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canberra - what a strange place.... it's a planned city. but clearly the planners weren't so creative. ALL the buildings are square (like awful 70s style square, not cool modernist square). OK, fair enuf. now, if they applied that squareness throughout, then at least it'd be easy to get around. BUT guess they got bored drawing all those straight lines so instead, they made every road curved. grrrrr..... think of suburbia and how it is to get around neighborhoods. dowtown is like this. grrrrrr.......I got lost everytime I went for a drive. (and here, 'getting lost' means a 5k detour around at least 5 massive roundabouts before you get back to where you started.)   grrrr..... .  the downtown is dead of people - even in the middle of the day. there's no garbage. I'm way underdressed. and I don't shop. it's bizarro-city - and SO different from asia!!!

but before I moan too much, around the edges are these parks full of the most amazing dirt running trails I've found since boulder. lucky me - I went running almost every day. THAT was sooooo needed. and since I got lost all the time in the car, why should I even bother to leave petros' flat....so while he worked during the day, I spent much-needed hours either online, running, or eating (still making up for those last weeks in thailand) - not a bad life. people kept asking 'did you see this museum, did you go to...'. yeah, yeah ummmm....I *might* get to that... but really I was so happy  just sitting in front of a computer. but I wasn't a complete slacker - I've also been making art for the http://www.30days30pieces.com site. check out what everyone's been up to. not surprised there's loads of good stuff being created.

with 2 days left, petros forced me to a museum by meeting me there for lunch, so I ended up seeing the war memorial and national art gallery. the exhibits really were top-quality - well produced and full of great information. and such an example of what a country can do without a corrupt government and where money actually goes to highlight national treasures (unlike peru (macchu picchu), cambodia (angkor wat), and any other 2nd world country with a major tourist attraction with shit for displays). this is something I wouldn't have appreciated a year ago.

thursday night we went out with a few of Ps co-workers. the thing I'm liking the most about life in aus (or london or pretty much anywhere in the wolrd besides the US) is that at any time, we're out with people from around the world: aus, newzealand, south africa, the UK, india, brazil, argentina, thailand, etc.  I like being surrounded by this mix. friday we packed everything up and petros said goodbye to both canberra and his job!

now we're BOTH happily unemployed but unhappily on a budget. but no worries. we have his car and 30 days to road trip around oz. first stop melbourne....

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