Jones, Jarret

Hi 呀！ Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their Thanksgiving break! Australia does not celebrate Thanksgiving, but they do celebrate Black Friday haha. Black Friday was a big thing here! They had a full on super car race! And all sorts of things going on! Thanksgiving Day in Australia was rainy and cloudy, but the rest of the week was hot and sunny! It is starting to heat up over here!  Fun Australian things! -Phone numbers in Australia are weird. Instead of a set of numbers like America  000-000-0000. It is the opposite and it is 0000-000-000. So it is flip flopped! Kinda funny!  -Chinese fractions are weird! To say ¼ you would say 4/1 in Chinese. It is so confusing especially when they say it in a conversation! It blows my mind sometimes.  -Australian football is just crazy! They have the craziest rules and they are religious with their football. I cannot figure out how the game works yet! However, “Aussie rules football” thats what they call it is so big over...

-Lightbulbs in Australia are very convenient! I had to get up on a ladder this week to replace a light in our flat. It was a pleasant surprise when I found out that you don't screw lights in, but you plug the light bulbs in just like you put a plug in a wall. So much easier and faster than screwing a light bulb in.  -Can I just say that wow peanut butter here is just insane! It is made different! I had to stop buying peanut butter because I was eating wayyyy to much!  -Averaging like 10 hours a week on gospel library. -Ok here is a fun fact about Chinese. There is a word called wen. And there are three different tones for this one word. So if you say the tone differently it means a completely different word! The funny thing about this word is that wen with the fourth tone means question. But wen with the second tone means kiss. So if you ask “so do you have any questions for me” and you mess up the tone you will be saying “so do you want to kiss me?” I always make sure I have ...