Australianna

Cultural sunday, sunshiny monday :)

2010. szeptember 6., hétfő 0:56 Bejegyezte: Anna

Ok, so on sunday I got to taste an extremely important part of the Australian culture:"Aussie rules" :) It reminds me to rugby, but of course as soon as I said this the guys looked at me in pure horror, because of course it is totally different!!!! ( I don´t care....men in tiny pants chase the same looking ball) So we drove to the olympic stadium where Sydney played against Melbourne. I expected this day to be a bit boring, but it turned out to be a really fascinating day! :) The atmosphere in the stadium was HUGE!!!!There were almost 50.000 people watching, cheering, screaming and it is a real family event!There was a family sitting around us with grandpa and baby as well, and the guys´s (David and Alex) spirit definitely made the game more colourful :D :D You hardly ever see men getting as emotional as on an "aussie rules" game here :D

Magyarul vasarnap az ausztral kultura egy roppant fontos osszetevojebol kaptam izelitot: "austalian rules" a jatek neve ami nekem teljesen olyannak tunik mint a rugby de mikor ezt kiejtettem a szamon akkor a sracok - David es Alex - teljesen kovemeredve neztek ram, hogy hogy mondhatok ilyet, mer termeszetesen ez egy teljesen mas jatek!!!!!Az olimpiai stadionba mentunk ahol a Sydney jatszott a Melbournnel es a hangulat abszolut fantasztikus volt!Ezek nagy csaladi esemenyek, es a minket korulvevo csalad mind a 20 tagja jelen volt, nagypapastol es 2 honapos bebistol egyutt. David es Alex szurkoloi elkotelezettsegenek hala, ritka erzelmes pillanatokat elhettunk at :P

The olympic stadium

Where else would I go in than in the members entry:)) / Termeszetesen a torzsszurkoloknak fenntarott es jobb helyekre vezeto kapun megyek be

Almost 50.000 people cheering / Majdnem 50.000 ember szurkol a csapatanak.Ez most elodonto volt, de Melbourneben annyira nepszeru ez a jatek, hogy egy sima meccsen legalabb 80.000 ember orjong

In halftime when the guys went for the 3rd 4 pack beercase / Felidonel amikor a sracok elindultak a 9-12. sorert...

So it was a very funny day, I enjoyed it a lot :D And today the sun was totally back again!!!! So before my lecture I went to several nice places around Sydney with my private tourguide :)

Szoval nagyon vicces volt a vasarnap, lehet hogy meg kimegyek mas meccsekre is :) Ma a nap teljesen visszatert, ugyhogy az eloadasom elott egy csomo jo, Sydney kornyeki helyre latogattam el a magan idegenvezetom segitsegevel :)

Cove point where captain Phillip first landed in Australia is a very sough after but still calm little beach and picnic place / Az elso patraszallas helye, ma egy roppant nepszeru de nyugodt kis strand es piknikezo hely

Alfred Hitchcock:The birs - those animals were seriously scary while I had lunch / siralyok komolyan kajara nyomulos tomege ebed kozben.....

Yes, you see it well, I´m standing right in front of the famous BONDI beach :D / Igen, jol latod, a hires Bondi beach elott allok :D

Yeeeeey :D

And girls!! At last but definitely not least!!! I found 2 possible specimen of the "HOTUS AUSTRALIANUS" ;)))

Lässig 50s style
VS
Bondi wave warrior :D

I promise that however tyring it may be, I keep on searching ;)

Peanut or poo...

