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For some reason bloogum's not letting me send email, so I'll say it here instead: OMG K8 your hair looks so cool~! XD You'd better still have it like that when I get back XDD Also, I swear you look slimmer now, too X3

Also much enjoying Dad's correspondance with my mobile people. Yay, caps lock abuse X3

Nothing's really been happening, since Uko's now at uni. She's doing a sciences degree, which means she's in from, like, 9am to 6pm every day, meaning there's no time to do anything else. I am so, so glad I'm doing an arts degree XD;

I did a bit of a tidy up a few days ago, which basically meant getting all my souvenirs and prezzies together, getting rid of 30-odd plastic and paper bags that I had gotten them in, and lumping them all together instead of being scattered here there and everywhere. Basically, I have three and a half good-sized plastic bags absolutely crammed with stuff, and I've decided that Mum needs something else. No idea what, but most things I've gotten for people have just been there. I haven't actually been looking for specific things.

But yeah. Too much stuff~ XD;;; I'm going to have FUN trying to get everything in the suitcase on Sunday night. At least I can eliminate Sallie's prezzie from the going home leg.

I'm so picking up Uko's cold. Bugga.

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Not such a good welcome for Kevin Pietersen when he bats - a mixture of Ashes applause and boos - or Muttiah Muralitharan, whose first over carries a group chorus of "no-ball" at delivery. Ten years after being called at the MCG, he still suffers. Surely it's time to leave him alone and enjoy him.

I hate Melbournians >< If they were playing this in any other city, he'd be cheered. Maybe Sydney or Brisbane would have a go at him, but somehow I doubt it. Poor Murali~ ._. We're not all like Melbourne! Really!

aussie history

Uko and I have been talking about our respective country's history, as ya do, and you know what? Australia's sucks =D I already knew this, of course, having studied various bits of it throughout my schooling years, but when she was going on about kings killing each other, sexing up their sisters and other relatives and blowing up France innumerable times, it made me realise it all the more.

Australia's history? Boring as all hell. First, there were Aboriginal people for about 50-odd thousand years. Then various white people, including the Dutch and I think the Frenchies found us, but it was only the Pommies who decided it'd make a nice prison. So they rocked up in Sydney in 1788, bumped off a lot of Aboriginal people and dragged over a lot of convicts and started the stereotype that the Pommies will still not let go.

So! One smart bloke called William Light said, "To hell with this stereotype! I'm making a FREE STATE! Where no convicts are allowed!" So in 1836 he did, and now we have that wonderful safe-haven called South Australia. Pommies still don't know this after a smidge under 200 years, so that didn't really work, but at least he tried =D

After that, it's a lot of blokes wandering through the desert and discovering Darwin and Uluru and places like that. Bourke and Wills, Stuart, people like that. Complete nutters. It's all desert and nothing's going to change that.

Then! There was one brief chance that these nutter explorers had to make Australian history just that little bit more exciting for the kiddies to study at school! A Pommy explorer, good ol' Matty Flinders, was pootling around Australia mapping the coastline at the same time as Frenchie explorer, Nicky Baudin. Their explorer boats/fleets/whateverthehelltheyhad met at Encounter Bay in South Australia, and in the great tradition of Frenchies and Pommies throughout the centuries, they swapped notes.

This one chance to make Aussie history interesting, blow each other up a bit, in South Aussie waters, no less, and they SWAPPED NOTES. Hence the Fleurieu Peninsula, which I still have to check the spelling for, and various other Frenchie names around SA, especially on Kangaroo Island.

The biggest war-y thing we've had is the Eureka Stockade, during the Victorian goldrush. It lasted ten minutes. WOO! And then Darwin got bombed by the Japanese in WWII. Obviously we fought in both world wars as well, but nothing acutally happened on Australian soil.

That's about it. History lessons were boring .-. All we ever studied of Australian history at school was the bloody Eureka Stockade, people wandering around in the desert discovering Darwin, and the stolen generation. Exciting stuff .-. Pommy history? So much more interesting ^^;