Here in Australia they talk about American Politics almost as much as they do Australian politics. They discuss how inept the Americans are and how much they dislike there policy, although Australian policy is as conservative and right in line with American politics if you ask me. Anyways, there was an article about Guantanomo Bay which is not a rare occurance. They think that it should be shut down, expecially because there is an AUstralian prisoner whom the public feels has been ostricized. Regardless, in todays article they discussed how the most sought after book in the library at Guantanomo Bay is Harry Potter, there were 91 dental fillings last year and they enjoyed watching the World Cup. Can someone please explain to me why in a newspaper which is oh I don't know 10000 miles away would they right about such inconsequential information. The only thing that the article in question says is that the prisonners read at a low grade level, they have bad teeth and they enjoy watching soccer. If you ask me none of this information comes as surprising, nor hould it be written about in a newspaper in a different continent.

THINGS I LIKE THIS WEEK

• Weather is getting nicer here
• Ran a 12km race with 26,000 of my closest Australian friends

THINGS I DO NOT LIKE THS WEEK

• I wrote a blog entry last week and it did not post properly, which is very annoying.
• Things happen in 3's, sp Holly getting sick, Dorothy falling and Cam getting hit by a car should be the end of the Lauder unluck.

Donuts

I just got back from the grocery store... the same grocery store, which sold the tastiest donuts for only $1.25. Well the damn sheep farmers who own the grocery store (I've come to the conclusion that every Australian is a sheep farmer in form or another) raised the price of said donuts to $1.89!! I bloody 35% mark up. I will not be buying donuts at the sheep farmers grocery store any longer.

DAMN SNAKES!!

Howdy

I'm going to miss Ander Agassi! There are very few athletes that have captivated me enough, that if I see them on t.v. I got make a pot of coffee because I'm going to be there for the long haul. I didn't get the chance to watch his last few mathces unfortunately because they weren't on t.v. here in Adelaide (or not on farmer vision). I had to live vicariously through articles posted on the web about how he matured as an athlete blah blah blah...

I liked Andre Agassi when he was that punk kid with jean shorts, long hair and god awful multi-coloured shirts that can only be seen in the 80's and I liked him even more when he went from being the best-to one of the worst and than back to being the best. My last memory of watching Andre Agassi is going to be sitting in a communal t.v. room in a crappy melbourne hotel with a hand full of sketchy characters. It was 1 or 2 in the morning and Erin and I had decided to stay up to watch the match. The Australian announcers kept reminding us over and over that as soon as the Lewitt Hewton match began they would switch over (had to watch their Australian boy even though hes an ass). We watched Agassi battle Nadal in the first set which went to a tie breaker and was eventually won by Nadal, but I like having that as the last memory I will have of Agassi because it showed how he battles and became the champion he is, but also how he aged and was vulnurable to the younger generation.

I had the misfortune of witnissingthe most menacing spider I have even seen in my life the other day. I went to lay down in bed and saw something in the corner of the room. Upon further inspection I saw the Barry Bonds of spiders. He was about the size of a quarter, but it was the thinkness of the spider that was eye catching. His body and legs were not your typical Winnipeg spider, but despite the physical attributes of the sider it was no match for my Educational Psychology textbook, which smoothered it across the wall. The nexttime I encounter a spider like this I have to figure out a different killing technique because the thickness of the spider also brought more guts to be smoothered, so after seeing the casualties I realized that I made a mess all over the wall. If I were living at home MArilyn would not approve.

I normally enjoy taking the train, but not so much lately. Currently the equivalent of the Red River Ex. is going on and the first train I take to school stops at the fair. The people going to the fair are the same group of people who would go to the Ex back home... people who can't control their kids, so every morning and afternoon I'm sitting in a box full of a 100 or so people with 20-30 of them scream and crying. By the end of the week my nerves were fried and I have decided that maybe I shouldn't be a teacher if thats what I have to look forward to.

THINGS I LIKE THIS WEEK

• Only one more week till spring break.
• Start of the NFL season

THINGS I DON'T LIKE THIS WEEK

• Guy sitting across from me on the train doesn't wear his sun glasses the whole trip, but when we pull into the train station he pulls his glasses on. Dude there is NO sun inthe train station.