2010. szeptember 4., szombat 18:21 Bejegyezte: Anna

Just to summarize the happenings of the last couple of days: I was on the uni, where we were looking at maps of hopistals and talking about "interdependency maps" :) . Now that means how the hospital in a catastrophic event depends on the external world and how others depend on the hospital. Anyways, I hope next week I can actually go to a site visit. On friday I went to the Sydney Acquarium, where I very sad thing happened. I somehow lost my very beloved and favorite scarf and called the acquarium a few times if they found it or anybody turned it in. But no, so now some stupid, stealing woman is running around with my great scarf!!!
So yesterdayI went to the Australian bush with Alex, this girl who does this research in the bush, her boyfriends parents, Lynda and Brian, a volunteer Daniel and me. The task was to pick up 40 little cameras from all over the bush, because Alex has put them there to see how these small animals react when they find the peanut what she put there. But she also put a cloth smelling of a bigger predator into the sandbox, where the peanut was, so she wanted to see, if they run away or still keep on eating when they smell this predator. So we had to pack the cameras away, and had to first pour the sand out of the plastic box and then collect the peanut into another small plasticbox.Now what we usually found was peanut and/or Australian bushrat poo :D! I would have never ever thought that I will once pick sandy, wet peanut out from bushrat poo in an Australian national park, but once you gotta try everything :D

Now it sounds gross, but it was a very funny day actually!! The team was great, Brian told me a lot about the bush and the bushfires and he kept on taking tons of photoes. At one point I made an attempt to get my camera back but he said it´s better if he keeps it because I might just wanna go here and there and climb up there and then come down there and he can then take fantastic action photoes :D :D :D !!He was soo funny! We had a little picnic on a rock overlooking a river and at the very last peanut or poo round we ended up at a waterfall :))))

Somehow this bushexperience turned out to be very intense because in the evening I fell asleep on the couch on the movie we rented out and tried to catch up with some info from David but he fell asleep too :D ( what a great movie we found :P ) althoug he only played golf..... :P

Magyarul:Mogyoro vagy kaka
Tegnap meglatogattam az ausztral videket a "bush"-t, vagy nevezzuk bokrosnak? :D nem tudom....
Mindegy, a lenyeg, hogy megbeszeltem, hogy a lany akivel megyek reggel 9kor felvesz.Namost en hajnalban 5kor arra ebredek, hogy kint tok nagy szel es esovihar tombol, es egy masodperc alatt eldontottem, hogy Alex megy ha akar, en aztan ki nem teszem a labam ilyen idoben, merthat erdekel hogy mit csinal o ott meg minden, de azert az erdeklodesemnek vannak hatarai ami az Ausztral kisemlosok elelemszerzesi szokasait illeti. De gondoltam, sima ugy ez, majd reggel fehivom.Igy is tettem, es mondtam, hogy en szivesen segitek, es egy kis eso nem gond, dehat ez valahogy megis mas....es nem is tudom....egyaltalan ez az idojaras alkalmas e arra hogy ott projekteljunk. De mondta, hogy ne izguljak, nem kell elhalasztanunk a dolgot, mert kesobb ki fog tisztulni....OK gondoltam, az uzenetem nyilvanvaloan nem erkezett meg :D
Szoval felvett 10kor es vegul volt o Alex, a baratjanak a szulei Lynda es Brian, egy onkentes Daniel meg en. A dolgunk az volt, hogy 40, Alex altal a bokrosban szanaszejjel kitelepitett kis kamerat osszeszedjunk, majd az alatta levo muanyagdobozbol a homokot kiontsuk, atszitaljuk es a megmaradt mogyorodarabkakat egy masik kis muanyagdobozkaba gyujtsuk, majd a homokot visszaontsuk az eredeti muanyagtaroloba. Namost amit a szitaban alatalaban talaltunk az foldimogyoro es/vagy "kis, Ausztral nemzetiparki bokorpatkany" (a szerk.) kaka volt, ami ugy nem kellett, csak a foldimogyoro. Az egesznek az volt a lenyege, hogy Alex lassa, hogy vajon ha ezek a lenyek megerzik egy ragadozo szagat a kaja kozeleben - tett a homokba egy rongyot amin azelott egy nagyobb kutya vagy macska fekudt - akkor tovabb esznek e vagy elmennek.
Hat nem gondoltam volna, hogy valaha is azott, homokos mogyorodarabkakat fogok bokorpatkanykaka kozul valogatni de egyszer mindent ki kell probalni :D :D
Alapjaban veve nagy vicces volt az egesz nap, nagyon jo fej volt mindenki, es Brian faradhatatlanul keszitette a kepeket. Egy ponton megkisereltem visszaszerezni tole a gepemet, de mondta, hogy jobb ha meg nala maradt mert majd a kovetkezo helyen fel tudunk menni ide meg oda, es itt felmaszni meg ott lejonni es akkor ott milyen fantasztikus "akciokepeket" fog o csinalni :D A egutolso kornel egy vizesehez ertunk ami nagyon szep latvany volt, ugyhogy megerte a faradozas :)
SZoval vicces es intenziv volt ez a bokorelmeny, ugyhogy este jol be is aludtam a kolcsonzott filmen es megprobaltam bepotolni az elvesztett jeleneteket David segitsegevel de kiderult hogy vele is hasonlo tortent (milyen jo filmet talaltun : P ) pedig o csak golfozott ugyhogy igazan kibirhatta volna.
Ma "aussie rules" rugby meccsre megyek delutan 3kor.....hat kivancsi leszek...

