"Arvo": slang for "afternoon." Aussies have a tendency to shorten words and drop syllables whenever possible.
Example: "See you this arvo!"
I woke up a hour early Wed morning to go to another waitressing interview. This time it's for a family-owned Italian restaurant. Whenever something gets labeled as "family-owned," I always imagine a small little shop tucked away in a corner somewhere. It's a dangerously misconceived notion, especially in this case. I was not expecting to see a fairly large-sized restaurant that had tables spilling into the street. The interview went fairly well and I'm to go in for a test trial on Friday evening (tomorrow). However, I can't help but feel a little guilty, because I lied and said that I had extensive waitressing experience. I can't help it though, because every waitressing job I came across required their applicant to have prior experience. Like Kimberly said, how can I have experience if the places I'm applying to won't even accept me? I'm sure the divine forces will forgive me for this one.
Later that day, I went on an excursion to the Melbourne Botanical Gardens for my Biology class. The diversity of bird species is amazing. Seriously, why can't California have these kinds of birds? All we have are a few pest species and maybe a bird of prey or two, but very very few with bright colors. Anyway, we completed field notes on as many species as we could find before we disbanded. I had to rush back to school for my next class and fight my way through "the Suits" for a space on the tram. The Suits are basically men and women who do work in business/commerce and wear nice full suits to work. Most of them are comprised of young men and women fresh out of Uni. Here in Australia, the majority of the students who graduate from the undergrad program go straight into their careers. I sat down next to a smartly dressed young woman and chatted her up. She turned out to be only 22 years old and already in the management position of human resources. 0_0 It makes me feel even less inclined to enter the real world.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Arvo
Posted by Camille at 3:59 AM
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2 comments:
seriously we don't have any cool birds. there's this one bluejay that makes all this noise in the backyard at the butt crack of dawn. and then we have these annoying huge black crows that sound like they're fighting over food. they're usually messing around in the front yard around sunset, just a huge flock of them gathered outside on the roads.
one of these days i want to see like a peacock strolling through the streets or something.
wow...you just chatted her up? cool.
and well, we have squirrels... squirrels with very beautiful bushy tails. you know you've spent too much time at college when you absent-mindedly chitter back at the squirrels outside your window.
arcadia has peacocks--don't those count as colorful birds??
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