"catchy title"

St. Hallett GST

obligatory tourist photo

Log #4: friday, jan 13, the year 2012. Location, Adelaide southern australia.  I spent the day pretending to be a real grown up. I set up a bank account at ANZ bank parents. surprise, Death and taxes is an guarantee in australia as well, as I will be receiving a brand new tax code number from the australia government, thanks guys.  I also finally got my australian mobile number for 15 cents a min to call international and 20 cents to txt international, so just facebook me.  For all you budding hipsters still in denial, calling your phone a mobile is now worth 2 hipster points. I'm sure many of you have been think to yourself, maybe even out-loud in the last day or so, "I wonder what its like in Southern Australia". I'll tell you, If Great Britain and Southern California had a lovechild, its name would be Southern Australia, or probably just australia as a whole, my sample size is small.  However, its a more beach centric outdoor type english country. the weather is in the 80's, some humidity and a lot of sun. The ppl are all very friendly even if they drive on the wrong side of the road. other than that the only real difference is that in Australia they use a 1 and 2 dollar coin (no bills). My wallet quickly started to weigh me down, physically, not figuratively. I went by Adelaide university(dad, you will get a shirt later, the bookstore was elusive), spectacular looking place, lots of middle 19th century lecture halls near what seems to be the heart of adelaide, Rundle street. Rundle Street is a mall/street market/bar scene. You want a thneed, you can find it there. I found coopers alehouse. For those of you uncultured in Southern Australia things, Coopers is the beer of Southern Australia.  Its brewed here in town.  The beer was excellent, if your beer scale rangers somewhere from Miller/Fosters-Coors (Smith, J. A , And Fearless Friends, dec 2011, shitty beer tasting, the journey, Smith house, Costa Mesa, CA)  I did finally get to taste the wine from the winery in which i will be working. St Hallett. It was delicious, the one i tasted was an 07 and it was like a GSM blend dad but it was a GST, the movedre was replaced with a Touriga (one of the main port varietals). This was at the Australian national wine center, which is where they recently sequenced the brettanomyces genome, a big deal for wine.  We will see what the nightlife is like tonight, jet-lag caused that not to be a reality last night. and tomorrow who knows. The only last thing on my to do list is to find a bicycle, which is proving to be a little harder than I want it to be. Wish me luck.