It is Sunday, April 3, 2006 about 10 PM (8 AM in Cleveland). I just got to the city of Mildura today. The real work has begun. Over the next 4 weeks the team I'm with will visit over 7 different locations. We'll give presentations to local civic leaders, receive tours of the community and particpate in job shadowing programs with professional in similar fields. I wrote my best friend Scott and told him I definately know what a Ambassador feels like! There was a ton of PR stuff today and lots of picture taking with local leaders. There was a lot of food too. My mom and a few other people will be happy to hear that I'll probably come back from this trip a few pounds heavier!
Here's a quick review on what's happened the last day or so. I think I've taken about 200 pictures so far. Melbourne was a great city to visit. The Australian Grand Prix was in town, so got to expereince a lot of the events and festivities. People think soccer fans are crazy, wow!
I got carded at the Crown Casino and lost $10 on roulette. My luck didn't change on another continent!
One of my teamates had contacts with people at the Melbourne Zoo and the Royal Botantical Gardens, so we got VIP tours of both. I have some amazing pictures of both. Talk about some amazing places. Once again Melbourne is beautiful, I can't wait to post some pictures.
There was a really interesting thing that happened here over the weekend. With it being Fall here in the southern hemisphere, we set the clocks foward an hour this morning. Back home in Cleveland set their clocks ahead an hour, so now I'll be 14 hours ahead versus 16. Thats weird. In 3 days I cross over to a new time zone in Australia, the time will be 30 minutees behind. Yes 30 minutes "behind", so by the end of the week and for almost the rest of the trip, I'll be 13.5 hours ahead of Cleveland time. Talk about different!
Thats all for now from Australain Wine and Citrus country. I'll post pics soon. Thank you everyone for your comments!
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