quicko: internet billing

In Australia, you pay for your internet in terms of the amount you use, but in America you have unlimited amounts, you pay instead for the speed of the internet connection.

update: resuming your regularly scheduled program

Hey hey!  Well, guys, that concludes my whirlwind month of June.  It was a bit different from usual here on the blog and otherwise, but in real life it was absolutely amazing.  Sorry the posts didn't come till the end, but now starting in July I'll be back on track with regular American-Australian differences ... at least that's the plan!  And see -- you did get all those pictures I promised!  :)

quicko: cheers

I sent an email to a professional American the other day and thought nothing of signing it "Cheers" -- until after I pushed "send."

(It's a standard email sign-off here, maybe not the most formal, but acceptable and fairly widely used.)

Cheers!

quicko: computers

I haven't actually seen this yet, but my flatmate told me and she's a pretty reliable person: you can buy computers in department stores. Like Penneys or Dilliards or, good heavens, Macy's.

quicko: A4

They have a very odd way of specifying paper here. Instead of tackling the inches (8 1/2 by 11) or even, I am prepared to grant, the centimeters, they change the size (it's not 8 1/2 by 11) and call it ... you'll never guess, unless you read the title here ... A4. A3 is a bigger poster size, and A5 is smaller. There's some B-somethings, too, but I haven't quite figured out what they are yet.

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