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I’m not cut out for this. “You can do this, you’ll pull through…” I keep reharsing while declaring my dorm room a natural disaster area. I’m stuck with 3 Kiwi kids on a working holiday that have been in that room for a month and a half with their stuff hanging all over the place, [...]

Bad weather continues and has had an effect on us both as this is not how we were planning to spend our last week together. To make matters worse, coming back from our one day tour to Green Mountains outside Brisbane we got a message that due to some misunderstanding regarding our reservation the hotel [...]

(forgive me father, for I have sinned. It’s been 6 days since my last confession)
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It’s strange. There are times when my partner goes off to pursue various religion ventures and I have some free time for myself. Up till now, it has never done me good as my mind starts racing, my thoughts began to [...]

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It takes a while to get the hang of how things work around here and how people think. At first, it all looks very naïve, and you’re not sure if people are really naïve or just playing along in some great cynical game that everybody knows about. What is this place?
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Ooo… I’m in trouble. ‘Good’ trouble, one might say (with some really bad English). After seeing Melbourne and now staying in Sydney it’s time to face the scary fact that I like it here. Everything looks amazing – as if someone asked me what I would expect from a big western city and then went [...]

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Babbale, aime-sha-esin, shlek. I was standing there, astonished, staring at what’s going on with utter disbelief. The images were registering the nuero pathways but the brain had trouble translating that into understanding. Here, in the heart of Melbourne Australia lies an ultra religious Bnei Brak with Hebrew and Iddish showing everywhere. London’s Golder’s Green and [...]

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(I think I just woke up everybody with my Shana Tova SMSing)
It’s going to be ‘interesting’ with the Jewish community at Rosh Hashana the next couple of days as we move to a more Jewish neighberhood and are invited to the Felmans tonight. I think I’ll let my dad handle all that as I escape [...]

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It is now clear to me that my long sit downs at the internet for 0.2$ an hour at the far east will not be continued through out my Australian journey as internet costs here reach 4-5$ per hour. So, it will usually be brief, if any.
Everything is so different here that I sometimes feel [...]