Hey, so today was pretty boring. The city of Canberra is not only very cold right now (40s), there's not much to do. The students at the University of Canberra are on winter break, so there don't seem to be a lot of people around either. My friends and I decided we would take a bus to see a war memorial, but never got there. Somehow we ended up at an outlet mall and went shopping instead.
Later that night we played pool and ping pong with some boxers that are here to help the Olympians train. They were young, just out of high school, if that. They explained that in Australia there aren't really sports in college or uni, which is what they call it here. When you're done with high school you either begin working, go to uni, or in some rare cases train to be an elite athlete through clubs and places like the AIS. They also said that going to uni is not as expected as it is in the United States. The kids I talked to train to be elite athletes and have full time jobs.
College is also different here, in the fact that its essentially free to attend. You pay it back later through a fee that is built into your taxes after you graduate and have a fulltime job.
Well, that's about all for now. I'll try to think of more interesting things I've learned while over here :)
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