Boxing Day

Today is the Boxing day, it's my first time to hear that, because we don't have this holiday. Therefore it was fascinated to look forward to waiting for.

From yesterday, we had a party in my sharehouse. Before then, we went to the city and bought some ingredients. I found a circumstance which there were a few people in the city. Almost people in the city who were Asians or people from other countries. It's just like Chinese New Year Eve. Everybody would go back home with their families. Particularly when I went to a Pub, a block lady chatted with us and asked that why we weren't with our families. After she knowed we were overseas students, she invited us to her house and ate lunch, becsue she felt we were poor. For this reason, I know how important on this holiday.

Brisbane, it's just like a dead town at Christmas. Everything was closed. Strange for us, for instance, it would be hilarious on Christmas in Taiwan. Every shopping mall would be open whole day, 24 hours. You could find many shows outside and wouldn't feel bored. It's very similar to Korea and Japan. Sometimes I feel Aussie not really want to earn the money, because the welfare is too good to work hard. I can't understand and it's piece of cake for Asian businessman defeat Aussie. Whatever, it's culture for this country. By the way, we visited a church which took place Mass. However, We were walking home by one hour, because we missed the bus.==

In the Boxing Day, many people went shopping in the city. I was astonished to see that was completely distinct to yesterday. I was difficult to move on in the shopping mall, moreover everything was on sale, because it's Boxing Day, I think. Why do they call the Boxing Day? From the word, they would open their presents on Boxing Day. By the way, I know this day because a Hong Kong girl, Hong Kong was belonged Britain before, they still have some customs there. We felt excited to this, not about this specific day, everything was on sale, especially food. You know, the price in here is more expensive than the U.S.A., that lets us feel sucks.

However, we went shopping whole day, other people were crazy for clothes, accessories and so on. I will feel extravagant and guilty, if I buy one of them. When I buy something, I will assess it's practical or not and control my expenses. I think it's really easy to earn the money from women. There were tens of thousands women in the department stores and boutiques. They were filled in there.== God...... I hope I can pass the exam as fast as I can, that's why I am here, I will remind myself of studying hard every day. Godspeed.