{"id":79,"date":"2015-04-19T18:35:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T08:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2015-04-19T18:35:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T08:35:06","slug":"one-month-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"One month in…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I’ve been here a month now and am settling in to a routine.\u00a0 I’m running on the trails and have even been playing in basketball leagues.\u00a0 It is beginning to feel normal to be here.\u00a0 Sometimes I even forget I’m in different country \/ hemisphere.\u00a0 Then I go to catch a tram or train and find myself standing on the wrong side of the platform.\u00a0 I still look both ways twice when crossing streets.\u00a0 Oh, and then I see strange things that seem familiar in grocery stores.\u00a0 Like this cereal:<\/p>\n

\"Rice<\/a>
Rice what now?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Or I happen down the baking aisle and stop and double take when I see eggs.\u00a0 Yes, eggs, not refrigerated.<\/p>\n

\"Eggs?\"<\/a>
Eggs?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Early on when I got here I went to a comedy show, and the Irish comic compared Australian culture to how schoolkids act when the teacher leaves the room.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m finding that description apt at times.<\/p>\n

\"2015-04-12<\/a> \"2015-04-16<\/a><\/p>\n

There was just of video out of their prime minister skolling (chugging) a pint of beer at a bar and it is just kind of shown on the news as a funny thing that happened.<\/p>\n

I have signed up for a carshare service here, so my next goal is to take up driving so I can stop carrying groceries and beers back from the stores.\u00a0 Also, I can become more confused by life here driving on the wrong side of the road from the wrong side of the car.\u00a0 “Turn on Red” doesn’t seem to be legal.\u00a0 Oh, and I’ll have to deal with trams and “hook turns”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I’ve been here a month now and am settling in to a routine.\u00a0 I’m running on the trails and have even been playing in basketball leagues.\u00a0 It is beginning to feel normal to be here.\u00a0 Sometimes I even forget I’m in different country \/ hemisphere.\u00a0 Then I go to catch a tram or train … Continue reading One month in…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}