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It was hard for me when I was in Egypt and I was only there a total of a year. I can't even imagine what it's like for as long as you have been on this continent but then at least it's the same language.
posted by
Annicita
on February 1, 2023 at 3:04 PM
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I still call Australia home.
I suppose I always will. even though the country I know and love so well is disappearing.
I read Australian news on my telephone but not sure about who decides to post what yet. I haven't been reading it for long. There isn't ever much about Australia in the news over this way.
I think like the US they are becoming rather polarized or so it seems to me. Voices are getting angrier, loud talk of becoming a Republic now that the Queen is gone;there are signs of Antisemitism in Sydney, unheard of when I was living in Sydney.
I mostly lived in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney just South of the City Center and where Bondi beach is.The Eastern suburbs was where the Jewish people lived as well. I was nursing for some years in a large General Hospital and Many of my patients back then were Holocaust survivors. I could fill a book with their stories but I won't. people who are holocaust deniers should have seen the tattoos on their arms, listened to some of their life stories, seen how terrified they were as they came out of anesthesia!
But to finish on a happy note. Bondi beach is still a lovely place to swim and right now the weather is mid summer, and even if a storm is gathering, people are at the beaches!
posted by
Kabu
on January 27, 2023 at 1:04 PM
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The controversy reminds me every year in America with Columbus Day. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that everybody will be happy.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on January 27, 2023 at 8:29 AM
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I suppose we usually feel emotion about where we were born.
Cannot say much I think the pills are making me feel dizzy.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 27, 2023 at 1:53 AM
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Good Evening
Kabu, I always love reading your posts about Australia. It made me stop and think for a minute that I've never had a lamb chop. I'm also wondering what kind of sausages the kids eat while they are celebrating? It's snowing so hard here right now that it looks like a whiteout. It's freezing cold outside and if the snow continues the kids might have another snow day. I hope that you and Jim and Mr. Graysome have a good night. Stay warm!
posted by
Goldiec
on January 26, 2023 at 4:47 PM
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Now you've got me thinking... my thoughts I'll post elsewhere rather than invade your blogspace!
I am also thinking of the myriad ways I'd give myself away as American, visiting Australia!
posted by
Ciel
on January 26, 2023 at 4:21 PM
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Wouldn't it be a wonderful world if the originals and the newcomers
could work out a deal to share the place - both in Australia, as well as the Americas? There's room for all of us if we'd just be a bit more neighborly and accepting of one another.
posted by
Pat_B
on January 26, 2023 at 2:59 PM
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I don't know if I ever mentioned it to you or not, but you are the first and only person that I have "known" personally that was born and bread in Australia. I have, through the years really enjoyed the things you have written written about your life there, and continue to write about.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 26, 2023 at 1:51 PM
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Good afternoon
Fun times! I will remember not to ask for ketchup if I ever get the chance to visit and dine in the "land down under." Your comments about the aboriginal people reminds me of the song, "Beds Are Burning," which was a statement song about giving them their land back. You can both read about and hear the song by clicking on the link. I know that you love music, so you may well enjoy this. The video is an even bigger tell all. This is what the song is about: Midnight Oil's “Beds Are Burning” Lyrics Meaning - Song Meanings and Facts, and this is the video: https://youtu.be/ejorQVy3m8E
posted by
Sherri_G
on January 26, 2023 at 12:25 PM
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