First Day of Work in Australia

I went in to the project office for a few hours last week. However, today was my first full day on the project. I took the train downtown which takes about 30 minutes from here. There is a station about 2 minutes from the office.

In general people here are very well dressed. Most men wear ties and dress pants if not full suits. Schools here all seem to have uniforms so even the kids are pretty well dressed. I'm starting to get the feeling that things here are much closer to England/Europe than to North America.

Work today was a full day presentation given to Aussie Post that included a mock up of Event Manager. It was a bit dry but it was useful to get a feeling for what the Aussie Post people are like. Strangely enough despite the fact that they are half a world away from CanadaPost and the names and faces are all different there seemed to be the same cast of charaters. Kind of like an episode of Seinfeld or something...there was the guy who knew everything about everything who asked all the inteligent question, then there was the guy who asked all the nit picky questions trying to prove he was the smartest guy in the room, there was the older women who did all the jobs no one else wanted to do, etc.

I had a good discussion about Aussie rules football with a guy from work today. Seems there are mens leagues around and its not uncommon for foreigners to give it a shot. I'll have to investigate that some more and see if I can't try it out.

Mel took the kids to an indoor playground today. By all accounts it was great place. Not so much indoor playgournd structures as a giant room with lots of inflatable bouncy object to climb and bounce on.

We checked out a house tonight in Bentleigh. It was pretty nice and a good price. not sure if we should take the first one we see though...have to talk to our relocationist and see what she thinks about it.

Also went to the bank and opened a new bank account with ANZ after work. You can get debit cards here that also work like visa cards but without credit. Basically it lets you use your debit card anywhere they accept visa. Seems like a good idea to me, not sure why we don't have that in Canada yet.

I think thats all for today...I'll try and update the previous posts some more tonight if I don't fall asleep first.