And the work beings....

2010. augusztus 31., kedd 20:17 Bejegyezte: Anna

Ok, so for those who actually started to think that I call 7 week long holidays as internship :P , I can tell, that things are on track :)

But before starting the hard work, I had to collect some extra energy ( and calories) and went to a place what will be worth to visit on a quite frequent base in the future. THE pencake house in the "Rocks" quarter of Sydney. They have absolutely fantastic pencakes which differs from ours in that they make these thick pencakes and then flavour the dough itself or add various delicious saouces or fruits. I met Gyongyi, who is a friend of a friend of mine and lives in Sydney for 4 years. She is half Hungairan and half Chinese and speaks perfect Hungarian.

So we decided to go for a chocolate pencake with chocolate sauce and ice cream and a lot of strawberries and for a creamy pencake with vanilia ice cream and caramel covered bananas. If anybody comes to Sydney definitely have to try these!!!!

On the way home on the ferry and the lights of Sydney Harbour...

Now let´s get finally serious here :)) Right now it seems that I will devide my remaining 6 weeks between the University of New South Wales ( from now on UNSW) and the Sydney University. The fortunate thing is that the projects what I can get involved in in these schools are very different. On the UNSW I will go to the faculty of built environment and help in 2 research prjects. One of them looks at how to build adaptable and flexible hospitals so that the buildings don´t have to be demolished ater 30 years and waste a lot of money with this plus building the new one. The other project focuses on that in Australia and New Zeeland they are pretty exposed to extreme weather conditions and in case of a serious flood or heatwave etc....what should hospitals do in order to maintain the main functions. I will probably stay for 3 weeks and will visit the research group 3 days a week, and on mondays I can sit into a lecture given by the deputy dean of the faculty of built environment, what is actually held for doctors and nurses about how to communicate with each other to aviod adverse events in hospitals. Fridays will probably be free :)

And then on Sydney University I will help in a research project about palliative care. They are more in the preparation phase when they recruit patients and have to narrow down literature.

So I guess it will be very useful to take part in 2 so different projects.

Other than that I will go to the bush on saturday!!!!

Magyarul azokat, akik mar kezdik azt hinni, hogy en altalaban egy 7 hetes vakaciot hivok gyakorlatnak, szeretnem megnyugtatni, ugyanis elkezdodott a komoly munka :)

Elotte azert meg feltankoltam extra energiat (es kaloriat) Sydney legtutibb palacsintazojaban!!!!Nem semmik a konbinaciok, nagyipalacsintazojafeeling kicsit elmarad, mert kedvesen kihozzak az asztalodhoz a kajat, valamint nem kell az egesz hely fule hallatara csongetned ha WC-re akarsz menni. Szoval itt Gyongyivel talalkoztam, aki Aliz baratnom baratnoje :) es felig magyar felig kinai, tokeletesen beszel magyarul. 4 eve el itt, es arra az egyetemre jar ahol a kov 3 hetet fogom tolteni.

Szoval most az az allas, hogy megosztom majd az idomet a New South Wales egyetem (tovabbiakban csak UNSW) es a Sydney egyetem kozott. A jo, hogy teljesen mas projekteken dolgoznak mindket helyen. A UNSW-en az epitett kornyezet karon leszek, ahol most 2 fo futo dolog van. Az egyik, hogy hogyan kene olyan korhazakat epiteni a jovoben, hogy ne kelljen azokat 30 ev mulva lebontani mert mar annyira nem lehet oket hasznalni. ( a magyar korhazak allapotarol egyik elotanulmanyban sem talaltam semmi informaciot, valoszinuleg mert nem gondoljak, hogy azokat az epuleteket meg nem alakitottak at muzeumma...)

