Life at the ANU and in Australia

~You can see students playing rugby and Australian rules football all the time throughout campus.
~There’s a licensed student-run bar in my residence hall.
~Single rooms are surprisingly spacious!
~Students wear gowns fairly frequently for special occasions (I’ll get my own soon).
~Internet is a pay as you go service. We pay a rate of $1 per 100 megabytes of information. This means that streaming/downloading music and video make internet use very expensive. For instance, I’m going to avoid using youtube if I can help it.
~Electronics seem to be cheaper here than in the U.S., but other conventional things are more expensive.
~Most stores, restaurants, and shopping centers close around 4 or 5PM. I was walking around Canberra’s central mall/shopping center around 5PM and all the shops and dept. stores were closed.