Through the Eyes of a Wombat

Merry Christmas!

Im back in Australia, where its supposed to be stinking hot and dry. For some reason, its barely double-digit temperatures, and wet and windy! It even snowed on a mountain just out of Melbourne yesterday!

Still, its great to be back, great to see family again. There are still those whom I miss from Japan, but it will not be long at all until I am back in that world again. For now, though, its time to make the most of my holiday.

The thing that is the strangest, so far, is that I am having trouble adjusting to the hours of day in which it is daylight. It feels like about three in the afternoon ALL afternoon, for it doesnt start getting dark here until around quarter to nine at night. While in Japan, it gets dark around quarter to five, and by 5pm its as dark as midnight, I was absolutely astounded to glance at my watch yesterday afternoon at around 7pm, fully expecting it to be around 3 or half past, simply because of the amount of light outside.
Tonight, too, I didnt believe my watch saying it was 8pm - there was still enough light outside to make me believe it was 3pm.

Still, these extra hours of daylight are a good thing.

I'm heading off to bed soon - though I wont be sleeping fourteen hours, like I did last night.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a good night!