Calling Sydney

Right, it’s christmas today! :) It’s kind of difficult to develop the right mood for christmas, when it has 20+ degrees outside. Nevertheless, Australians are as enthusiastic about christmas as the rest of the world. During the last days, there were as many people on the streets, doing their last-minute christmas shopping, as you’d expect. There are also christmas trees everywhere in town, though they’re made of plastic, which adds to the awkward taste, like a Disney-version of christmas or so.

In fact, some Australians seem to be even more serious about the seasonal celebrations than people back at home. Most busses are covered with christmas decorations, some bus drivers even wear christmas hats, and people are singing christmas songs in the busses and trains. Last Saturday night in Kings Cross there was a car passing by, decorated like it was taking part in a who-has-the-best-christmas-decoration competition, as we know it from american television (could have been from “Hör mal wer da hämmert”). It was really difficult to recogize the car itself below all these decorations.

My initial plans to spend christmas day at the beach doesn’t seem to work out, since it’s been cloudy all morning and the sky doesn’t look like the weather would change soon. Damn, again I won’t get to see the beach.