Mitt Liv I Oz

 

Mitt favorit quote fran den har texten av Ben Groundwater:

Forget nationhood and patriotism entirely, and just be a decent citizen of the world.

Las fran borjan - haller ni med?:

Australia is not the best country in the world ... there's no such thing.

     

Sorry proud Aussies, I don't get you. I don't agree with you. This is not just the Southern Cross-tattooed proud
Aussies I'm talking about, the VB drinkers watching footy in the bars of Kuta.

               

This is all the Australians who pronounce pride in their place of birth, who are the first to grab you in some foreign hostel and tell you what's so damn great about Straya.

                      

Where do you come from? It shouldn't matter. I don't get you. For some people, travelling far from home makes them increasingly proud of that place they left behind.

              

It sends them misty-eyed about gum trees and koalas, about beaches and bars, about what it means to be from that land.

             

They've never felt more Australian than when they're away from the country.

          

Advertisement That's fine if you feel that way, but I've always thought differently.

               

In fact, the more I travel the more I become convinced that the whole concept of nationality and nationhood is irrelevant.

             

Where do you come from? It shouldn't matter. I haven't been in Australia for four or five months now, and there are things I miss about home.

            

But I've also met so many great people from so many great places that I find it hard to maintain that I come from the best country in the world – or that anyone comes from the best country in the world. (Australians aren't alone in this patriotic belief.

            

As you travel around you realise that a lot of people, regardless of whether they're from Thailand or Turkmenistan, Britain or Bahrain, tend to think they come from the best place in the world. Go to Colombia, with all its well-publicised problems, and most locals will tell you they wouldn't dream of living anywhere else – this is the best country in the world. It seems like it's human nature to be proud of your patch.)

           

But what are we really so proud of? The dumb luck of having been born on a certain piece of land that then becomes "yours"? And what makes your country so much better than everyone else's – other than your familiarity with it? I dislike the whole concept of nationhood, the way people support their country like it's a football team playing in a grand final. Like we have to choose sides.

                

How much better would it be if we'd all stop taking pride in the little slices of the globe we happened to pop out in and starting just being citizens of the world? It might sound corny, but it could happen. We could ditch the parochialism and the patriotism and just treat other human beings as other human beings. I'm not preaching some naïve "opening of the floodgates" or the erasure of national borders.

                  

But as the world shrinks with budget travel and immigration and multi-culturalism and internet connectivity, when you can chat to an Iranian on Twitter or head down to your local Ghanaian place for dinner, we should all be becoming less patriotic, less concerned with coastlines and borders and where we came from, and more interested in the globe as a whole.

             

Forget being a proud Australian who comes from the best land of Earth. Forget zealously protecting your patch from "other" people trying to move in.

            

Forget grouping people by their country so you that you can tell everyone what Germans are like, or what Americans are like, or what Israelis are like. Forget nationhood and patriotism entirely, and just be a decent citizen of the world.

             

That's something you can be proud of. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/blogs/the-backpacker/why-im-not-a-proud-aussie-20130116-2cs1z.html#ixzz2IHRcBJQV</div>

 

 

Provade de har glittriga godingarna fran Jayson Brundson i outlet affaren igar for att se hur jumpsuiten sag ut med klackar till.

Visst var de fina? Kopte dem dock inte eftersom jag inte kunde ga i dem... (inte for att det har stoppat mig fran att kopa skyhoga klackar innan, men den har gangen gjorde det det. Kanske ett tecken pa att jag har blivit aldre och forstandigare? ;)

Jag o Andrea gick och kollade i affarer en stund efter lunchen igar och gick forbi en outlet affar i Darlinghurst som jag aldrig sett innan.

De hade massa fina klader med nedsatta priser och jag hittade den har sota jumpsuiten i bomullsspets fran New York market Jill Stuart.

Den satt jattebra och priset var nedsatt fran $800 (4800kr) till $100 (600kr) och jag ar ju en sucker for allt som ar pa rea.... sa jag kopte den. Den blir fin till sommaren med sandaler eller mina kilklackar och brunbranda ben.

Igar blev det forsenat fodelsedagsfirande for Andrea, som fyllde 32 i september.

Hon ville ga pa girl's picnic pa The Winery men av olika anledningar blev det inte av forrans igar.

Girls picnicen var ungefar som high tea, med ett glas bubbel och massa godsaker som kalkon miniburgare, sparris tarts, ost och kex, rodbetssallad, brownies, cupcakes och citronmarangs bakelser. Rekommenderas, perfekt for fodelsedagar eller mohippor.

Jattegott! Men det basta var inte maten utan en overraskning fran en van som avslojade att hon ar gravid! Hon och hennes man har forsokt i over tva ar sa det var basta nyheten pa lange! :)

 

For ett tag sedan fragade Johan som driver australienbloggen.se om jag kunde stalla upp pa en intervju.

Har ar resultatet.

Tack Johan for att jag fick vara med!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Australien forkortar garna ord och lagger istallet till ett o eller ie pa slutet.

Nagra vanliga uttryck:

• Bring a plate – when you are invited to a party and asked to 'bring a plate', this means to bring a dish of food to share with your host and other guests. Take the food to the party in any type of dish, not just a plate, and it is usually ready to serve. This is common for communal gatherings such as for school, work or a club. If you are unsure what to bring, you can ask the host;
• BYO – when an invitation to a party says 'BYO', this means 'bring your own' drink. If you do not drink alcohol, it is acceptable to bring juice, soft drink or soda, or water. Some restaurants are BYO. You can bring your own wine to these, although there is usually a charge for providing and cleaning glasses called 'corkage';
• Arvo – this is short for afternoon. 'Drop by this arvo,' means please come and visit this afternoon;
• Fortnight – this term describes a period of two weeks;
• Barbecue, BBQ or barbie – outdoor cooking, usually of meat or seafood over a grill or hotplate using gas or coals;
• Snag – the raw type sausages usually cooked at a barbecue. They can be made of pork, beef or chicken;
• Chook – means a chicken;
• Cuppa – a cup of tea or coffee 'Drop by this arvo for a cuppa' means please come and visit this afternoon for a cup of tea or coffee;
• Loo or dunny – these are slang terms for toilet. If you are a guest in someone's house for the first time, it is usually polite to ask permission to use his or her toilet;
• Fair dinkum – honest, the truth;
• To be crook – to be sick or ill;
• Flat out – to be very busy;
• Shout – to buy someone a drink. At a bar or a pub when a group of friends meet, it is usual for each person to 'shout a round', meaning buy everybody a drink;
• Bloke – a man. Sometimes if you ask for help, you may get be told to 'see that bloke over there'; and
• How ya goin? 'How are you going?' – means how are you, or how do you do?

Pa lordag blir det svensk julmarknad i Sydney, ska du dit?

Jag var dar med min syster forra aret och kom ihag nar vi tittade pa luciataget att jag tankte `tur att man har ett syskon har annars hade jag nog brustit ut i grat av hemlangtan'. Sa vi far se hur det gar detta aret, hor ni nagon som snyftar framfor Lucia-taget sa kan det vara jag... ;)

Swedish Church in Sydney:
Julmarknad and Advent service -
svenskt hantverk, hemslöjd, traditionella julsaker, böcker, godis och svensk mat.

Café och servering med julmat och godsaker.
Lotteri och barnaktiviteter.
Luciatåg i kyrkan kl 15.30

För information se hemsidan: svenskakyrkan.se/sydney

VÄLKOMNA!
Saturday
24 November 2012
11.00am Church Centre
96 Goulburn Street, Sydney
entrance from Nithsdale Lane and Martin Luther Church
90 Goulburn Street
Sydney