Saturday night was the final game for the Aussie Rules Football season. It is an interesting sport played with a rugby ball on a cricket field. The game last night was played at the Sydney Cricket Grounds, about a mile away from where we live. The entire group of CAPA students (25!) decided to go to the game, so we wandered our way there about 20 minutes to game time, and managed to actually score seats together! We got seats right near the goal posts, right on the first level. Really great seats for the AU$14 that we paid for student tickets. The Sydney Swans were playing the Brisbane Lions and our team, the Swans, won by a hefty margin. The final score was 17.12 (114) to 6.7 (53). This means that the Swans scored 17 6-point goals and 12 1-point goals for a total of 114 points, where the Lions scored 6 6-point goals and 7 1-point goals.

I rather enjoyed myself at the game. It is an interesting combination of soccer, rugby, and American football. The game in played in four 30-minute quarters, with no breaks during the quarters. This makes for non stop action, unlike American football. If you’re ever in the neighborhood I encourage you to try and catch a game while you’re here.

Today (Sunday) I’ll be making my way out to my internship site, taking the train alone for the first time. The route seems pretty straight forward, I just want to get a feel of the trip and the walk the I have to take on the other side of the train ride. After that I need to do a little bit of grocery shopping to pick up some fresh veggies, rice, etc.

Have my internship interview tomorrow, and first day of class (Australian Cinema). I’ll let you know how they go.

I’ve got some pictures up now from Friday.

Saturday, August 30th, 2008 @ 8:38 pm Australia, Travels
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