sábado, 26 de enero de 2013

A great unknown

 You are bound to know this image and yet, there is so little we know about it. The 26th of January is a red-letter day for them. Speak up magazine 329 publishes an article you might enjoy.
 


2 comentarios:

Roma dijo...

I looooove koalas!!!! Ok, and now off to read and listen as the teacher told us to ;)

Christatos dijo...

Hi there!
We are Rocío and Marcos, two Spanish people that we are living for four months on the Gold Coast (or in Gold Coast, depending on "the" because of "Coast"), a beautiful amazing city at the east of Australia, very close to Brisbane city, on the border between Queensland and New South Wales (the two Australian's eastern estates). We have come here to learn English (we need improve it a lot... we know...) and looking for a new life, new experiences... We can say that, at the moment, we are really, really happy about the decision we took. Australian people are awesome: easy-going, happy, helpful, kind, talkative, laid-back... people that know how to enjoy their life (to be honest, I should include they love beer and was surprising for me realised that here are heaps of differents sort of brands, tastes and wonderful home-made beers...). The Gold Coast is a "small" city which is plenty of Japanesse people, Brazilian (yes, lots of them!), New Zealanders and, now, day by day, more Spanish people (in four months the Spanish population in Australia has been terrify rised! when we got here we were almost the only Spanish people here and, in fact, not too much European people... but now we have known people from Belgium, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Italy, England... I must to say that particulary this fact is the best when you are living overseas: people you meet is your family where ever you are).
The Australia day this year had been really hard because of the weather: we have had a public holiday day... a "long weekend" as the Aussie people usually call this kind of weekends, but actually all the people have been a litte worried and scaried because of the wild weather had hit us (a tyfon, which is rare here such southern place...).
Austraia celebrates that day because was the date when the first fleet arrived here, in Australia, with prisioners (in fact Australia was founded by convicted, whores [sorry for the word... but it's true], rapers and other kind of people that England sent here as a overseas penal...).
Aussie people are really strange sometimes: they are a rare mix between American (USA) and British people... they are much more polite than American, more kind and easy-going (specially than British people...), but they have very curious British things as, for example, say "thank you" always when another person gives you a service (for example when you get off the bus you always should say "thank you" to the bus driver or otherwise you can receive a very sarcastic shout "you are wellcome!"...).
Anyway, I think the experience is so nice, the people are awesome and the country is just starting to walk so it's plenty of oportunities.
I hope my English mistakes will be nice to you and you learn a bit with it!
See you!!
P.S: yes, I have seen koalas, kangaroos, Tasmanian devil and lots of different birds, plants and mammals... so strange!