, and the speed numbers were huge. There was also RPMs and fuel, etc. down that tunnel. It was such a different setup for the dashboard guages. Pretty neat though, I guess.Church was nice. Amanda and I were discussing on the way back how the worship is very different here than back home. None of the songs had been previously heard by either of us, and we noticed how they all sort of sounded the same, and were pretty much just some music and some words, and the words were sung along to the music. They mostly don't have a distinct sound or catchy rythm or even rhyming words. It kind of reminds me of a musical, where the monologue is just sung along to music, whatever the words and music happen to be. I'm not really that great at describing it, but it is definitely different than what I'm used to. Why can't they just import all our songs? ;)
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