GO AUSTRALIA!!!!

Excellent performance Socceroos!
Australia - Japan 3-1, we went to see
the match yesterday night at the Star City
Casino..a very, very entertaining match
and the reaction here was just HUGE..

So indeed, the World Cup started and
as Australia is in the game for the first
time in 32 years, people here are quite
into soccer at the moment :) Big screens
in every bar, nook and cranny,
"GO SOCCEROOS" - posters everywhere,
"Every Match, Every Goal, Every Replay"
bars here and there..few sports bars
like Cheers are open until early morning,
showing the games all night. And when
the Socceroos are playing, everybody stops
and supports :)

The Star City Casino Showroom was
just packed, luckily we managed to
get a good table from where we
watched the game..Japan scored
the first goal (a controversial
goal at the very least, the
goalkeeper was pushed!), and
then no goals before the last 10 minutes
and Australia scored three times!
You can just imagine how the crowd went
wild :) Two goals by Cahill and one
by Aloisi, substitutes both of them..
As we were walking back home the whole
length of George Street was in total CHAOS :D
Every car honking their horns, people dancing on
the streets, flags, drums, banners,
supportersongs blazing everywhere..:)
Have to hand it to them, the Aussies sure
know how to be proud of their boys abroad! :)

As the exams are quite near now, tomorrow
to be specific and the day after, my days
have mostly gone by sitting at home studying.
I wake up in the morning around 11am, start
studying, study until 6-7pm, do something
(these past few days been watching soccer
or having dinners with friends),
go to bed around 2-3am and next day do
it all over again :) I'm struggling with
myself at the moment, whether or not
I should study just a bit more
for tomorrow or not, I've made a little
bulletpoint card with basically
all the stuff I need tomorrow, and
mostly remember it by heart..but you
can never be too prepared right? :)

Saturday and Sunday were a welcome
change though, as there was a big
Jazz Festival in Darling Harbour!
Lots of local and international acts,
James Morrison, Marcia Hines,
The Blues Brothers Show..:) I had a
day off from studying on Saturday
and we went to DH with Cristy and
her friend Fiona to listen to some
of the bands. The original plan
was to study in the evening but
somehow we ended up in Homebush,
watching a rugby league match
with South Sydney Rabbitohs and
Brisbane Broncos, got free tickets
from Cristy's friend and even saw
Russel Crowe there! (I think he
owns a part of the Rabbitohs..)
So that was a welcome change, all in all.
Sunday evening we went to see the
James Morrison gig at Darling Harbour and
the fireworks..I just have to say,
you should have been there! Lots and lots
of people just sitting around the harbourside,
listening to feel-good flowing jazz,
the stage was floating in the harbour,
shaped like a shell, the sun set around 5.30
when the gig started, the fireworks
at 7.30 with the band playing their best..:)
Awesome, relaxing experience.