Australia: Other First Impressions

• Clouds, who would believe the clouds could be so different
• Suspicion of anything new or different. These people can be remarkable closed minded. Had an interesting discussion with a young, asian, female, mine project manager who admitted she preferred to hire locals who new the mine vs the experienced overseas workers. To her credit she acknowledged that it was not great, but the risk seems to high to hire the unknown and somehow knowing the person had local knowledge was valued. Interesting. She believed her own position as a mine project manager was earned and not the result of anyone taking a "risk" on a person that did not fit the mold. Interesting, human nature everywhere.
  
• The postal systems that really works. Posted late today, gets there tomorrow morning, in Canada the same thing took 3 days.
• AFL, this is a great game, very entertaining
• Ageism, they appear to be trying to figure out issues of age that seem obvious to me.
  
• Carrots and Eggs. Carrots are refrigerated but the eggs on the the shelf next to the tins? Does that sound correct.
• Mrs or Miss or just Ms. I heard someone say that their doctor was irritated when a patient would not give her title. The doctor insisted that it was important her medical treatment, when pushed is suggested that it tells him if she is sexually active. What planet is this doctor from? How does it ask the men?