Author Archives: cmay

Coach says I’m real good, best kid in the neighbourhood

Oh American football. I don’t understand you at all. But you have marching bands and dancing girls, chants, half time shows by tiny little cheer leaders and football players from elementary schools, television screens that tell us when to cheer and when to be quiet, concession stands, a million varieties of Cal Poly t-shirts and [...]

Eucalypts and dry grass

California? Oh I’m sorry, you must be mistaken, I’ll be living in rural Victoria for the next eight months.

we’ve been on the run, driving in the sun, looking out for number one

I can say without a shadow of doubt that the most important thing I have learnt on my study abroad experience thus far is this: don’t take high strength sleeping tablets unless you’ve eaten something first. Before leaving for California my doctor was hesitant to prescribe me my sleeping tablet of choice because of horror [...]