Mindegy,a masik meg azzal foglalkozik, hogy termeszeti katasztrofak eseten hogyan is lehet tovabbmukodtetni a korhazat hogy az leheto legjobban ellass korabbi funkcioit. Megyek majd veluk "site visit" -re azaz a tanulmanyban szereplo korhazakat meglatogatni. 3 napot fogok valoszinu a kutatocsapattal lenni es hetfonkent meg egy eloadasra uthetek be amit ennek a karnak a fofofofofofigazgatoja tart.

A sydney egyetemen meg egy rakos betegeket gyogyito, hatekonyabb program kidolgozasan dolgoznak, ami meg elegge elokeszuleti fazisban van. Szoval erdekes lesz 2 ilyen nagyon kulonbozo szemszogbol tapasztalatot szerezni.

Itthon az van, hogy tegnap megismertem Annat, aki David huga es egyben teljes ellentete, mert Anna hangos, sokat beszel es nevet ugyhogy jo volt, hogy itt volt, mert igyy ketten tudtuk Davidet cukkolni ha! :D A hetvegen elmegyek vele bulizni, szoval igy valoszinuleg megismerek par uj embert, de egy megondolatlan pillanataban David is meghivott hogy jovo heten menjek vele valami ceges cuccra, mert annyit eszunk iszunk amennyit csak akarunk majd es mindent a ceg all. Nana hogy megyek. Addigra mar lehet hogy kulonbenis total ehezni fogunk, mert Annette es Berri ma lelep egy 3 hetes Europai vakaciora, es hogy ki fogja feltolteni a hutot meg mivel.....hat nem tudom :P

Naszoval ez a tenyallas per pillanat. Ja, szombaton a "bush"-ba megyek, ritka Ausztral kisallatokat megfigyelni reggel fel 7 kor...meg nem latom, hogy EN hogyan fogok odakeveredni ezen a hajnali oran, de mindenesetre megprobalom.

Megegy megjegyzes: errefele nem ritka jelenseg egy feher, elegge nagy, sarga csoru papagaj ami csak ugy viharzik szabadon a fak kozott es valosaggal uvoltozik!!!!

Shopping wonderland

2010. augusztus 28., szombat 6:46 Bejegyezte: Anna

You just gotta love Paddington!Free cookies, champaigne, hair and make up! :)) Oh yes, that´s what you get offered when you go there on saturdays when there is the Paddington market where young designers show their talent and not one of them got famous by starting from here

I was a bit reluctant to sit into the hair and make up artist´s chair, but the stereotype of the gay shop assistant made his best to encourage me :"C´mon girlfriend, you have to enjoy liiiiiife!" If he says so..... :D

There is a parade going on now, and the shops are beautiful! Here you find everything what is hippy, crazy, hand made and very creative!

From here I walked all the way down on Oxford street to the Queen Victoria building - it is opposite the town hall what is the absolute heart of the city - what is the most prominent shopping mall probably in whole Australia....just one thing: there is door-to-doot carpet on the floor....another thing:I will probably never buy anything there except for a sandwitch :D

Anyways, it was a long and great day, I took the ferry back home and then we had dinner on the beach.
Today I didn´t really plan anything special, but it still turned out to be a great day! I have explored a big part of Mosman what is simply undecribable.If I really have to, I would say it´s like " Beverly Hills meets the jungle meets the Hamptons" I will go back and take pictures.

Nappy time in Taronga Zoo

2010. augusztus 27., péntek 0:23 Bejegyezte: Anna

I went to Taronga Zoo today because it´s close, and it´s said to be the best zoo in Sydney. It´s situated right at the water so you can see the Sydney Harbour and the opera house basically from everywhere.Not even giraffes can block the view:)
However, living in Taronga zoo is an exhausting job. Almost everybody was sleeping when I arrived so for a while not much action was offered.

