The posts are coming thick and fast cause right now there's not a lot to do before school starts. Thanks to everyone who's already written me an email, it's so nice to to feel totally disconnected. I haven't been able to use the phone yet, can't seem to connect to australia.
Today I feel much better after having slept most of yesterday and until 4am today. More people are arriving on base. I'm having a lot of fun playing texas hold-em with crayons and just chilling out. I need to learn to drive a manual here - the only other driver for this side of the road is Matt, an Aussie still on his P's, though he's driving anyway.
We have some required reading, one of them is a book called 'foreign to familiar'. It's basically about culture clashes. It generalises and divides the world up into 'cold' climate culture- people who are task-oriented, individual rights focused and privacy respecting (US, Aust, North Europe), and 'hot' climate cultures - relationship focused, group focused and without need for 'personal space' (Asia, Indigenous cultures, Africa). It'll be interesting if this book is right, since nearly everyone on team is 'cold' cultured while South Africa is 'hot' although there is a lot of western influence here.
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