I caught the bus from Adelaide to Melbourne yesterday. Twelve hours of road.
I sent text messages to my parents and boyfriend as we passed through towns. These are my text messages from Australia:
(Disclaimer: I've edited them a little, mostly the phrasing because its a bit hard to get phrasing right in a text message. By the way, these are so very, very tiny, very remote Australian towns. Don't think they are all like this.)
St Arnaud:
Garden ornaments lurk beneath heavily pruned rosebushes
An Australian flag above
Nationalism flutters beside hotel vacancy signs
Rupanyup:
Mint green houses
Verandas collapse
Flatness stretches to the horizon
Murtoa:
Churches best suited to congregations of fifteen or less
A terrier waits at the bus stop scratching her fleas
As we snail past
Dimboola:
Houses are short here
None dare rise far from the ground
Except the hotel
It is missing its roof
The roadhouse is called Desert Edge
It is telling the truth
Nhill:
Old men on their bench
Watch our sunlit toilet parade
The highway:
Cars gather in front yards to die rusty deaths
Ennui walks the streets in plain sight
-
Mood:
Neutral -
Listening to: 60s pop
-
Reading: Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid
-
Watching: Dr Who
-
Playing: Lego Starwars
-
Eating: Too much good bread
-
Drinking: Orange juice
Hope you enjoyed your stay here !
Best of luck with your thesis! What's it on?
My thesis is about numerical approaches to simulate shark skin flow in order to implement cavitation mitigation methods... a bit not engaging at first sight but actually pretty colorful and easy to understand.
But I'm glad you're enjoying it! Was your under-grad in maths or something more zoological?
And yes and no. My "undergrad" was in France, so we did a lot of maths, but also physics, etc etc to get a "Bachelor's degree in Engineering Sciences". Basically means that we're acquainted with all the science techniques relevant to engineering (including maths, CFD... and bio-mimicry. ). So nothing too zoological, but heaps of personal experience !