Ma a kozeli Taronga allatkertben voltam, mert kozel van, es mert azt mondjak ez a legjobb allatkert igazabol. Kozvetlenul a Sydney kikoto menten van ugyhogy mindenhonnan a city latszik amit meg a zsirafok sem tudnak eltakarni barmennyire is erolkodnek.Viszont a park lakoi valahogy nagyon be voltak ma faradva, legalabbis delutan 2ig barmerre mentem, mindenki csak aludt:

I´m not even sure, if he evert wakes up and gets sober.... /

Abban nem vagyok biztos, hogy az o eseteben beszelhetunk e vegleges felebredesrol es kijozanodasrol.....

Totally knocked out....

Teljes KO....

Not even Brasilian coffee could help here....

itt még a brazil kavé sem segitett....

" all I can take" sunbath sleep in pair....

orrverzesig napozasos alvas parban....

However, there is a gang which can not rest! A team of ready-for-action pinguins is planning the escape to Madagascar....

Azonban van egy bagazs, amelyik nem nyugszik!Mindenre elszant pingvinek csapata tervezi a szokest Madagaszkarra..." szukebb csatornat nem tudtunk talalni??!!"

Ferry, opera house, university - still no hot Aussie men...

2010. augusztus 26., csütörtök 0:52 Bejegyezte: Anna

The net is a bit tricky nowadays....I would really like to upload more pictures but I simply can not take it how long I have to wait for it!!Anyways, here you are:

Ok, I got the most important arranged: I have an aussie phone number!It was quite easy to get it and the rates are not bad either.For 31 dollar I got 150 dollar to talk with vodafone numbers ( I got that) and another 150 to talk to other mobile numbers, and text messages cost only 28 cents internationally!So that was a good deal I guess. I made a huge walk, I got lost in my neighbourhood, what turned out to be a tough excercise by the time I managed to find my way back to the house.
The evening was funny, cause we cooked dinner - Annette´s spicy chicken and caramelized chilli potato with fried cheese and rucola salad was really tasty - and then we were watching the top 20 Australian stars, who turned out to be not even Australians, or those who were Australians, are already dead....
Then this morning after breakfast

Annette drove me down to the Mosman harbour where I started my ferry trip.

The ferry passes by the opera house and it looks great!!!

I wanna see it in the evening too and want to shoot a series about the different light effects they started to show on it. So I will just take the ferry there and back some evenings, because I bought a weekly ticket for 41 dollars what is good for ferry, bus and train. And if you regard that one single bus ticket costs 3,3, it was a good deal. But you can also bargin with the bus drivers, at least I have done that, and yesterday I paid only 2 dolllars for the same rute :P
So from the ferry I changed to bus out to the University of New South Wales, see campus here:

I unfortunately forgot the names of half of the people whom I met, but except for Jane it seems that in the faculty of built environment,everybody comes from outside of Australia,so it´s a very international gang there.They showed me my future table :) I will go back there from next week, and will visit the Sydney University next monday.
In the afternoon I took another walk in the city, down to Hyde park, where a lot of people jog, and read but you can also listen to AC/DC played on an acustic guitar, what was really awsome! :))

BUT!I hope one thing will change soon, with time or with the weather season:I start to think that the hot, Australian hunk is only a photography phenomena!At least they don´t run around in the city, in Mosman either, on UNSW either - so I start to be worried here .... :P But I don´t give up girls! I try the bush in the weekend :D

Magyarul: Minden ok, vegre lett ausztral szamom! Reggeli utan, mikozben vegig el kellett szenvednem, hogy mast sem latok, csak az obol kek vizet es a palmafakat :P, Annette levitt a Mosman kikotobe ahonnan indul a komp!Lasd 2. kep.Azt hiszem, ezt az utat fogom valasztani, ha a New South Wales egyetemre akarok menni, ugyanis a komp az operahaz mellett megy el, es hat eleg kellemes latvany az!Majd parszor este is jovok megyek egyet a komppal, mert csinalni akarok kepeket az uj fenyeffektekrol amiket kivetetienek ra.

