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Originally this blog was about my student exchange to Montreal and North America (and later, south and cental america). This was the 'chaos land' of the title. However, once overseas I soon realised that Australia (and especially Sydney) was the real chaos land, -I would monitor Australian news with increasing feelings of trepidation, in reaction to all the huge and worrying political changes Australia is going through, eg industrial relations laws. So this blog is dedicated to trying to understand the chaos of this world, to find its beauty, and to direct its energy to something good and life affirming.
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So I spent Christmas with the family of a friend, Amanda, from McGill, in rural Pennsylvania. It was great... her family is big like mine...
When we were driving back to Harrisburg bus depot, I had this short exchange with her dad on global warming:
me: "I just saw a frozen pond back there- could you skate on that?" (that would be so exciting).
him: "Yes- When I was a kid I lived 40 miles north of here- and the ponds were frozen September through March. Now you are lucky if you can skate for a week in December, through to February. It's global warming all right."
* Americans seem to worry about each other a lot- It is how they show that they care about eachother. Amanda was discouraged from driving me to Harrisburg because it would cut through a dangerous (crime-full) area, where she is not that sure of the road. DRIVING through a dangerous area??? I can't get over that- I can understand fear about WALKING though an area, but not DRIVING...
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