AUSTRALIA help Please with this description?

Question

Ok I have a friend moving over to Australia from overseas & she has never been here before how do I describe things to her what Australia is like when she has never been here?

some of the questions she has asked is: weather, power outlets, ect. I need all the information I can get to tell her about Australia. Thanks for your help I only accept honest answers.

Answer 1

We get all four seasons in one day although the further north you are, the hotter it tends to be (although it is starting to cool down at the moment).

She will need to buy adapters for the power plugs, she can get them from electronic stores, supermarkets, bag stores, etc.

You might want to warn her about the rules we have, concerning water restrictions, etc. But don't scare her away, tell her how great it is here. Be sure to warn her about the dropbears though, nasty things they are.

And make sure she knows that yes we do have electricity here (some people don't actually know this!) and that we are a new world country, we're not third world. :\

Answer 2

The image of Australia most people overseas have is from endless Outback based TV - documentaries, Crocodile Dundee, Steve Irwin etc. They seem to expect Kangaroos, desert and dust. Maybe beaches and the reef. They never expect a bigger area of snow than Switzerland! And that 90% of the population lives in major cities,  surrounded by endless forests!

So, are they going to Sydney city, or Wup-Wup ?

London is probably more like Sydney than it is to some small UK country town., which is probably more like some small east coast farming community than the big city.

What most of our visitors (to Sydney mainly)seem to remember best is the laid back attitude, friendly people. The contrast between big cities, surrounded by endless seemingly empty bush. And the beaches. And that going anywhere else in Australia is a long, long way.

Answer 3

as for power outlets, you can buy the converters at price line etc for a couple of dollars each, weather depends on which state you are in, qld weather is very humid the further north you go and say s.a. is very dry heat, check out the net for some good sites for her to visit before she arrives so she has some idea

Answer 4

Where in Australia? For things like weather it changes dramatically, considering Australia is such a big country. Tell us where and I'll add some more details into this reply.

Oh and by the way, our power sockets look like this:

http://tuxgraphics.org/electronics/power...

Answer 5

it does depend a lot. Are you from here? You don't sound like you are is all as everyone knows the weather patterns here and the warmer states to the others I thought.

We run at 240 Volt power and adapters are very cheap from any travel  shop or d**k smith's.

No one can describe our country really as it depends where you are. If she is moving here surely she must know something about us or why would she come here of all places?

The love of field and coppice,

  Of green and shaded Lanes,

  Of ordered woods and gardens,

  Is running in your veins;

  Strong love of grey-blue distance,

  Brown streams and soft, dim skies -

  I know but cannot share it,

  My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,

  A land of sweeping plains,

  Of ragged mountain ranges,

  Of drought and flooding rains,

  I love her far horizons,

  I love her jewel sea,

  Her beauty and her terror -

  The wide brown land for me.

The tragic ring-barked forests

  Stark white beneath the moon,

  The sapphire-misted mountains,

  The hot gold hush of noon.

  Green tangle of the brushes

  Where lithe lianas coil,

  An orchids deck the tree-tops

  And ferns the crimson soil.

Core of my heart, my country!

  Her pitiless blue sky,

  When sick at heart around us

  We see the cattle die -

  But then the grey clouds gather

  And we can bless again

  The drumming of an army,

  The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!

  Land of the Rainbow Gold,

  For flood and fire and famine,

  She pays us back threefold;

  Over the thirsty paddocks,

  Watch, after many days,

  The filmy veil of greenness

  That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,

  A wilful, lavish land -

  All you who have not loved her,

  You will not understand -

  Though Earth holds many splendours,

  Wherever I may die,

  I know to what brown Country

  My homing thoughts will fly.