Szoval az egyetemen Jane-nel kivul nincs mas ausztral ott ahol en is leszek :). Egy csomo emberrel talalkoztam, megmutattak az asztalom stb....de holnap nem megyek vissza, hanem majd kedden. Hetfon a Sydney egyetemre megyek, hogy meglassam, ok mit csinalnak, es akkor valoszinu 2-2 hetet leszek itt is meg ott is, aztan meg van Annette munkahelye a Menzies Centre is, szoval lehet hogy ott is leszek 2 hetet, de ha valahol tobbet akarok maradni akkor maradok.A campus akkora, hogy Szombathely belvarosat nyugodtan belerakhajtuk!

Utana setaltam kicsit a cityben, hallgattam AC/DC-t akusztikus gitaron a Hyde Parkban, aztan voltam a Manly beachen, ami kozel van hozzank. Mint azt megtudtam, akinek nincs legalabb 10 millio dollarja az ne akarjon errefele tetot a feje fole.....

Na mindegy, szoval holnap folytatom a varosnezest es Jane lanya, aki amugy okologus es a kulonleges ausztral kisemlosoket vagy mindegy hogy mi, de ausztral kisallatokat tanulmanyoz, ki akar vinni a "bush"-ba, hogy en is megfigyeljem vele ezeket a ritka teremtmenyeket...hat jo, mondjuk oda valami reggel 5kor akar kimenni, szoval egyenlore nem latom meg a folyamatot, hogy EN hogyan fogok ott kikotni.....

Arrived

2010. augusztus 24., kedd 5:24 Bejegyezte: Anna

So the rest of the trip was quite nice and I got picked up on the airport because a couple of weeks ago I by accident met this Hungarian family living in Sydney and they were very happy that someone comes from Hungary, so they offered it to me from the very beginning that they come out and then show me around.
My neighbourhood is....well...judge it yourself :)) it´s very hilly here, the road goes up and down but eventually it goes down to a bay with the sailing boats and yachts. This is my room :) - with en-suite bathroom and garden view, and me at the Balmoral beach.

My "foster family" is pretty cool...Annette drove me around a bit but then she took off to Adelaide and I went for a walk, then Barrie the husband came home and cooked dinner. Now their son came home too, David, and they have a daughter Anna :) who doesn´t live here anymore.I meet the woman I met in Rotterdam on thursday, her name is Jane and probably we will talk it through then and on friday what I will do. Now the funny thing is that Annette and Barrie go for a littel shiptravel to Europe from next week, so does that mean that I will be home with......David??
Anyways, tomorrow I plan to get an Australian number and get some money out and buy a good book about Sydney. I have to see sth already in the weekend :)

Mosman

Magyarul: Szingapurbol mar megint minden remek volt, megint ablak mellett ultem es senki nem ult mellettem ugyhogy teljesen jol tudtam aludni. A lila falas a szobam, sajat furivel es az obolre nyilo kilatassal. Reggel Laci kijott elem mint megbeszeltuk es kicsit be is jott Annettehez is, mert Annette meg akarta hallgatni ezt a sztorit hogy hogyan ismertuk meg egymast.
Amint az a fenti kepekbol kiderul, hogy Laci megjegyzese, miszerint "oreg penz lakik itt arnyas lejtokon" nagyon jol megallja a helyet....
Kicsit korbekocsikaztunk miutan elment, de aztan Annette ma Adelaidbe ment, es mint megtudtam jovo heten meg par hetre Europaba utaznak a ferjevel, ami azt jelenti hogy Daviddel leszek itthon...mar amikor itthon van. O a fiuk, meg meg van egy lanyuk Anna aki mar nem lakik itt.
Lementem az obolbe a Balmoral strandra ahol egyesek kellemesen megmartoztak a jeghideg vizben, a nagy feher epulet regen oltozokabinhaz volt, most arra nincs szukseg mar, de jo draga etteremre igen :)
Holnap asszem veszek magamnak ausztral szamot meg nem artana nemi kp-re is szert tenni, bar Laci megvette tolem a forintom :D
Na mindegy, szoval csutortokon talalkozom Jane-nel es aztan remelem kiderul,hogy akkor mit is fogok csinalni :D