Dingo bucks

I have finally passed through the 'intense stress' phase of this journey. Or at least through the pre-arrival intense stress phase. I'm sure there are more to come later. I'm finally experiencing the excitement that people have been asking me about for months. It's nice to finally share in the excitement when people ask me about the trip, rather than staring at them with a stunned look on my face.

A couple of big administrative pieces have fallen into place. That plus the increase in communication from Monash about events and orientations has finally helped me realize that not only are we moving to Australia, but I'm doing a PhD. I kept forgetting about the PhD part in the early planning phases.

I'm not sure if this helps or hinders the excitement, but our apartment has finally hit the 'these people are clearly moving' stage. Lots of the things on our walls have been taken down, we have half packed boxes everywhere, and there is an on going donation bag near the door. Justin has even started packing his suitcase.

In our preparations, Justin went to the bank to order some Australian dollars. Currency denominations isn't something you really think about until you have to engage with a currency that is very different from your own (I'm looking at you, Hungarian Forints. $1 CAD = 270 HUF). Unsurprisingly, Australian currency are very similar to Canadian. They even have different coloured bills and have discontinued their pennies. We assumed that because Australians are so into slang**, they would have fun names for their money, similar to loonies & twoonies. We were shocked when the Australian currency wiki page had no information about what they call their $1 and $2 dollar coins. Not wanting to let this opportunity go to waste, we have decided to can the $1 coin a Dingo buck, and the $2 coin a Double Dingo.

I think they are really going to love us down there.

**Australians are apparently really into slang. I know this because as an international student I have had numerous resources directed at me that address Australian slang, how Australians use the english language, and common Australian-specific phrases. I'm talking whole pdf documents and YouTube videos that help international students deal with this.

Flour update:

AP flour:

Starting weight (SW): 4.272 kgs

Previous weight (PW): 3.189 kgs

Current weight (CW): 2.013 kgs (-53%)

Bread flour:

SW: 1.245 kgs

PW: 0.931 kgs

CW: 0.330 kgs (-73%)

Cake flour:

SW: 1.951 kgs

PW: 1.951 kgs

CW: 1.442 kgs (-26%)